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Green data centres make Stockholm unique in the world
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The Internet service provider Bahnhof and the energy company Fortum Värme have signed a pact for large-scale heat recovery from “Green Hub” data centre in central Stockholm planned by Bahnhof.
Fortum Värme will be supplying cooling to Bahnhof, which in turn plans to sell back surplus heat to the district heating system.
The ability of data centres to sell excess heat, which previously went to waste, at market prices make Stockholm one of a kind place to establish the operations.
“This is an important step to recover as much energy as possible from the expanding global IT sector,” says Anders Egelrud CEO at Fortum Värme. “We hope that the Open District Heating business model, will attract a huge number of international data centres to set up in Stockholm, but also helps to accelerate the development of Stockholm towards a complete fossil-free system.”
Energy recovery is a competitive advantage for Stockholm that offers the opportunity to take a leading position as Europe’s primary hub for IT companies.
“Stockholm, with its proven expertise in the IT sector, excellent business climate and its well-developed district heating systems is ideally placed to be a global centre for the growing data centre industry,” says Karin Wanngård, financial commissioner at the City of Stockholm.
“Heat recovery from this future sector can contribute to make Stockholm an international forerunner in sustainable cities.”
Bahnhof’s data centre will be the largest data centre in Stolkholm when it is established in 2016-2017.
After being fully developed, it will be able to recover 112 GWh of heat per year to the district heating network.
This is equivalent to the entire supply of district heating to a town of about 20,000 inhabitants.
The agreement between Fortum Värme and Bahnhof includes a heat recovery system and a separate system for free cooling.
“Having a heat recovery system and a parallel system for free cooling will allow us to build one of the world’s greenest data centres with very competitive prices at the same time.
With Green Hub, we have demonstrated that it is smart to put data centres in city and recover energy instead of heating up the sky,” says Bahnhof CEO Jon Karlung.
The new data centre will get its electricity supplied directly from a new substation being built by Ellevio.
“We will be making a substantial new investment to facilitate Bahnhof’s expansion,” says Johan Lindehag, CEO of Ellevio.
The proximity to the main grid station in combination with a brand new substation will provide Bahnhof with a secure and scalable grid connection.
About Open District Heating:
The Open District Heating (Fjärrvärme®) business concept, enable the recovery of energy from which all parties will benefit.
Previously a lot of energy ended up waste. Fortum has carried out similar set-ups with server halls in Finland.
About Fortum Värme:
Fortum Värme produces district heating,cooling and electricity. The company has contributed to Stockholm being counted among the world’s cleanest capital cities and that Stockholm was designated by the EU as the world’s first environmental capital – Green Capital. Between the years 2010–2015, Fortum Värme invested SEK 7 billion in combined heat and power production in the Stockholm region.
District heating will be entirely be produced from renewable and recovered energy no later than 2030.
The company has 9,500 district heating and cooling customers.
Fortum Värme is jointly owned by Fortum (90.1% of the shares and 50.1% of the votes) and the City of Stockholm (9.9% of the shares and 49.9% of the votes).
In 2013 the owners signed a new shareholder agreement, from 1 January 2016, ownership of the company will be equally shared. In conjunction with this, the owner’s agreed that Fortum Värme will be self-financed. In April 2015 Fortum Värme received a BBB+ rating from Standard & Poor’s.
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