Sweden focuses on biomass
Sweden focuses on energy production from waste and biomass. This creates business opportunities in Scandinavia also for our company. By 2020, Sweden wants to be the first country in the world no longer using oil for energy purposes.
In this regard, the energy production from waste and biomass will become increasingly more important. The trade fairs "Elmia Waste & Recycling" and "World Bioenergy," both will take place in Jönköping, Sweden from May 30 until June 1, 2006, will show the latest technical solutions for this rapidly growing market. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the kingdom Sweden was ranked number one in Europe with regards to environmental protection. Even now this can be underpinned with figures as follows: Sales of home heating oil in Sweden have continually dropped to less than 17% of the all time high in 1973. Consumption of the fossil fuel within the industry has remained stable, while industrial production increased by 70% over the same period.
In Sweden, 29 so-called "waste-to-energy" plants are currently operational, incinerating more than 3.1 million tons of waste in 2004 and generating 9.3 terawatt hours (= 9.3 billion kilowatt hours) of energy. The largest portion of this is thermal energy (8.6 TWh), the remainder is power production. To "feed" the plants, modern machines are necessary to prepare and treat the corresponding material. And that, in turn, could open up new perspectives clients for Doppstadt in Calbe.
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