Swedish ministers have announced plans to offer compensation for December, January and February's electricity bills. The compensation will be on a scale, based on households' energy usage.
The EU is planning to label energy from nuclear power and natural gas as "green" sources for investment despite internal disagreement over whether they truly qualify as sustainable options.
On Tuesday, the oil power plant at Karlshamn started running again, despite it being the height of summer and despite Sweden's goal of working towards 100 percent renewable energy. This stirred up political argument, so what's actually going on?
A shift to heating powered by renewable energy means Volvo now has its first entirely climate neutral manufacturing facility, based in Skövde, southern Sweden.
A Finnish energy firm has requested manure from hundreds of horses in Sweden with the goal of turning it into biofuel to heat homes and produce electricity.
A group of students at a Swedish university have launched an innovative new project which aims to use small-scale versions of wind turbines to expand electricity access in Tanzania.
Ikea on Thursday announced plans to buy a wind farm with 55 turbines in the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta to offset its local stores' electricity use and reduce their carbon footprint.
The Swedish truck firm Scania, in partnership with German engineering company, Siemens, is developing the world’s first “eHighway”, a four kilometre stretch of highway north of Stockholm.
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has announced plans to invest 600 million euros ($677 million) in the next five years in a bid to become completely energy independent by 2020.
The world's governments are in Lima, Peru this week to lay the foundations for a new United Nations Convention on Climate Change. Sweden must play a more assertive role to push for change, says Svante Axelsson from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation.
Ikea is set to start selling solar panels at all of its stores in the UK, a first for the Swedish furniture retailer as it looks to capitalize on a growing trend in green energy.
A leading Social Democrat has emphasized her party's wish to abolish nuclear power in Sweden in favour of greener alternatives, a move critics say would be "devastating" for the Swedish industrial sector.
The engineering giant ABB announced it would purchase US green energy company Power One for the staggering sum of $1 billion in a bid to make the Swiss-Swedish company "a global player" in solar inverters.
Swedish energy group Vattenfall said Tuesday that a sluggish economy and growth in renewable energy had brought European energy prices down to "a new normal", as it nevertheless posted a rise in full-year profit.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has proposed that the Nordic countries add more than 13,000 new wind turbines in order to achieve ambitious emissions-reduction schemes in the next three decades.
Sweden shut down another reactor on Thursday, this time at the country's biggest nuclear plant near Gothenburg after an infiltration of sea water, the operator Vattenfall and the national nuclear industry watchdog said.
Swedish private equity firm EQT has agreed to purchase a majority stake in a troubled waste incineration business owned by E.ON, Germany's biggest power supplier.
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) has asked nuclear waste contractors at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant to review their security requirements after cracks were found in the pools where nuclear waste is temporarily stored on site.
