News and press releases

The innovation competition Sustainable Mobility Challenge is now launched to find sustainable everyday travel services that are so attractive that the need for privately-owned cars is reduced. The competition is organised by the Swedish Energy Agency and is one of a number of initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions and helping to bring about a fossil-free transport sector at the latest by 2045.

Since 2011, the Lighting Research Center (LRC) from Troy, New York, has visited the Swedish Energy Agency for a week of lighting seminars on an advanced level. The week has become very popular among the participants, and this year the week will be held between 3-7 December in Stockholm.

Today, there are three Cleantech hubs, in San Francisco, London and Shanghai. Now another hub is being launched in New York, in collaboration with the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. The new hub will be a part of Gateway - an innovation platform and physical meeting place in New York for Swedish and American growth companies and international corporations.

CorPower Ocean AB has delivered a final report on the ocean testing of its wave energy converter in half-scale. The ocean tests show promising results when it comes to meeting two big challenges for the ocean energy sector – significant power production and storm survivability

The Swedish Energy Agency has granted C-Green Technology AB nearly SEK 22.7 million to build a full-scale plant that converts industrial biosludge into biofuel. The project will be carried out in cooperation with StoraEnso in Finland. Approximately 13 GWh renewable biofuel will be produced annually, at the same time as the mill's greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by the equivalent of 7.000 tons of CO2 per year.

In connection with EU and Trade Minister Ann Linde's visit to Iceland on 26 to 27 June, she launched an innovative geothermal heat power plant, which Swedish Climeon has delivered.

The Swedish Energy Agency has granted HYBRIT, SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall's initiative for fossil-free steel funding for two pilot plants. The Agency finances the two projects with a total of SEK 528 million, which will be the largest funding in the history of the Agency.

Strategic innovation programmes is an initiative where leading actors from industry, academia and the public sector identify and define areas where they see a need for collaborative efforts and to mobilise Swedish resources and knowledge.

The Minister for Policy Coordination and Energy Ibrahim Baylan has launched two international innovation competitions: Sustainable Mobility as a Service and Sustainable Local Energy Systems. Entrepreneurs and companies from all over the world are invited to participate.

The winning contribution in yesterdays competition comes from the company Altered. The energy innovation is a tap mounted on faucets and turns the water into a dense fog. Up to 98 percent of water consumption can be reduced with this innovation.