Reports: Sweden on track for 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2040

Madeleine Cuff
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Renewables are already producing more than half of Sweden's power

Sweden is on track to produce all its electricity from renewable sources within the next 25 years, thanks in part to a major planned expansion in the country's onshore wind capacity. Anne Vadasz Nilsson,...

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