Wind power in Sweden


consumes about 150 terawatt hours of electricity per year, of which about 17.5 TW·h was generated from domestic wind power resources in 2017, up from 2.4% in 2010 and 0.3% in 2000.
In its official forecast as of 2019, the Swedish Wind Energy Association projects that cumulative wind power capacity in the country will rise to 12.8 GW by the end of 2022 - 91% higher than 2017's 6.7 GW. Such an expansion could increase the share of Sweden's electricity use met by wind power to over 20%.

Statistics

1 Excluding exports

Future developments

Swedish package and paper products company Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget and Norwegian power company Statkraft will invest 16 billion kronor in a project which will consist of around 400 wind turbines in seven wind farms in Jämtland and Västernorrland counties. Statkraft will provide financing and SCA the land.
The Markbygden Wind Farm will be a series of wind farms in Norrbotten County. The project will be built by 2020, and will have a capacity of up to 4 GW.
If built out, the 55 billion kronor project will be the largest wind farm in Europe.
The wind farm will cover some 450 square kilometres, comprising about 1,100 wind turbines, and is expected to produce up to 12 TW·h of electricity per year.

Controversy

The Association for Swedish Landscape Protection is in opposition to wind power. Their chairman says:
At the time of making the statement in 2011, wind power accounted for 4.3% of the electricity in Sweden as listed above. As of 2017 it accounted for 12.4%. Comparing the levelized cost of energy, as of November 2019 wind power was estimated at 28 to 54 USD per MWh, compared to 118 to 192 USD per MWh for nuclear power.