News from Elfack
9 December / 2024
Power Woman of the Year: “Everyone in the industry benefits from greater gender equality”
Gender equality is not just a matter of fairness.
- In my experience, a diverse workforce produces the best results. It creates greater dynamism in the company, which favours both innovation and profitability.
This is the opinion of Ulrika Tornerefe...
6 December / 2024
Tomorrow’s battery solutions face changed conditions
Batteries, both for vehicles and stationary energy storage, have seen a booming market in recent years and have been identified as a key component of the energy transition. Interest in stationary batteries has grown as they are rapidly integrated into the electricity grid and they both st...
At Elfack the Swedish Energy Agency will meet players in the industry to share knowledge and promote cooperation in the transition to a sustainable energy system. The Swedish Energy Agency’s four focus areas at the fair are energy preparedness and robust energy systems, smart products, lighting...
6 November / 2024
Sweden’s smartest neighbourhood takes shape
Tamarinden in Örebro is paving the way for the climate-smart neighbourhoods of the future, in which a unique and localised electricity supply system can reduce, produce, store and share energy.
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11 October / 2024
Innovation driving the efficient electrification of industry
An innovative collaboration project is starting this autumn in Trollhättan. With a focus on power efficiency, the aim is to find solutions for electrical systems and industrial transformation.
- We will test solutions that have never been tried before in Sweden and pr...
11 October / 2024
Wood – A game changer for the energy industry
There’s lots going on in terms of development in the renewable energy industry. An example is the work underway at the tech company Modvion in Gothenburg. They use modern and innovative technology to build sustainable wind turbines with wood as the material.
Just o...
At the age of 18, she started working as an electrician. Today, 27 years later, she has been appointed CEO of the Swedish Installation Federation. In her new role, Saira Alladin wants to drive progress around efficient electricity use.
- Simply producing more energy ...
12 June / 2024
Swedish Energy Award is presented at Elfack
In connection with Elfack, the Swedish Energy Award is presented. This award aims to promote innovation, stimulate collaboration within the energy industry, and accelerate the transition to a sustainable society by highlighting energy-efficient solutions.
12 June / 2024
The role of hybrid parks in a smarter energy system
The emerging importance of renewable energy presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Our journey towards a carbon-neutral future is accelerating and giving rise to many exciting innovations. Ludvig Bydén, a business developer at Swedish Solar Energy, is actively promoting the develo...
12 June / 2024
The two pillars of the energy transition: Technological innovation and skills development
The search for sustainable energy solutions presents challenges that require both technology and skills development. Magnus Kuschel, Innovation Manager at Innovatum Science Park, shares his perspectives on how the energy industry needs to adapt and integrate different energy sources and t...
The large-scale electrification of Sweden will remain a pipe dream without updated power centres, switchgear and control cabinets.
- Our industry is an important player in the green transition. But unfortunately rather forgotten, says Linda Take, CEO of SKE, Svensk K...
6 May / 2024
Sustainable trends in focus at Elfack: out with fluorescent tubes, in with charging infrastructure!
Industry associations will raise sustainability issues at Elfack 2025.
- If we are to move away from fossil fuels, we need to build the charging infrastructure. And if we are to save energy, we must phase out fluorescent tubes, says Mikael Castanius, CEO of trade assoc...
22 February / 2024
Electrically safe – new school material from The National Electrical Safety Board
You can read about new learning content to promote electrical safe...
22 February / 2024
How smart are smart grids – if households are not involved?
Industries and governments are making policy decisions on smart grids to meet rapidly growing energy demand. But there is a hidden problem: no one has spoken to end users.
- If you don’t take into account the differences between households, you won’t get the desired ...
- We are employing 1,000 new people this year and need to recruit another 1,000 in the coming year, says Claes Wedén, marketing manager at Hitachi Energy, who urges more people to join the industry.
Hitachi Energy is one of the leading technology providers in the el...
11 December / 2023
Update steps up and joins Elfack 2025
Update by Elfack focuses on the industry’s fastest growing technology areas. Developments in these areas have a major impact on the entire electricity industry and therefore Update by Elfack is now moving from being a separate event in 2024 to become a conference and will take place 7-8...
20 October / 2023
Wago: Energy efficiency is the most important trend in all categories
What trends are dominating the electricity industry right now? If you ask Niklas Persson, Sales Manager at Wago, the answer is simple: energy efficiency.
- Everyone wants to know what technology is available in this area, because with today’s prices, no one is interest...
- An enclosure is an enclosure, but it’s the unique solutions that we can put into them that help our customers deal with the challenges of electrification, says Fredrik Wåhlstrand, CEO of Rittal.
For more than 50 years, Rittal has delivered system solutions to va...
5 October / 2023
Elpress: Successful electrification requires attention to detail
Electrification is driving new strategies, visions and ideas in industry after industry. But if the vision is to be realised, the infras...
22 September / 2023
Schneider on the skills shortage: The energy industry must become attractive to more segments within the labour market
“A diversified electricity industry” is the name of the major initiative launched by several industry players on the second day of...
22 September / 2023
SG Armaturen: New EU requirements boost sales
In September, the last exemption for the sale and production of fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps in the EU will disappear. This is f...
More than 70 per cent of the world’s electricity flows through the grid with the help of products from Siemens, and at Elfa...
20 June / 2023
SolarEdge: Solar energy is a natural part of Elfack
The energy technology company SolarEdge exhibited at Elfack for the first time.
- At first we thought we would only exhibit at s...
– This government is doing precisely what’s needed to worsen the skills supply in our industry!
This is t...
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Energy efficiency is placing high demands on the electricity industry in the EU. In Sweden alone, up to 20 million luminair...
It’s the first and largest podcast by electricians, for electricians. And now it’s making its premiere at ...
26 April / 2023
Biggest stand ever – why Hager is investing heavily in Elfack
–The future is electric. We want to show what we can contribute, not least when it comes to microgrids and resi...