18 June 2019

Islands as Lighthouses for Europe’s Decarbonisation

• ENERGY AGENCY FOR SOUTHEAST SWEDEN

• The agency was established in 1999

• Since 2007 activities have been operated under the Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden Ltd.

• The company is jointly owned by an association where 3 regional assemblies and 25 municipalities in Blekinge, Kalmar and Kronoberg are members

• Isle of Öland is in the Kalmar county and have two municipalities

• Supporting the isle of Öland within CoM.Island project experience from Transplan, Isle Pact and Smilegov

Introduction

• Area of 1,342 square kms (518 square miles) Separated from the mainland by the Kalmar Strait and connected to it by the 6-kilometre Öland Bridge, since September 1972.

• Population 26.000 in winter, 250.000 in summer

• Three 10kV cables connecting the grid to the mainland

• “The island of the sun and the wind” have excellent conditions for PVs and wind power

• 110% electricity production of RES compared to final use

Isle of Öland, Sweden

Friends of the wind

• Filling station of purified Biogas for vehicle use

• 2,5M euro

• Private-public partnership

• Procurement in 2015

• 2 years in operation

Best practice: Biogas- the smartest fuel of all

• Technical: No energy storage and lack of capacity for PV parks and more offshore wind power

• Regulatory: Establishment of Biogas plant. NIMBY rules.

• Financing: Public authorities are frontrunners for RES in transports but cannot finance infrastructure for public use with tax money (example biogas as transport fuel)

• Licensing: As a tourist Island the energy demand peaks in three months to be reduced to 1/10 in the other nine months of the year. Very difficult to reach visitors with sustainable solutions competing with other tourist propaganda.

• Ownership: With only one small energy company on the island investments are decided by national or international energy companies. There are some bright examples of public-private partnerships, but it is regrettably not the highest local political priority. We also have local wind power communities, but they have been struggling the last years with no ROI.

Types of Öland challenges