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Alf Engqvist, smiles when he talks about the future.

" We don't have all the answers today. We had a plan in the period to 2030, with a step of 1, 2, 3, and 4. Now, it doesn't work anymore, and we'll have to think about. For an engineering company, it is a really interesting exercise.

in Front of the ceo, a list of 70 items. ”Storing solar energy in the bussbatterier”, ”Renewable energy, for Göteborgsvarvet”, and ”Smart stadsodlingar to the people,” says the paper. This is the beginning of the plan, which is to make municipal, Gothenburg Energy, zero carbon by the year 2025, five years earlier than its previous target.

biomass chp plant is similar to a wood-fired sauna. General manager, Martin Johnson, shows the way up the stairs, and pick up a blue plastic bucket, filled to the brim with wood chips.

"It's a little more humid than it usually is," he said.

biokraftvärmeverket of the Sävenäs will be wood residues from the forestry industry, who will be the fuel for a district heating system. Photo credit: Jonas Lindstedt

the waste products of the forest, sent the eight stories up in a co-generation plant, and to become the fuel for district heating, which will give the people of gothenburg, warm showers and an electric heater. 90% of all apartment blocks in Göteborg, sweden receive district heating from the municipal energibolagets combined heat and power. The largest share of the energy produced by the waste heat from the sites opening up, and related industries, including oil refineries.

the power plant of Sävenäs is on the point of 5, 12, 46, and 48 of Göteborg Energi's list. Bränslegården will be, and the more the boilers are to be replaced. A little over a mile from here, in fact, in the rya harbour, a major change to take place. Where the combusted gas, a fuel that will need to be replaced no later than 2025 Gothenburg and the Energy to succeed in achieving their goals.

it was opened nearly 14 years ago. This shows how rapid the change is in the energy industry, " says Göteborg Energi's managing director, Alf Engqvist.

" The most we can be, we don't use any more.

the Conversion is going to cost you. Over the next ten years, the company expects to invest between 10 and 15 million dollars in the district heating system, including the multi-billion-will be used for the phase-out of fossil fuels. Alf Engqvist, predict, though major investments in the electricity grid in the future, in order to, among other things, to meet the demand as more and more electrically powered buses and cars will bring.

" It's going to be more expensive, is the electric grid. It is a question of large investments, and, in the end, it is none other than the customer who pays, say, Alf Engqvist.

to remain competitive as an integral part of sustainability, according to president and ceo. Göteborg Energi is Sweden's fourth-largest energy company and a supplier to, among other things, a Volvo. Alf Engqvist, would like to recruit the country's top engineers, says that the company will have to work harder in order to reach out to people from many different backgrounds.

" We are of the day, it is a homogeneous group and the need to increase diversity. The balance between men and women does not need to be a hundred.

< Alf Engqvist says that the diversity and equal opportunities are crucial for a company to be successful. Photo credit: Jonas Lindstedt
president and ceo, discusses why even a bet on the introduktionstjänster, which will provide the company with the opportunity to utilize the newly-arrived engineers, and engineering skills. High school students will be offered internships at the company, and a 50-50 prize” will be awarded to the teams that are most successful with their work on gender equality.

the drive to become more sustainable will be from a variety of sources, according to president and ceo. The new graduates, the engineers, the company is looking to hire, and they often have a keen interest in the issue. And from the customers and the companies, as the Energy of the work.

" Klimatomställningen is a matter of life and death. For the business executive, it is purely as a matter of fact, if we don't do it here, someone else will do it.

see also: So, in preparing to Gothenburg in the face of climate change.