Vattenfall plans gigawatt-scale wind farm in Swedish Arctic Circle

It aims to build the 2600MW Storlandet Storlandet (2600MW) OnshoreBoden and Gällivare, Norrbotten County, Sweden, Europe Click to see full details project across multiple phases in Boden and Gällivare municipalities, and believes it could be in operation before 2030.

The Swedish utility had initially planned for the wind farm to have 120 turbines with a combined capacity of 550MW, but has now boosted the planned capacity more than four-fold.

It anticipates “very high” demand for the project as local industry aims to replace fossil raw materials with clean electricity.

Once the project’s 373 turbines are operational, Storlandet will be one of the largest onshore wind clusters in Europe.

Vattenfall’s project development for onshore wind power Daniel Gustafsson said: “By concentrating more wind turbines on the predetermined land surface, we can also ensure that we are as surface-efficient as possible.”

The company’s development manager for industrial collaborations, Mikael Nordlander, added that while fossil-free electricity is already available in northern Sweden, more will be needed – including electricity produced locally.