About Stockholm Exergi

What we do

Our activities are based around our distribution network, through which we provide our customers with heating and cooling, and we supply electricity to the Stockholm area. Today, more than 800,000 Stockholmers and around 400 locations – including hospitals, data centres, and other private and public sites – are connected to our district heating network, which is in turn connected to our heating and cogeneration plants. These facilities capture residual heat and transform biofuels and waste that can no longer, or should no longer, be recycled into energy for distribution to all our customers and the community.

At all points of our value chain, we and our business partners work to minimize our impact on people and the environment. In addition to removing heavy metals and other harmful substances from the environment during combustion, we seek to ensure that our own residual products can be used elsewhere in society.

What are we part of?

Through our distribution network, we are the core of Stockholm’s extensive energy supply and waste management infrastructure. This means that we face many of the same opportunities and challenges that Stockholm and our customers face.

Today, Stockholm and society at large are undergoing extensive change. Electrification and digitalisation are – together with increased resource efficiency and reduced climate impact – the societal trends that are most significant to our continued business and development.

Where are we headed?

At every point of our value chain, from energy production to use, we identify and develop solutions that meet ongoing changes for the benefit of our customers, employees, and society. We are focused on meeting the energy needs of the fast-growing Stockholm region, while at the same time improving sustainability by developing circular solutions and counteracting environmental impact.

• We enable increased electrification by developing our facilities and modernizing the district heating system. By creating more flexible district heating systems, we reduce pressure on overloaded electricity grids and generate electricity when needed. We are increasing collaboration between actors on electricity and heating markets with a view to establishing robust infrastructures with increased operational and delivery reliability.
• Through increased digitalisation, we are developing our customer offering, including in the smart property segment, where digital solutions such as thermal control gives customers better ways to optimize their energy use. Digitalisation is also helping us to streamline our own systems.
• We contribute to increase resource efficiency by optimizing and streamlining our own processes and by using renewable or recycled energy sources. We also create outlets for our own and others’ residual products throughout the entire value chain. In these ways, we are part of – and develop – the circular economy.
• We contribute to reduced environmental impact by phasing out fossil fuels and sorting plastic from the waste we incinerate. In addition, we are developing negative emissions technologies. We do this partly through co-production of heat and biochar, and partly through the separation of carbon dioxide from biofuel. We offer district heating with negative emissions to our customers.

We believe that it is our responsibility to continually develop our operations in line with the expectations of our customers, employees, and society as a whole to strengthen our long-term competitiveness. But we’re not satisfied with that. With our knowledge and expertise, we also want to be an enabler and a guide for the transition to an increasingly resource-efficient society and thereby contribute to sustainable development for all.

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