Umeå Energi is an energy company based in the town of Umeå in Sweden. It is responsible for the supply of electricity, along with providing district cooling, district heating as well as broadband services through a subsidiary by the name of UmeNet.

Operations

Umeå Energi has a power plant at Ålidhem that generates energy in the form of heat from various sources including household, industrial wastes and biomass. The heat generated is used to drive turbines. The company operates a second set of power plants at Dava that runs on cogeneration, or combined heat and power, thus generating power from wastes and biomass. There are two plants at Dava. The first Dava plant’s main power source is burning waste which it can do at 20 tonnes per hour creating 65 MW of power. Most of this energy is used for district heating with only 10 MW used to create electricity. The plant also burns waste from the logging industry. Air pollution is kept to a minimum due to filtration systems on the exhaust gases. The second Dava plant creates 105 MW of power from a similar fuel mix as the other older plant, but with the addition of peat. In this case only 30MW is used for electricity. Apart from these two power stations, the company also operates a hydroelectric power plant, a wind farm, and also generates power using sewerage wastes.