Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt will meet US President George W. Bush in Washington on May 15th for talks on alternative energy sources, the Swedish government said on Friday.
Oil company Tethys Oil has said that it wants to begin exploratory oil drilling on northern Gotland. Because of rising world oil prices, the company believes it could now be profitable to begin sourcing oil from the Swedish island.
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce (Sveriges Handelskammare) has called for a long-term energy strategy to keep down electricity costs for Swedish businesses.
EU leaders were close on Thursday to agreeing to set binding targets for using renewable energy at an EU summit focused on climate change, the Swedish prime minister said.
Plans by Russian gas giant Gazprom to build a pipeline across the Baltic Sea are causing worry across the political spectrum in Sweden, with leaders concerned that the pipeline infrastructure could be used as a platform for Russian intelligence.
According to the World Wildlife Fund Sweden is among the world's worst polluters. The WWF Living Planet report indicates that "humanity is using the planet's resources faster than they can be renewed and that populations of vertebrate species have declined by about one third since 1970."
Maud Olofsson, Centre Party leader and new industry and trade minister, wants to construct more wind turbines in the wilds of Sweden, according to Dagens Nyheter.
A series of measures must be taken before three nuclear reactors shut down in July can be brought back into operation, the Swedish nuclear power inspectorate (SKI) has concluded.
Swedish energy company E.ON Nordic is considering taking part in a project to build a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, which would replace the ageing Ignalina plant, the company's CEO said on Tuesday.
The Swedish government said on Friday it was concerned about German-Russian plans to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, fearing the environmental impact.
The Laholm municipality in southwest Sweden is set to build a wind farm with 100 turbines, but this time the project will be built inland instead of in coastal waters.
The nuclear reactor at the Forsmark power plant could be restarted soon, after tests in Germany appeared to explain what had happened in the incident that caused the shutdown.
As Sweden's nuclear energy crisis deepens, the Left Party has put further pressure on the government by demanding the closure of another nuclear power station by 2010.
Sweden will not be an oil-free zone by 2020, the government has admitted. But Sweden's prime minister, Göran Persson, said that there will be sufficient alternatives that no section of society will be dependent on fossil fuels.
The centre-right Alliance has reached agreement on energy policy, saying it will not close additional reactors in Sweden nor will it allow the construction of other plants until 2010 at the earliest.
The Liberal Party has said it is willing to drop its demand to allow an expansion of nuclear power to achieve a compromise deal with its partners in the opposition Alliance.
ABB Ltd said it has won a 24 million dollar contract from Sweden's OKG to help upgrade its Oskarshamn Unit 3 nuclear reactor on the southeast coast of Sweden.
<span class="smallPrint">TBILISI.</span> Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson have discussed the recent energy supply crisis that set Georgia and Russia at odds earlier this week.
