Bioenergy International
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Sweden has successfully begun a transition to a low-carbon energy system, reducing domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 24 percent from 1990 to 2014 and by more than 40 percent since the mid-1970s. The share of fossil fuel energy in heating is below 5 percent having been replaced by both district heating and electricity. However, the heat energy system is still locked into supply-dominated heat production, a new Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) policy brief highlights.
Sweden has successfully begun a transition to a low-carbon energy system, reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent from 1990 to 2014 and by more than 40 percent since the mid-1970s. In terms of energy for heating, the share of fossil fuels is now below 5 percent.
This has been achieved by removing oil and other fossil fuels for heating in both detached homes and blocks of flats over the past 50 years. Fossil fuel energy has been replaced by both district heating and electricity through resistive heating and heat pumps, which provide up to 75 percent of the energy demand for heating in buildings.
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