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25 June 2024
Dancing foam rods guide fish to safety
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
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25 June 2024
Match making: how energy transition and biodiversity can coexist
The energy sector needs to transition to fossil-free production to mitigate the impact of climate ... of climate change. One challenge is to achieve this while also preserving and protecting biodiver...
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23 January 2024
Finding the solutions will absolutely not be easy
Fossil fuels have contributed to an extraordinary level of economic transformation during hundreds of years. ... enormous, and the essential decarbonisation might seem to present overwhelming challeng...
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22 April 2021
Decarbonisation through electrification – a comprehensive overview
biggest challenges of our time, it holds immense opportunities for creative and innovative solutions. Vattenfall ... position to seize these opportunities and transform itself and other emitting indus...
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5 June 2024
From Vattenfall Diversity Month to Pride Season 2024
of diversity, for example gender and sexual orientation, ethnicity and worldview or age. The concept of ... underscore that one size does not fit all. The first and single most important step towards ...
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NEWS
24 November 2021
Bats, bombs, bears and the journey to fossil free
Operating and constructing onshore windfarms can pose certain challenges. In Vattenfall’s monthly project ... all kinds of topics are discussed, some more challenging than others.
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20 July 2023
First six months 2023: A positive development for the customer business and challenges in offshore wind power
Vattenfall’s business is in general progressing well. We benefit from our integrated business model with better results from Distribution, ... better results from Distribution, Heat and Customers &...
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25 February 2019
Vattenfall’s battery solution reduced climate impact at skating championships
Another major sports event make use of ... Vattenfall’s expertise in energy storage and other climate-smart solutions.
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15 May 2019
Joint trainee hackaton on future energy solutions
Vattenfall, SEB, Siemens and Husqvarna cooperated on a joint hackaton with former trainees about future ... future sustainable energy solutions.
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26 January 2024
The challenge is on to make clean energy clean all the way
raise awareness and mobilise action for a just and inclusive transition to clean energy. And not just clean ... carbon, but because it’s built in environmentally and socially sustainable ways. Clean a...
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25 March 2024
Offshore turbines get reusable covers
temporary solution used to cap the huge tube. In the past, covers tended to be written off and destroyed ... Zuid Offshore Wind Farm are durable, can be reused and will last as long as 10 to 15 years....
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9 May 2019
Blockchain hackaton put focus on solar panels
Vattenfall had a challenge for the participants: to find a solution for the certification of green power
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27 February 2024
Storing and using carbon – why it matters for the transition
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage sounds almost too good to be true. What role will it have in ... to a fossil-free future? What are its advantages, and what are its drawbacks?
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20 June 2019
Green bond worth 500 million euros in Times Square
Vattenfall's first green bond, which provides 500 million ... euros for investments in renewable energy and climate solutions, proves a great success
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NEWS
29 April 2022
First quarter 2022: War in Ukraine dominated energy market sentiment
The war in Ukraine and its related market volatility pose great challenges for the European energy system
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25 June 2024
Are bats and wind turbines a viable cocktail at sea?
Understanding the big picture when it comes to the movement of bats over the sea is important ... the risk of collisions between wind turbine blades and bats while also ensuring the generation of offs...
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14 June 2024
Eco-anxiety – and how to make it go away
Eco-anxiety, a condition many experience in ... response to a barrage of bad news about climate change and the environment, seems to impact young people the
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NEWS
18 May 2020
Northvolt and Vattenfall launch battery energy storage solution
Modular ... lithium-ion battery solution Voltpack Mobile System could be an alternative for diesel generators and more.
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8 February 2023
Full-year report: 2022 – a challenging year
created major challenges. At the same time, we worked hard to support worried customers and ensure the security ... for electricity and heat. Vattenfall's business and underlying results developed...
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24 June 2024
Vattenfall and BASF partner with Vestas for low-emission steel wind turbines in Germany
Vattenfall and BASF have signed supply and service contracts with Vestas for 15 MW offshore wind turbines
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4 February 2021
Year-end report 2020: Resilience and progress during a challenging year
Vattenfall has managed well during 2020. The year-end report shows a stable underlying operating ... profit despite low electricity prices, lower sales and ongoing pandemic.
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NEWS
3 September 2018
Trainee hackathon generates innovative charging solutions
22 young trainees were given 52 hours to ... develop complete business plans for fast charging solutions.
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7 February 2019
2018 was a challenging year for Vattenfall
Increased sales, ... record nuclear power generation and progress for Wind, but continued challenges for Heat. The price of electricity
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NEWS
26 September 2023
Electric vehicles and charging – time to cut the cord?
New technological developments ... make wireless charging the perfect solution for all kinds of vehicles and transportation.
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28 May 2024
Innovative energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines
sustainable energy and fossil freedom. News light-blue Innovative energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines ... energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines Innovative energy: Space solar an...
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27 May 2024
The future of flight: How to make aviation fossil-free
The human urge to explore the far corners of the globe is as old as time itself, but our wanderlust ... cost. From electric planes to biofuels, hydrogen, and electrofuels, the aviation industry is now...
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10 October 2019
Vattenfall Solar Team prepared for a new title win
Maud Diepeveen, team leader, and Maxime Croft, engineer and driver of the NunaX solar car are ready for ... for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge next week.
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23 January 2024
The lives of hundreds of millions of Europeans will be affected by EU elections in June.
Even if the European Parliament feels distant for most people, its decisions have ... far-reaching effects on day-to-day environmental and energy issues, such as how strict energy efficiency
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10 May 2024
The web of deceit: How false narratives threaten climate action
rising temperatures and extreme weather, but also the spread of disinformation and misinformation. False ... worse by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media algorithms that amplify f...
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2 November 2021
Vattenfall Solar Team finishes third in exciting desert race
The Vattenfall ... the Solar Challenge Morocco. The race took teams through the Sahara Desert with camels and endless sand ... sand dunes, and was marked by chaotic traffic, sand storms and stomach fl...
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24 June 2024
Restoring peatland: From carbon leak to biodiverse carbon sink
planned the largest onshore wind farm in England and Wales, Pen y Cymoedd, it also took on the restoration ... restoration of up to around 1,500 hectares of blanket bog and other peatland habitat whic...
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3 May 2023
On the road to net zero with sewage and algae
efficient way of providing sustainable heating solutions by replacing fossil alternatives. Most people ... from toilets, rivers, production of algae and porcelain – and in future maybe even from the L...
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27 March 2024
Building energy resilience in the face of climate change
Climate change is becoming increasingly apparent and is likely to become even more pronounced in the future
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3 May 2023
The future of wind energy lies beyond the horizon
significantly. The electrification of transport, industry and heat is expected to require at least double the electricity ... have now. Floating wind turbines is one of the solutions to meet the deman...
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20 May 2022
Major focus on biodiversity
22 May is the International ... topic that is closely connected to the climate challenge. Josefin Blanck, strategic environmental advisor ... at Vattenfall, sees how the issue is getting more and more...
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21 October 2021
Vattenfall Solar Team ready for Solar Challenge Morocco
On 25 October, the Vattenfall Solar Team and its solar car, the Nuna11, will be on the starting line ... this year's biggest solar-car race: the Solar Challenge Morocco. In fierce competition the ...
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27 February 2024
Five better things do with carbon dioxide
Instead of regarding carbon dioxide as a threat, we should realise it’s an essential element for almost all products used by mankind. ... targets, carbon dioxide needs to be captured, used and re-used...
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8 January 2021
The Vattenfall Solar Team looks to strike gold again
Vattenfall is teaming up with the Vattenfall ... Solar Team again this year to try and win the World Solar Challenge title. After this race – which is
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NEWS
27 October 2020
First nine months: Positive development in turbulent market
In a challenging market situation, Vattenfall reports a slight earnings improvement from the underlying ... generation was compensated by increased sales business and a favourable result from trading.
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19 June 2024
Vattenfall shares best practices on Diversity & Inclusion in Paris
Vattenfall recently participated in an event hosted by the French Minister for Ecology Transition, Christophe Béchu, to ... discuss women's access to careers in the energy and ecology transit...
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27 May 2024
Drones make it safer and more efficient
of sustainable energy and fossil freedom. News light-blue Drones make it safer and more efficient Drones ... Drones make it safer and more efficient Drones make it safer and more efficient The deve...
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22 April 2022
Focus on energy issues in Europe
In ... the wake of the Ukraine war, the issues of price and sufficient access to energy are main topics of the
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5 June 2018
Plastic – a challenge to the fossil free society
News Plastic – a challenge to the fossil free society This year the UN World Environment Day focuses ... 10 per cent of all the waste we generate. These and many other facts from the UN are the backdr...
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14 October 2019
How is Vattenfall Solar Team doing? Report after two stages
Sunday, October 13, the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge started in Darwin, Australia. For the tenth time ... qualifying session, the team claimed the eighth position and yesterday it managed to move...
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NEWS
23 April 2024
Has the time come to turn the tide into energy?
In the UK, the need for predictable, fossil-free and preferably indigenous energy has revived an old dream:
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3 October 2022
Vattenfall studio: nuclear power/wind power, do we need both?
to nuclear power. But can we meet the energy challenge with just one or the other power source? Vattenfall ... energy debate with nuclear power manager Björn Linde and wind manager Sandra Grauers...
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8 July 2021
Vattenfall Solar Team presents Nuna11, the 'Picasso of solar cars'
The Vattenfall ... three-wheeler with the third wheel in an unusual position and an angled solar panel. With Nuna11, the team hopes ... hopes to take home the title at the Solar Challenge Morocco in t...
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NEWS
3 April 2024
Vattenfall InCharge expands public charging station network in The Hague
Hague in the Netherlands has awarded the management and maintenance of its 5,400 public charging points to ... charging technologies and feature easy payment options. With a comprehensive and modern c...
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27 February 2024
Vattenfall takes major step towards negative emissions in Jordbro
In Jordbro outside Stockholm, Vattenfall plans to have a facility in place by 2028 that will be able to capture up to 150,000 ... negative emissions through bio energy carbon capture and storage (BECC...
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17 July 2019
Innovative collaborations accelerate the route to fossil-free living
maintenance robots for wind turbines and hydrogen production solutions. These are some areas Vattenfall wants ... innovation platform and acts as the bridge between Vattenfall’s current core business ...
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22 October 2021
A real e-transport challenge: 300 kilometres running on electricity in polar climate carrying 14 tonnes of iron ore
News A real e-transport challenge: 300 kilometres running on electricity in polar climate carrying 14 ... 14 tonnes of iron ore A real e-transport challenge: 300 kilometres running on electricity in ...
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29 March 2023
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freedom, and the ambition is to encourage higher engagement. It shows that we address the challenges of our ... our time, and that there are both hope and solutions – our own and those of others. Ever...
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13 May 2022
Vattenfall commissions hydrogen gas-driven backup power for telecoms networks
In collaboration with Ballard Power Systems and IT Norrbotten, Vattenfall is inaugurating Sweden’s first
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31 August 2017
We have the technology to cut Sweden's emissions by 30 per cent
Almedalen, according to Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Mikael Damberg. hybrit, proofpoint Three ... emissions by 30 per cent if the steel and cement industry and the transport sector, in conj...
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18 November 2021
Vattenfall’s new heat pump provides homeowners an alternative to gas
Vattenfall ... heat pump system is designed to become a simple and affordable alternative to the gas-fired central heating ... Netherlands, followed by other countries for which this solution is suita...
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5 February 2021
Vattenfall Solar Team out of the starting blocks for the Australia solar race
know yet whether the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge will happen this October, but the Vattenvall Solar ... new team is made up of 17 students from TU Delft, and today they're introducing themse...
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9 March 2018
World’s biggest blockchain hackathon in the Netherlands
work in teams to find system solutions to challenges facing companies and/or public authorities around ... GasUnie and New Energy Coalition, Nuon is sponsoring the Energy Transition track. The challen...
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26 March 2021
Vattenfall joins initiative to protect and restore nature in line with science
To actively ... participate in the development of new methods and guidance to protect and restore nature based on science Vattenfall
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27 March 2024
A just and fair energy transition – or no transition at all?
Europe’s shift towards fossil-free energy, justice and fairness take centre stage. A looming backlash is ... is seen in protests against climate policies, and a surge in politicians opposing these mea...
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13 September 2018
Vattenfall invited to EU conference on hydrogen
at the EU:s high-level conference for the energy and industry sectors. The subject is to discuss how sustainably ... can be manufactured, stored and used to transform the energy system and reduce the ...