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		<title>Sweden will install more windmills to meet increasing demand</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sweden has to install at least 200 new windmills every year till 2020 to meet the demand from the European Union which requires a higher proportion of renewable energy, according to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet report.
The EU&#8217;s goal is to increase renewable energy from 40% to 49% by 2020. That means Swedish wind energy must increase 25 times from the current SEK 1 Twh.
&#8220;We are seeing record growth in investments in wind power. We are now working to catch .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms threat to reindeer</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reindeer migration routes could be under threat from wind farms, it has been claimed.
However, the reindeer in question are not in Moray but in Sweden.
The impact of wind farm development on traditional paths followed by the reindeer every year are a major concern in Scandinavia, local planners were told this week.
The effect on tourism is another issue under discussion, members of a Swedish fact-finding mission told Moray Council.
A party of 27 political leaders, planners, academics and reindeer owners met the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Swedes learn from Moray’s experiences; Delegation gathers information on windfarm consultations</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group of Swedish delegates visited Moray yesterday to learn about the region’s experiences with windfarms.
A 27-strong party from the central part of the Scandinavian country met representatives from Moray Council to find out how the local authority has dealt with applications and consultations for wind turbines.
Moray has two hillside windfarms in operation — at Paul’s Hill near Charleston of Aberlour and Cairn Uish at Rothes.
Sweden relies on hydro-electric schemes and nuclear plants for its energy, and has a handful .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish government OKs plan for 860 megawatt offshore wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sweden&#8217;s government Tuesday approved the building of the country&#8217;s largest offshore wind farm, the environment ministry said in a statement.
&#8220;The government has authorized the building&#8230;of a maximum of 108 wind turbines measuring at most 200 metres, and with a capacity of 860 megawatts,&#8221; the ministry said.
Although there are several giant wind farm projects in the works around the world, the largest existing offshore wind farm is a 750-MW spread in Texas, while total global offshore wind capacity amounts to just .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In another threat, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams have sprung up in reindeer herding areas that had been protected, cutting grazing and forcing the Sami off their traditional land.
Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father&#8217;s father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s.
But, because of climate change, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Dong Energy to build 30 MW wind farm in Sweden</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dong Energy AS, Denmark&#8217;s majority state-owned, largest power and heat generator, said it has decided to build and operate a 30 MW wind farm in Krokom, Sweden.
The total investment is seen at 275 mln dkr.
The Storrun wind farm, which will consist of 12 2.5 MW wind turbines, is scheduled to commence production at the end of 2009.
&#8216;The decision to build the Storrun wind farm is part of Dong Energy&#8217;s strategy to expand within renewable energy in Northern Europe,&#8217; group chief .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blade flew 40 meters [Vingen flög 40 meter]</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ett flera ton tungt rotorblad lossnade från vindkraftverk
[The several-ton rotor blade broke off from a wind turbine last Friday morning on Gotland. "People walk with their dogs in this area!" said Hardy Pettersson of Nãs. The blade created a meter-deep crater. The turbine is one of a group of nine installed in 2002. They are Vestas V52 models rated at 850 kW. Each rotor blade is 25 meters long and weights several tons. The detached blade landed 40 meters from .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy is not an end in itself</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sir, In the climate initiative announced last week by the European Commission, a difficult requirement for many countries will be the separate goal for the share of renewable energy. This goal will lead to perverse consequences when combined with the goal for the total emissions of carbon dioxide. Requiring an increase of the share of renewables with given total emissions of carbon dioxide is the same as requiring an increase in energy consumption.
For example, many of the houses in Sweden .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden handed toughest green target</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under the European Commission&#8217;s proposals, each European Union state has its own legally binding target for increasing the share of renewables, such as wind and solar power, in its energy mix.
At the top of the scale, Sweden, which already generates most of its electricity from nuclear and hydro-electric power, is being asked to raise renewables to 49 per cent of the country&#8217;s overall energy use. At the lower end of the scale, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Hungary are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New wind power goals:  More windmills may be on Sweden’s horizon</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing in Friday’s Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish Energy Agency’s Director-General Thomas Korsfeldt and project manager Klas Tennberg say Sweden needs 6000 new wind power plants in order to reach European Union renewable energy goals.
When it comes to wind power, Sweden’s current annual output is 1.4 terawatts an hour from 800 plants.  The national Energy Agency suggests a goal of 30 TWh by 2020.  That’s trippling the goal currently in place.
There are a few hurdles before the wind lights .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden turns to a promising, but flawed, power source</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MALMO, Sweden: Steadying himself on the heaving foredeck of an inspection ship recently, his face flecked by spray, Arne Floderus pronounced it a good day for his new offshore wind farm.
A 30-mile-an-hour wind was twirling the fingerlike blades of a turbine 380 feet above his head. Around him, a field of turbines rotated in a synchronized ballet that, when fully connected to an electrical grid, would generate enough power to light 60,000 nearby houses.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve created a new landmark,&#8221; said Floderus, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Vattenfall, Sveaskog say form wind power venture</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Swedish utility Vattenfall and forest owner Sveaskog said on Friday they plan to join forces to build up to 550 wind farms in southern Sweden.
The firms said the agreement concerned land in Halland, Vastra Gotaland, Kronoberg, Kalmar and Blekinge counties and could result in plants with a total 1,500 megawatts.
&#8220;That is 40 percent more than any other wind power project in Sweden. The 4 TWh (per year) in which the investments could result correspond to around 3 percent of Sweden&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden&#39;s SCA, Norway&#39;s Statkraft in &#36;2.4 billion wind power venture</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Swedish package and paper products company Svenska Cellulosa AB and Norwegian power company Statkraft Friday said they would invest 16 billion kronor (€1.73 billion; US&#36;2.4 billion) in wind power in northern Sweden.
The companies said the wind power venture would involve production of 2,800 gigawatt hours, or GWh, of wind power electricity a year, accounting for between two to three percent of Sweden&#8217;s electricity production.
The joint venture will consist of around 400 windmills in seven wind farms in northern Sweden. Statkraft .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Industry Minister: building wind farms &#39;must be made easier&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winning planning consent for wind farms must be made easier, the government has said. Objections by local residents and councils can delay projects by several years.
Industry Minister Maud Olofsson is now demanding a change to the law:
&#8220;We cannot have lots of cases in the courts all the time. Fundamentally, we need a planning law that is easier and quicker,&#8221; she told SVT.
The government is to set up an inquiry to carry out a review of regulations and make proposals for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Go-ahead for Swedish wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Administrative Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from the Swedish Municipality of Velling and granted Vattenfall permission to complete the construction of Lillgrund Wind Farm at a planned height of 115m.
‘We are happy to be able to complete construction using the increased height. Ten metres cannot be seen with the naked eye at this distance from land, but these 10 metres are important to the generation capacity of the wind power plants which increases by one per cent .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fortum plans 50-50 wind farm JV in Sweden</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finnish utility Fortum said it is planning a 50-50 wind farm joint venture with Orsa Besparingsskog, a land and forest cooperative in Sweden.
The venture would spend between 22-33 mln eur on up to eight 2-3 megawatt wind power plants in the Orsa Finnmark area of the province of Dalarna in central Sweden.
Fortum said the investment would be part of a long-term plan to raise its &#8216;environmentally-benign&#8217; power generation capacity.
Most of the 7 bln eur Fortum has spent on CO2-free capacity .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>How to boost wind power development</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Mar 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The European Union&#8217;s current goal is to increase the share of electricity produced from renewable energy sources by up to 22% by 2010. In line with European objectives, in 2002 the Swedish government adopted a national planning goal of yearly electricity production from wind power of 10 TWh by 2015, which implied a substantial increase from the 0.851 TWh level of 2005. In spite of these policy goals and measures, wind power has achieved considerably more modest results in Sweden .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Sweden set for wind power duel</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Dec 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two companies are fighting for the right to build wind turbines at BlaikfjÃ¤llet in northern Sweden. Skelleftekraft and Svevind each want to built around 120 turbines.
&#8220;BlaikfjÃ¤llet is very well suited to wind turbines. There is already a connection to the national electricity grid from Juktan power station, and the wind conditions are also favourable,&#8221; Mikael Kyrk from Svevind told VÃ¤sterbottens-Kuriren.
&#8220;But there is not enough room for two projects at the same time.
&#8220;It might be possible to coordinate the projects but .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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