Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
In Oskarshamn, on the southeast coast of Sweden, construction has started on the country’s first modern small nuclear power plant. Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Ebba Bush, took the symbolic first sod on 3 February 2025. Located in the […]
The Danish government has decided to put the planned construction of an island just for the production of renewable energy on hold. The island was planned 15 kilometres south of the strategically situated island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. […]
French energy company Oxan has won the bidding for a 900-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Latvia, the Latvian authorities announced on 23 January 2025. Named Saare 1, the offshore wind farm will be situated 60 kilometres (37 miles) […]
The world’s largest public fund, Norway’s Oljefundet, did very well in 2024. The value increased by almost EUR 340 billion (NOK 4,000) in a year time. In 2024, the Oil Fund had more than 11,000 investments in companies and projects […]
In about one month, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut themselves off from the Russian power grid, called BRELL. On February 8, the Baltic electricity operators will leave the Russian power supply, and join the European on the 9th, a year […]
Poland’s state oil and gas company Orlen has halted the construction of a billion dollar petrochemical refinery near Płock, blaming skyrocketing costs as the reason. The project called Olefin III was launched with a lot of noise by the previous […]
Once opened in 2026, it will be the biggest solar farm of the Baltics. In the third week of November, Sunly and the Metsagrupp jointly started construction of this 244-megawatt-farm, consisting of almost 350,000 solar panels. It is located near […]
In line with the pressing advice of the Swedish armed forces, the Swedish government blocks 13 of 14 planned offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. According to the defence ministry, wind turbines will block the country’s ability to detect […]
It is called Northern Lights, and it is Europe’s promise to reduce CO2 emissions by storing it under the sea of the coast of Norway. On 26 September, Northern Lights was officially opened, despite the sub-sea storage facility is not […]
LAST UPDATE JANUARY 2025 (original publication 10 September 2024) | Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer, is downsizing considerably. Seen as a promise for the future of electric mobility when it was founded in 2015, its CEO has now told staff […]
The first five pilots fully certified to fly electric aeroplanes have graduated at the Green Flight Academy in Skellefteå, Sweden, earlier this month. The quintet is the first class ever to leave a Scandinavian aviation school trained in fossil-free aviation. […]
On behalf of the Danish government, the Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen) has given Ineos the green light to start and expand its oil and natural gas extraction activities in the Hejre field, located in the Danish economic zone of the […]