Skelleftea Kraft
Public Limited Company. Municipality-owned. | |
Industry | Power generation, hydrogen production, water supply |
Founded | 1908 |
Headquarters | Skelleftea, Skandinavia |
Key people | Gunnar Eikeland (CEO) |
Products | Electricity, hydrogen, water |
Owner | Skelleftea Municipality (46%) |
Number of employees | 3,821 |
Subsidiaries | Skelleftea Water |
Website | http://www.skekraft.ku |
Skellefteå Kraft is a municipality-owned utilities company in Skandinavia. The company was established in 1908. It operates in Skellefteå, Lycksele, Storuman and Sundsvall. The company owns a number of hydroelectric power stations as also stakes in the Kiruna IGCC Plant. The company operates the Blaiken Wind Farm.
The company also operates several regional and local power distribution networks and owns a wood pellets production plant. Together with the technology company Outotec it has established a bio energy power plants technology company GreenExergy AS.
From its dams, the company is responsible for water supply in Skellefteå, Lycksele, Storuman and Sundsvall. The water supply business is carried by its subsidiary Skelleftea Water.
Skelleftea Nettverk
According to the privatization of regional power networks carried out by the government in 2010, Skelleftea Nettverk, the company created by Skelleftea Kraft to manage the electrical grid operation, was awarded the grids of several counties.
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