September 01, 2025

Innovation story

Shaping tomorrow’s district heating

 

 

Aerial view of Gothenburg city at dusk

Together with our partners, we enable the transition to a low-carbon society. A long-standing example is found in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. As early as the 1980s, local energy company Göteborg Energi installed a gigantic heat pump to turn wastewater into energy for district heating. The solution still runs and is now being upgraded to serve the city for many decades to come.

Watch a video about Göteborg Energi’s heat pump solution.

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How turbo compressors play a crucial part for Stockholm's district heating

As the world wakes up to the urgent need for alternatives to fossil fuels, Sweden’s capital Stockholm already has a fully functioning energy solution that has been up and running for more than half a century.
Stockholm Exergi district heating reference image

The hunt for the unknown

Deep beneath Swiss soil, hidden from the eyes of the world, lies a technical marvel of gigantic proportions.
The ATLAS and CMS detectors at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland use precision measurements to record the path, momentum and energy of released particles. The CMS detector studies particles produced in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions.

VSD reduced energy usage for metal recycling

Did you know that your mobile phone is a veritable gold mine? Boliden Rönnskär is one the world’s leading smelters for recovery of metals. Here circuit boards are converted into pure metal which can be used in new products. The process is energy intensive, but with the assistance of Atlas Copco the smelter is now on the right track to reduce its energy consumption by more than 1 million kWh per year.
Boliden Rönnskär in northern Sweden is one of the world’s leading players in electronics metal recycling.