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Cleaner Capitals
As cities across the world grow larger, air pollution from cars has become a growing concern. The Nordic capitals have taken some steps to clear the air.
Pig City
Construction on a combined green house and pig farm is expected to begin in Denmark in 2010.
Danes and Chinese work together on wind energy
The Danish-Chinese Wind Energy Development Programme (WED) is a bilateral development programme with its overall objective to help China improve its technological and management capacity in wind power development.
Heating Husavik
Husavik – a small urban community on the north coast of Iceland, 40 km from the Arctic Circle – is a model of how energy efficiency can be integrated to a unified whole.
Denmark’s first carbon neutral building
The Green Lighthouse is a new facility at the University of Copenhagen. It is carbon neutral, utilizes solar panels, district heating, natural lighting and ventilation. And it shows us that energy efficient buildings are not a thing of the future.
Working together for cleaner cars
Valmet Automotive knows something about making cars, while Ensto and Fortum know quite a bit about electricity. A good reason to team up and develop solutions for electric cars.
District heating goes digital
Servers and computers generate a lot of heat. Two Finnish companies have found a clever way of cooling them down. The benefits turned out to be.. binary.
Joint Nordic research on energy and climate
The Top-level Research Initiative (TRI) focuses on climate, environment and energy solutions and is the largest joint Nordic research and innovation initiative to date. Cooperation between the best scientists and institutions in the Nordic countries will contribute towards solving the global climate crisis.
The carbon free nation
Nearly all of Iceland's electricity comes from geothermal and hydro, and 90 % of homes and workplaces are heated with geothermal hot water. Still, the ultimate challenge remains: turning the entire island into a carbon-free society.
Inspirational sustainability
An hour’s drive to the east of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, you get to the community of Solheimar. Iceland’s first eco-village and home to the Center for Sustainable Development at Sesselja House.
Stockholm, European Green Capital 2010
Starting 2010, one European city will be selected each year as the European Green Capital of the year. First one out is Sweden’s capital Stockholm. Let us have a look at what makes it so green.
Branding the wind
Kotka Energia is a energy services company that is 100 % owned by the city of Kotka, Finland. It supplies it's citizens with the heat and energy it needs, while making big cuts in the city’s emmissions.
Iceland's helping hand
A generation ago Iceland was dependent on imported fossil fuels, today they are practically energy independent. Now Iceland wish to share it's knowledge to help other countries achieve energy independence.
Improving energy efficiency
Lower energy consumption is an important step towards a sustainable energy system in Sweden.
Future dwellings
The Danish project "Fremtidens parcelhuse" near the city of Køge, has demonstrated that it is possible to build energy efficient and environmentally sound houses without compromising on architectural quality.
Produce more, pollute less – the Nordic vision
The Nordic countries have a very fine track record when it comes to dealing with the really big challenge in a carbon-constrained future: creating more growth with less pollution.
Saving 4 million tons CO2 a year
Thanks to Iceland's many volcanoes, five geothermal power and heating plants make Reykjavik an excellent example on how to make maximum use of renewable energy.
The sustainable tourist
Portable cabins for isolated tourist destinations may introduce both sustainable tourism and new energy solutions.
Exploring energy efficient pulping
When paper industry increases the use of mechanical grinding of raw materials, both wood consumption and environmental load is reduced. But energy consumption is increased.
Nordic countries are to be global role models
A declaration issued by the Nordic prime ministers states that the global increase in climate gas emissions must be halted no later than 2020. Research on climate solutions is part of the joint Nordic statements.
Demonstrating offshore wind power in deep sea
Loaded with heavy mineral olivine to secure stability, StatoilHydro's floating wind turbine is now buoyed off the coast of Norway. These turbines could be the future of renewable energy.
Norwegian companies to build wind farm off UK
220,000 homes will be supplied with clean energy from the offshore wind farm that is being established off the coast of UK by the end of 2011. StatoilHydro is operator for the development phase.
Prize winning circuit
Local sewage is used as fertiliser for bio energy crops in the Swedish city Enköping.
50 percent district heating
About 2.6 million Finns live in houses heated by district heating. District heating use heat energy generated in electricity production, and waste heat from industrial and other processes.
Welcome to cold Hawaii
Thisted Municipality in Denmark realises that an energy plan based on renewables, must be economically sustainable and help create new jobs within the municipality.
Promoting Nordic renewable solutions
The Nordic Council of Ministers envisages the Region becoming a leading exporter of sustainable energy solutions and is launching this new website to promote Nordic expertise.
Nordic energy companies increase their R&D effort
The largest Nordic energy companies are increasing their budgets on research and development. From 2006 to 2009 these budgets have risen by about 63 percent.
Floating wind turbines
Lyse is planning the world's first deep-water wind farm off the island of Utsira in Rogaland, Norway.
Biofuel from seaweed
A small eco-project in Porsanger in Northern Norway could turn out to be quite an innovative biofuel production facility.
The carbon compensating island
The Danish island Samsø has a negative carbon footprint. Offshore wind power is compensating the island's emissions from transportation.
Drilling for the ultimate thermopower
The Deep Drilling Project might lead to boreholes that could ultimately yield 10 times as much geothermal power as any previous geothermal project.
Eco-cycle in Hammarby
To minimise the consumption of resources is the goal of Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm. Waste from energy cover a sustantial part of the community's energy needs.
Energy from osmosis
The Norwegian company Statkraft opens the world’s first facility for osmotic power generation. Statkraft says a full-scale commercial osmotic power plant could be ready by 2015.
Reliable power supply from intermittent sources
By 2025, half the Danish electricity consumption will come from wind power. What challenges does that target put on the power grid?
Zero emission living area
The Skaftkärr project strives for a total elimination of carbon dioxide emissions from the area's residential housing.
Sustainable residential area in Finland
Ekoviikki in Helsinki is the largest sustainable residential area in Finland, demonstrating a range of environmental and energy concepts.
Distribution pipe connecting district heating grids in Oslo
Hafslund Fjernvarme in Oslo is connecting different district heating grids to improve the system's efficiency.
Sustainable municipalities in Sweden
Swedish municipalities bring their work on energy and the environment one step further in co-operation with the Swedish Energy Agency.
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