Our bio-cogeneration plants in Brista and Värtaverket enter service in 1997 and 2016, respectively. This makes energy production at these sites entirely renewable or recycled, and enables us to shut down our coal-fired CHP plant and significantly reduce fossil carbon dioxide emissions. The use of district heating thereby has a substantially lower climate impact.

We start the development of our digital platform Intelligy to offer customised digital services. These services are designed to support customers’ targets of streamlining energy use to achieve cost efficiency and sustainability targets.

We shut down our Värtaverket coal boiler, thereby making our core production fossil-fuel free. Our fossil oil use is at a minimum, and only used as starting fuel and peak fuel cover in hot water boilers during exceptionally cold winters. Work to gradually replace fossil oil with bio-oil continues.

We dedicate our research facility to develop bio-CCS (Bio Energy Carbon Capture and Storage). We aim to build a full-scale plant able to capture 800,000 tons of biogenic carbon dioxide per year which will be stored permanently. The goal is to produce negative emissions on a large scale as from 2028.

We open a post-sorting plant in Brista with waste company SÖRAB. We sort residual waste by removing plastic and metal that is used for material recycling instead of combustion. The plant is a key part of our stated focus on reducing the proportion of fossil waste that comes to us and becomes emissions of carbon dioxide.

The EU Innovation Fund announces support of EUR 180 million for Stockholm Exergi’s bio-CSS project. We issue new green bonds for a total amount of SEK 1.5 billion the same year.

Together with Polar Capacity we establish our first battery park, with capacity of 25 MW. Battery parks are useful in solving a range of energy system challenges by, among other things, storing surplus renewable energy when production is high and releasing it to the grid when it is most needed.

We are granted a permit by the Land and Environment Court to build our large-scale plant for biogenic carbon capture and storage (bio-CCS). We sign certified permanent negative emissions agreements with Microsoft and Frontier the same year.

We aim to build a large-scale plant where we capture biogenic carbon dioxide from our Värtaverket bio power plant and transport it for permanent final storage. This bio-CCS technology, we will create permanent negative emissions, which according to the UN IPCC is necessary to keep average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. We offer companies that have done everything they can do to reduce emissions the opportunity to purchase negative emissions to counteract the emissions that they cannot address.

The ability to store energy is becoming increasingly important and we are working to establish battery parks in the Stockholm region. This will enable us to meet the demands of the electricity market and contribute to a more stable electricity system. We plan to build a new district heating accumulator to lower production costs during times of peak load in the district heating system, optimize electricity production and provide better security of supply. With an estimated capacity of around 2,700 MWh, the accumulator is scheduled to be in place by the late 2020s.

As the amount of residual waste decreases thanks to improved sorting we have greater capacity to manage more waste customers, and a larger share of our waste treatment service with energy recovery will be used to manage waste that cannot or should not be recycled. In the future, we will offer a waste management service with no net climate impact by using CCS technology to radically reduce fossil emissions and create negative emissions from the biogenic fraction of carbon dioxide.

District heating should be part of a resource-efficient city. We are therefore developing a new generation of district heating that, among other things, will make it possible to move energy directly between properties and reduces energy losses, thereby helping to develop the city of the future.

We are gradually phasing out the fossil oil we use in extremely cold weather and as starting and support fuel in the CHP plants and replacing it with renewable or fossil-free energy.

We continue to improve delivery reliability of electricity in Stockholm and we relieve the electrical grid with our investments in district heating distribution. With our steam turbines in the CHP plants, we also add capacity benefits to the local electrical grid. District heating thereby facilitates the electrification of road traffic and industry, where there are still major fossil carbon dioxide emissions to tackle.

Our production and distribution is resource efficient and controlled by smart digital systems. The district heating system reduces the need for electricity output, is flexible and contributes as needed with electricity production when and where it is needed. We thereby contribute to electrification directly and indirectly.

Together with our customers, we drive the development of the city by focusing on financial and environmental benefits and as their obvious energy partner. We enable growth of the Stockholm region and the development of new green urban areas.

We drive Stockholm’s resource-efficient, circular solutions: Thanks to effective waste sorting, with more and more material being sorted from waste to be recycled, we are able to provide more waste customers with energy recovery waste treatment services.

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