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Critical biomass - Sweden

Preface

"Our strategy is to reduce our dependency on oil. I'm pretty sure that by 2020 we will have succeeded in phasing it out in the heating sector," says Ola Alterå, Sweden's state secretary at the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications. It's a bold ambition, but one city is already well on the way to being oil free.

Credits

Writer: Elna Nykanen



01 :: Annotated map of Växjö (details below)

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