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Sweden's Vattenfall targets German electric vehicle sector
Swedish power utility Vattenfall is making a push into the German market for electric vehicle (EV) services and is in talks with carmakers to further its efforts to secure a place among the leading players.
read more... 10/09/2018
Vattenfall inks power deal with Novo Nordisk, Novozymes
Swedish utility Vattenfall announced Friday a long-term power purchase agreement with global healthcare company Novo Nordisk and bio innovator Novozymes, both based in Denmark.
read more... 17/07/2018
Germany to compensate utilities for nuclear phaseout losses
The German cabinet has agreed to grant compensation of up to EUR1 billion (USD1.17 billion) to the utilities forced to shut down their nuclear power plants by the Energiewende, or energy transition, that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan in March 2011. At that time, Germany was obtaining around a quarter of its electricity from 17 nuclear reactors operated by EnBW, EOn, RWE and Vattenfall.
read more... 28/05/2018
Sweden starts building giant onshore wind farm
Government-owned Swedish power company Vattenfall has started building one of the country’s largest onshore wind farms.
read more... 21/05/2018
Netherlands will construct wind park without state aid
Vattenfall won a tender granted by the Dutch Government to build the first commissioned offshore wind farm without public funding, as stated by WindEurope on Tuesday.
read more... 21/03/2018