{"id":182315,"date":"2026-11-09T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=182315"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:32:16","slug":"miljardsatsning-pa-vatgas-i-skelleftea-trots-minnet-av-northvolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/a-billion-krona-investment-in-hydrogen-in-skelleftea-despite-the-memory-of-northvolt\/","title":{"rendered":"A billion-krona investment in hydrogen in Skellefte\u00e5\u2014despite the memory of Northvolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Skellefte\u00e5 is once again investing billions in green industry following Northvolt\u2019s collapse. But when politicians were set to make a decision on a new hydrogen plant, the entire risk analysis had been manipulated. Now there is growing concern that taxpayers will end up footing the bill.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early November, the Skellefte\u00e5 City Council approved investments totaling nearly 2.5 billion kronor for a planned fossil-free jet fuel plant. The entire facility is expected to cost over 30 billion kronor. The SkyKraft project is backed by the municipally owned Skellefte\u00e5 Kraft and the Dutch company SkyNRG. The initiative is driven, in part, by the EU\u2019s requirements for sustainable aviation fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The risks were concealed in the decision-making documentation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.affarsvarlden.se\/artikel\/skellefteas-nya-miljardprojekt-hela-riskanalysen-maskad?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The business world<\/strong><\/a>In the review, both the profitability assessment and the two-page risk analysis were redacted from the decision-making documentation. Despite this, 52 members voted in favor of the initiative, while only the Christian Democrats (KD) and the Sweden Democrats voted against it. The KD\u2019s caucus leader <strong>Per Bostr\u00f6m<\/strong> questions why a municipal company should bear the business risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 If the business idea is viable enough, it\u2019s up to the market to take the risk. Not ours, with a municipal company.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was despite the fact that Northvolt\u2019s battery factory was located in Skellefte\u00e5. That crash is considered one of the worst ever in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>No customers\u2014a billion-krona bill looms<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plant still lacks binding customer contracts. At the same time, the municipality is set to spend 1.12 billion kronor on soil remediation, with no guarantee that the money will be recouped through the sale of the land. Skellefte\u00e5 Kraft\u2019s CEO <strong>Joachim Nordin<\/strong> defends the confidentiality on the grounds that competitors should not be given access to the information and states that politicians were offered the opportunity to review the material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>City officials promise profitability<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chair of the Municipal Executive Board <strong>Lorents Burman<\/strong> (S) expects Skellefte\u00e5 Kraft to eventually sell part of its stake to private investors. He assures that the investment will not result in a loss. At the same time, the redacted documents raise the issue of public transparency and independent risk assessment before any further decisions involving billions are made.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Northvolt\u2019s collapse, Skellefte\u00e5 is investing billions more in green industry. But politicians were given a risk analysis in which key details were omitted<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":182319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1522,205],"tags":[3094,965,5066],"class_list":["post-182315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-mellan","category-nyheter","tag-northvolt","tag-skelleftea","tag-vatgas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}