Skellefteå Kraft is a municipality-owned power company in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. The company was established in 1908. It operates in Skellefteå

Skellefteå

-Industry:*Boliden AB, a big mining and smelting company*Alimak*Natural User Interface Technologies AB - NUITEQ, a promising emerging technology start-up company-Sports:*Skellefteå AIK, an ice hockey team in the highest Swedish league, Elitserien....

, Lycksele

Lycksele

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, Storuman

Storuman

Storuman is a locality and the seat of Storuman Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 2,255 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...

 and Sundsvall

Sundsvall

-External links:* - Official site from Nordisk Familjebok - Sundsvalls tourist information bureau. - The alternative guide to Sundsvall. - Blog with photos from Sundsvall....

 in Sweden, and in Jakobstad

Jakobstad

Jakobstad is a town and municipality in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The town has a population of and covers a land area of . The population density is .- History :...

 in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. The company owns a number of hydroelectric power stations as also stakes in the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste...

 and Alholmens Kraft Power Station

Alholmens Kraft Power Station

The Alholmens Kraft Power Station is the largest biomass power station in the world, at an installed capacity of 265 MW. The facility employs 400 people and is located at the factory premises of United Paper Mills in Alholmen, Jakobstad in Finland. The plant uses wood-based biofuels as the...

. In cooperation with Fortum

Fortum

Fortum Oyj is a Finnish publicly listed energy company, which focuses on the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and the north-west of Russia. After acquisition of Russian energy company TGC-10 in year 2008, Western Siberia has become an important operating area for Fortum. The head of the company...

, the company develops the Blaiken wind farm

Blaiken wind farm

Blaiken wind farm is a planned onshore wind farm at Blaiken, northern Sweden. The project consists of 100 turbines with a total capacity of 250 MW. The project is developed by Blaiken Vind AB, a joint venture of Skellefteå Kraft and Fortum . The construction to start in 2011 and to be...

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The company also operates several regional and local power distribution networks and owns a wood pellets production plant. Together with the technology company Outotec

Outotec

Outotec Oyj is a Finnish company, headquartered in Espoo, aimed at providing technologies and services for the metal and mineral processing industries...

it has established a bio energy power plants technology company GreenExergy AB.