Content from Luleå municipalityADThe innovations that the billion investments forcedpublished: June 24, 2024, 9:13 AM100 billion will be invested in Luleå Industripark in new climate-smart industry.A huge change that forced innovative solutions.– We would never have met the challenges if we had not dared to find new solutions, says Anna Lindh Wikblad, Deputy Director, Luleå Municipality.Billion investments in northern Sweden are estimated at over SEK 1,000 billion, an almost difficult-to-understand figure. Today, Norrbotten and Västerbotten are the hottest region in the EU in terms of the green industrial investments planned in, among other things, fossil-free steel and battery production. In Luleå alone, over 100 billion land at Luleå Industrial Park where SSAB, LKAB, Talga and Power2Earth and others will build new industries.However, being able to meet business and match all their needs is no small challenge. The situation has forced entirely new ways of working, so in a way the region has become a national test bed for both business and government.Anna Lindh Wikblad, Deputy Director of Luleå:– We see a debate in which we are facing southern Sweden in the north, but that polarization is based on a fundamental misconception. What we do here in the north is about securing AB Sweden's competitiveness internationally. So we have to step out of the sandbox now.– Right now we are leading the industrial transition in fossil-free steel, it was fossil-free iron sponge produced at Hybrit in Luleå that gave the fossil-free steel that was shown at the UN Climate Conference in New York as early as 2019. However, that advantage is now trying to race the whole world, so it is important that these plans can be implemented as soon as possible – for Sweden's sake.Lindh Wikblad believes that Sweden must now show that it is possible to manage a positive crisis. That we get massive growth that goes so fast that our normal work processes and systems can't handle it if you work as you usually do.When it comes to power distribution, for example, it led to a whole new way of working, now called the Luleå model. Through roundtables with all parties and stakeholders, ” could squeeze the air out of the system ” and release power corresponding to a nuclear block.– We need to think similarly now on more issues, set ourselves up early with all parties and find new ways of working that can meet the tough schedules of business. When it comes to rail and roads, permit tests and also the provision of skills. We must quickly create a consensus.The challenges will not be less forward, NATO is a new factor.– We have had similar approaches in the dialogue with the defense, which solved many things in new ways. It may sound banal, but we have to talk to each other. Don't work in our dips.– I know that we as a municipality have met Swedish power grids in a whole new proactive way and we get the signal from them that they expect to be able to shorten their work process by several year.. So, yes, it goes, if you just want to.– We believe that we can share our experiences and insights with the whole of Sweden, because new ways of working are created here with us, simply because we need to find new more effective solutions. Are you curious? Contact us, concludes Anna Lindh Wikblad.Read more about the future country
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