Vattenfall develops fish-safe hydropower solutions
Testing bio-based foam rods with Cellufy to guide fish safely past facilities, enhancing biodiversity while maintaining energy generation.
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European electricity and heat generation and supply company
vattenfall.com- Headquarters
- Solna, Sweden
- Founded year
- 1909
- Company type
- Public company
- Number of employees
- 15,000+
- Industry
- Electric Utilities
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Latest news about Vattenfall
In short: Vattenfall advanced its fossil-free strategy by selecting Rolls-Royce SMR for nuclear expansion and securing major Danish offshore projects.
Company announcements
Vattenfall wins two Danish offshore wind projects
The Hesselø (800 MW) and North Sea I Mid (1,000 MW) projects, with 30-year consents and grid connections, will strengthen Denmark's fossil-free energy production.
Vattenfall ships transition pieces for Nordlicht I wind farm
These 362-tonne components, manufactured by CS WIND Offshore, will be installed in the German North Sea.
Vattenfall and CIP award DEME contract for Zeevonk foundations
DEME will transport and install 69 monopile foundations for phase 1 of the 2 GW offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, subject to final investment decision.
Media coverage
Vattenfall green-lights 254MW German battery build | Energy Storage | reNEWS
Vattenfall has taken a final investment decision to build a 254MW battery storage project with around 1,000MWh of capacity at Brunsbüttel in Germany.
Reactor turbine stopped automatically – half of Swedish nuclear power is at a standstill
The Forsmark 2 reactor has been running with only one turbine since an automatic shutdown on Sunday evening. The error occurred the same day that Forsmark 1 was taken out of service for...
A 470-megawatt British reactor is going next to Sweden's Ringhals plant, three of them, 1,500 megawatts, the first new nuclear since 1985 — about 6 percent of everything the country uses, designed to run more than 60 years, same physics the operators next door have run for four decades
The reasoning is refreshingly unromantic. The Rolls-Royce design is a pressurized water reactor, “the same type used at Ringhals today,” as Anna Borg, Videberg Kraft...
Vattenfall's prices on offshore wind are an illusion
The Danish contract prices are based on potential production, not actual delivery, which according to calculations could result in losses of nearly two billion kronor.
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