• Several companies want to build wind farms in northern Sweden, to meet the expected sharp increase in demand for electricity from new green industries.
• But the time it takes for wind farms to get building permits threatens so-called green industrial projects in the north, according to Swedish Radio News.
• – Today it can be a problem that you get to know late in the process that the plans do not go through, says vice president of Jämtkraft, Ylva Andersson.

Related stories from all over the Nordics:

Canada: Community in northern Quebec to take the step from diesel to hydropowerCBC News

Finland: Lapland among regions that are not for wind power compensation for eastern Finland, Yle Nyheter

Norway: Will the green transition be the new economic engine in the Arctic ?, Eye on the Arctic

Sweden: Sweden’s solar cell industry sees a bright future despite shrinking subsidiesSwedens radio

United States: Alaska’s Northwest Arctic Borough receives $ 2 million in tribal energy grants, Alaska Public Media