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NEWS 24 April 2018

Water is her element

News Water is her element As a child she spent hours on the bow of a boat looking at the water, now she ... relationship with nature and water” says Marja Rankila I've been fascinated by water eve...

NEWS 1 August 2018

Warm cooling water forces Swedish nuclear reactor Ringhals 2 out of operation

News Warm cooling water forces Swedish nuclear reactor Ringhals 2 out of operation After reactor 2 at ... continued warm weather in Sweden has brought the sea water close to 25 degrees during recent d...

NEWS 10 March 2023

International women’s week: Mathilde gets surprised every day

It was actually her interest in water that brought Mathilde Lindhardt Damsgaard into wind power development

NEWS 3 April 2019

New test facility increases fish migration past hydro power plants

A unique test ... facility for studying the behaviour of fish in running water and around power plants has now been inaugurated

NEWS 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 ... solution that involves using dancing rods made of water-resistant cellulose foam to guide the fish ...

NEWS 3 May 2023

On the road to net zero with sewage and algae

District heating is an efficient way of providing sustainable heating solutions by replacing ... would, however, be surprised if they knew that water from toilets, rivers, production of algae and porc...

NEWS 28 November 2023

How using sewage for your shower helps the climate

We literally flush a huge part of produced energy right down the drain. But the hot sewage ... your neighbours can be used to heat your shower water again - whilst also helping to achieve climate goal...

NEWS 13 July 2022

Germany's largest heat storage in the starting blocks

Germany's largest heat accumulator is expected to be commissioned at the start of next year. The heat storage ... plant in Berlin and is now being filled with a water volume of around 350,000 bath...

NEWS 26 March 2025

From the Baltic to the North Sea: Expanding WIN@sea Brings Seaweed Farming Closer to Local Fishermen

vessel movements. Mussel farming can help filter the water With low salinity conditions posing ongoing challenges ... help filter excess nutrients from the water and improve overall water quality. By ...

NEWS 26 November 2024

Annika Ramsköld named one of Europe's top Chief Sustainability Officers

News Vattenfall's Head of Sustainability Annika Ramsköld has qualified for the list ... greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity measures and water usage, as well as diversity, equity and inclu...

NEWS 26 November 2024

The energy transition: why balance matters and how to keep it

homes. There are ways to control processes so that water heaters, washing machines and electric car chargers ... that less water passes through turbines, turning off a turbine or simply holding the wa...

NEWS 24 February 2025

Volcano power unleashed with the help of AI

for energy production: superheated steam and hot water from fumaroles and geothermal vents, underground ... energy-rich drilling locations and identify supercritical water zones, which can vastly impr...

NEWS 28 October 2024

Dutch homeowners shower in sunshine

However, most Dutch homes rely on fossil gas for hot water and heating. Now, Vattenfall in the Netherlands ... per cent is fed back into the grid. With a solar water heater, calculations show that up ...

NEWS 3 August 2018

Swedish nuclear reactor Ringhals 2 back in operation

18:00 Friday 3 August. nuclear The too warm sea water (more than 25 degrees Celsius) was not capable of ... the weather conditions had improved and the sea water temperature had dropped to a lev...

NEWS 2 December 2024

Finland’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm underway

News The work is already in full swing in Korsnäs off the west coast of Finland where ... Metsähallitus experts. Metsähallitus manages land and water areas of the Finnish state and sele...

NEWS 21 September 2018

Survival

could be the rough waters of the North Sea and the ten men and women in the water the remainder of the ... to the offshore wind farm. There in the surging water, Christesen finds it all realistic enou...

NEWS 23 April 2018

The hidden power plant

operating staff to be operational. The plant’s water treatment activities are still ongoing. Gigantic ... room for four fully equipped power plant units, a water treatment facility and huge oil storag...

NEWS 26 September 2017

Pilot project uses salt for energy storage

adding water to the dry salt, calcium oxide, the salt turns into calcium hydroxide. The water starts ... degrees Celsius. If you add hot steam instead of water to the salt, the steam temperature will ...

NEWS 15 February 2019

First power-to-heat plant in Hamburg to convert wind energy into heat

renewable sources. Wind energy can then be used to heat water that will be supplied to the district heating network ... speaking, it works like a giant continuous-flow water heater and enables us to r...

NEWS 4 December 2019

Vattenfall helps eels migrate safely

plants in the Netherlands. "Q is the quantity of water, and h is the height difference. Together, these ... they respond to the amount of pheromones in the water," says Henk Vis, Manager Dec...