The foundation has been laid for joint efforts in projects that contribute to energy security, jobs and prosperity, writes Anders Hagelberg SWEDEN and SA have a longstanding and close relationship, largely as a result of Swedish support for the liberation movement.Seeing the needs and opportunities in SA’s energy space, Sweden’s Deputy Enterprise Minister Oscar Stenström leads 21 Swedish energy companies, clusters and authorities to African Utility Week, which starts in Cape Town today.Sweden has an increasingly strong focus on promoting sources of renewable energy to minimise carbon emissions and to create a diversified, sustainable energy mix. After an energy crisis in the 1970s, Sweden expanded the number of sources for electricity and heating. Indigenous sources, such as forests, provide residuals for biomass, while biogas is extracted from sewage and industries, transforming waste to energy.Today, household and industrial waste supplies fuel for combined heat-and power-producin...
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