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Country profile: Sweden
| Location: | Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway |
| Climate: | temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north |
| Terrain: | mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west |
| Size: | 449964 sq. km total (Land area: 410934 sq. km Water area: 39030 sq.km) |
| Population: | 9,045,389 (July 2008 est.) |
| Languages: | Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| Government: | constitutional monarchy |
| Capital city: | Stockholm |
| Legal system: | civil law system influenced by customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| Currency: | Swedish krona (SEK) |
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Country profile
A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war in almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both World Wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries.
Sweden joined the EU in 1995, but the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum.
Energy production and consumption
| Oil | Gas | |
| Production: | 2,350 bbl/day (2005 est.) | |
| Consumption: | 363,200 bbl/day (2005 est.) | 893 million cu m (2005 est.) |
| Exports: | 231,100 bbl/day (2005 est.) | |
| Imports: | 580,600 bbl/day (2005 est.) | 893 million cu m (2005 est.) |
| Reserves: | NaN | |
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Sweden - recent news
| 03 Feb 26 |
Sweden: Nordex Group secures 189 MW order from OX2 in Sweden The Nordex Group has received a new order from the Swedish renewable energy company OX2 for the supply and installation of wind turbines for the Fageråsen Wind Farm in Sweden. |
| 25 Jan 26 |
Sweden: RWE and Aneo sign transaction agreement for the sale of RWE’s Swedish wind activities RWE and Aneo, a Nordic renewables player, have signed a transaction agreement concerning RWE’s Swedish wind activities, including onshore assets and development pipeline. |
| 16 Dec 25 |
Sweden: Europe's first 'wind power-built' car park inaugurated The new Niels Bohr car park in Lund, Sweden, was recently inaugurated, a building partly constructed from disused rotor blades from wind turbines. The building is the first of its kind in Europe and has a façade made from rotor blades from Vattenfall's now decommissioned Nørre Økse Sø wind farm. |
| 20 Nov 25 |
Sweden: RWE supplies power under long term wind offtake agreement to Carlsberg Sweden’s brewery in Falkenberg RWE, a global leader in renewable energy, has signed an eight-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Carlsberg Sverige, one of Sweden’s largest beverage companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Carlsberg will source electricity produced from the nearby Örken onshore wind farm to power its brewery in Falkenberg, Halland. |
| 18 Nov 25 |
Modvion enters Grant Agreement Preparation for €39 million grant from the EU Innovation Fund The Swedish wood technology company Modvion has been selected by the European Commission to enter Grant Agreement Preparation by the Innovation Fund. The grant of up to €39.1 million will be used to establish series production for wooden wind turbine towers. |
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