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The MAX IV Laboratory is a high-performance synchrotron laboratory which has been built with high ambitions to be energy efficient and mostly use energy from renewable resources. It recycles the excess heat via the district heating system in Lund and in return receives cooling water for the accelerator equipment. The facility was the first building to receive the classification BREEAM-SE.

Central Stockholm is the location of one of Europe’s largest district heating and cooling systems. Close to 90% of Stockholm’s buildings are connected to the district heating network.

The use of district heating/cooling for parked aircraft to reduce the carbon emissions at airports.

The City of Gothenburg in Sweden uses a district cooling system powered by the cool flows from Göta älv.

In the new city district Brunnshög in Lund the world’s largest LTDH network is being built. The network is based almost exclusively on fossil free surplus heat recovered from the MAX IV facility.

A rock chamber of 50,000 cubic meter was created in central Stockholm in 2010 for the storage of cold water, with the aim to reduce the peak load on energy production. The plant has helped to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 30,000 tonnes per year.

The Fossil-free Energy Districts project, FED – a unique local digital marketplace for electricity, heating and cooling at Johanneberg Science Park.

Gothenburg solves its energy challenges with a combination of previous initiatives and new technology. In Gothenburg, 90 per cent of the city’s apartment buildings are connected to the district heating network.

Hörneborgsverket, a biofuel based cogeneration plant, is the engine of Övik Energi’s energy production. Hörneborgsverket produce roughly three equal amounts of district heating, steam, and electricity. The steam is distributed to the neighbouring process industries – Domsjö Fabriker, AkzoNobel and SEKAB. Due to the industry’s need for steam, which is in demand throughout the entire year, the cogeneration plant is used to a greater extent, in comparison with power plants that only supply district heating, of which the demand fluctuates. A total of 99% of the fuels used at Höreborgsverket are renewable fuels.

Dåva CHP is one of the world’s most energy efficient and environmentally friendly plants with waste as its main fuel. Here we produce district heating and electricity from sorted waste and residues from the forest industry.

On the small island of Händelö, a part of the city of Norrköping in East Sweden, there is a remarkable induistrial symbiosis where the surplus from one company is used as an input to a neighbouring company. Everything is based on green energy!