Strategy for our markets
The strategies for our markets, our facilities and our energy and fuel management guide our progress. Here we explain our strategies for each area.
"Permanent negative emissions are an essential element in achieving climate targets and net-zero emissions."
Per Ytterberg, Head of BECCS
Strategy for our markets
Energy services
With a combination of simplicity, sustainability with no net impact on the climate, and price, our district heating will be recognized as the most affordable heating option
Electricity and output
With our existing and new energy facilities, we will continue to help stabilize the electricity grid and balance the electricity system. Our facilities are often, but not always, connected to the district heating system.
Waste management
We will offer environmentally sound final treatment of residual waste with incineration and energy recovery.
Negative emissions
Through carbon capture at our bio-cogeneration and waste incineration plants, up to 1.5 million tons of permanent negative emissions can be produced every year, certified and sold on a growing voluntary market.
Production cooperation
The Stockholm region has a well-developed district heating network and extensive production cooperation.
Strategy for our facilities
Our production, distribution and energy storage infrastructure will be continuously developed to enable achievement of our market strategy and meet increased environmental requirements. We work proactively to ensure that our production plants have the environmental permits required for us to realize our market strategy. In practice, this means that our development is constantly tested against the high standards set by environmental legislation.
One high priority area is maintaining extremely high availability at our primary production facilities, as these have the best financial and environmental performance.
One strategic goal is to minimize our most expensive production in order to lower the overall cost of the district heating system.
Strategy for energy and fuel supply
District heating will be produced to a significant extent, as it has been, from waste heat generated by other social processes, such as municipal wastewater treatment plants, final treatment of residual waste through incineration, data center cooling, return flows from the district cooling network for air conditioning, etc. By recovering energy and optimizing our production and distribution systems, we decrease the district heating system’s need for biofuels. Energy recovery and production optimization are an integral part of our market strategy.
We will continue to ensure a stable, secure biofuel supply. The biofuels we use will meet legal requirements specific to sustainability as well as the requirements and expectations of the voluntary market for certified negative emissions.
We have maintained our focus on residues and by-products from the forest industry’s main processes. These biomass flows – which arise continuously from forestry operations, the pulp industry and sawmills, whether or not we make use of them – have a limited range of alternative uses for various reasons, due to their quality. The long-term, sustainable viability of the district heating business lies in these categories of biomass.
To address and meet new demands for high security of supply in the event of crisis, different types of biofuels of various origins will be included in our portfolio, and some biofuels will be able to be stored for longer periods.
We will also develop efficient and flexible transport logistics that reduce transport’s climate impact.
