Innovation at Vattenfall

In Boden on the Lule River, excess heat from a local data centre is used to grow insects – which in turn become food for salmon and trout in Vattenfall's fish farm.

Electricity usage in Sweden is expected to increase over the next 20 years, while the share of weather-dependent electricity also rises. Bidirectional charging, storage, and fossil free elec...

In a groundbreaking collaboration, Vattenfall, Gjenkraft and EVI are using discarded wind turbine blades to create high-performance skis. This project showcases the potential of circular eco...

The Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is entrusting Spot, a robot dog, with tasks that are too dangerous for humans to undertake. Elsewhere, data is being analysed to detect cracking in concrete ...

Persuading fish to find their way past hydro power plants successfully has presented a challenge for a long time. Vattenfall and Cellufy are now working together to trial a solution that inv...

Electricity consumption in Sweden is expected to increase rapidly over the coming decades and, for this reason, Vattenfall is working actively to find out how different fossil-free energy so...

Developing ever-smarter ways of constructing wind farms will be crucial for Vattenfall to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations towards net zero and deliver more renewable capacity. ...

In the future, more and more of our energy will come from wind and solar power. Since nothing changes as much as the weather, the amount of electricity supplied by wind and solar is also in ...

A new trial for tracking seabirds has been launched at Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm. This time artificial intelligence, AI, is used to gather detailed information of the birds’ movements ...

With the help of AI, Vattenfall’s personnel at the Stornorrforsen hydro power plant have been able to identify fish based on a large number of characteristics. They now hope to further devel...

Vattenfall’s 'Power-as-a-Service' solutions for mobile energy storage continue to develop. Together with Uppsala-based company, AirForestry, a one-year pilot project is now underway in which...

Vattenfall has been awarded  GBP 9.3 million in innovation funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK Government.

Today, in collaboration with Ballard Power Systems and IT Norrbotten, Vattenfall is inaugurating Sweden’s first hydrogen gas-driven fuel cell plant for backup power for broadband networks. T...

The Vattenfall automated charging and payment solution, InCharge, is part of a test that will make payment effortless while the electrical car is being charged wirelessly.

Vattenfall has opened its first floating solar farm in Gendringen, the Netherlands.

Vattenfall has developed a climate-smart hydropower concrete with less cement content that can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by around a quarter.

Steered charging of electric vehicles can provide the electricity grid with much needed flexibility. In Berlin and Amsterdam, Vattenfall is running two interesting new projects to test flexi...

Inspection of power lines, hydropower dams and nuclear reactors made simpler and safer by the use of drones.