This is Skellefteå Kraft
Skellefteå Kraft is a whollyowned municipal jointstock company and one of the largest energy companies in Sweden.
The company is divided into five areas of business: Electric power, Electric networks, Heating, Properties and Communication, with operations in Skellefteå, Lycksele, Storuman, Sundsvall and Jakobstad, Finland.
With our own energy supplies, personal knowledge and continuous development, we create quality, reliability and competence. This enables us to offer our customers priceworthy and longterm environmentfriendly energy solutions as well as secure and reliable energy deliveries.
Today, we are an important player on the energy market of Norrland. We intend to keep this position and strengthen it in the future. Our trademark stands for Power, Reliability, Environmental responsibility and Development.
We consist of 470 employees. The turnover during the year of 2006 was SEK 3.2 billion.
Major producer of renewable electric power
Skellefteå Kraft founded its first power station in Finnfors by the river Skellefteå in 1908. Today, we are the owners of more than 20 power stations along the rivers Skellefteälven, Umeälven, Indalsälven and a few smaller streams, as well as part owners of Sikfors power station on the river Piteälven.
We are also part owners of Forsmark´s nuclear power station and Alholmen´s heating power station in Jakobstad, Finland. In addition, the heating power station production capacity is based on biofuels. All in all, this makes Skellefteå Kraft one the largest producers of electricity in the country. The normal yearly production amounts to 3,850 GWh.
Own networks with reliable service
Skellefteå Kraft has its own regional and local electricity networks. The operation is run within the company Skellefteå Kraft Elnät and also includes services connected to the electricity network.
The electricity network exists within nine municipalities in middle and northern Västerbotten as well as in southern Lapland. The total length of the network is 11,695 kilometres. We supply approximately 70,000 customers with electricity via these networks.
The operational reliability of our electricity networks is very high.
This is a result of extensive, continuous maintenance of forest routes since the middle of the 80´s, and a welldeveloped operational surveillance system.
Heating and cooling in extensive culvert network
Skellefteå Kraft has extensive production, distribution and sales of district heating and cooling.
District heating is mainly produced using biofuels at the heating power stations at Hedensbyn in Skellefteå and Malå, as well as Lycksele. In some cases, excess heat is used from larger industries for the production of district heating.
Thanks to the interest of companies in central Skellefteå, in district cooling, the extension of the district cooling network during the next few years will intensify.
The number of district heating customers is approximately 4,500 with a sales volume of 657 GWh.
Heating power station at Hedensbyn
Own production of biopellets
Next to the heating power station at Hedensbyn in Skellefteå there is a very modern production plant for wood pellets. The raw material is mainly collected from saw mills within the region and consists principally of sawdust.
Our wood pellets are sold under the trademark of Solett to home owners, heating plants, adjacent heating facilities, smaller central heating and district heating networks.
Our customers are mainly found in northern Sweden, but considerable amounts are also transported by boat or trailers to larger customers in other parts of the country.
During the year 2006, a total of 118,430 tonnes Solett was delivered to more than 9,000 customers. In Storuman, a new bioenergy polygeneration plant for the production of wood pellets, electricity and heat will begin operations during 2008.
Future communications
Skellefteå Kraft is developing a modern infrastructure for services within telecom and data communications. Our broadband network, SkeKraft.net, is based on strong fibreoptical and radiobased connections. The network includes slightly less than 20,000 connections today.
A change process has begun where a division of the broadband network and broadband services is ongoing. A new service platform will be completed by 2008 which means an increased range of and competiveness for broadband services, to the customer´s advantage.
Our goal is to via SkeKraft.net and independent, private service suppliers, be able to offer a feast of qualityensured services, among them internet, telephony and television. The network will naturally continue maintenance and development in order for SkeKraft.net to continue to be one of the best networks in Sweden.
Premises for rent in expansive district
Skellefteå Kraft administers and leases premises in the Sirius district.
An area of 56,700 m2 includes offices, a city library, a hotel, a restaurant and an extensive congress and conference facility.
The district is profiled as the Expolaris Center with an alignment towards service companies, media and culture. The premises have a consistently high standard, modern exterior and interior with highly flexible design. This concept has all in all resulted in a very high degree of leasing.
Expolaris Center
An increase in demand for premises has resulted in plans for further development and expansion of the district with new office buildings in order to strengthen the profile as a growth centre for new service companies.
The district has more than a half million visitors per year. We currently lease premises to about 60 company owners.
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