The aim of the Bredhälla BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) project in southeastern Sweden is to create a battery storage installation with a capacity of 43 MW. In Landskrona, another 250 kilometres to the south, just across the Øresund Strait from Denmark, the Swiss energy production and distribution company Axpo, which has been operating in Sweden since 2005, is also building a 20 MW battery storage facility. 

Kristoffer Ekman, Renewable Energy Business Unit Manager at Omexom Göteborg, is closely associated with both these major projects. “It’s exciting and hugely rewarding to work on projects like these that will have a direct impact on Sweden’s energy transition,” he says. 

Appointed to his post last January, 47-year-old Kristoffer Ekman’s current assignments are more compatible than ever with his personal tastes and values. “At VINCI Energies, I was able to expand my area of responsibility into a core strategy area for the Group that is particularly close to my heart: energy transition and environmental protection.” 

While his team currently numbers three people, Kristoffer Ekman fully intends to develop increasingly sustainable new products over the coming years, and thereby expand his business unit in terms of both activity and size. “I really appreciate the diverse nature of my duties, which are as technical as they are commercial and managerial, all with an entrepreneurial spirit that involves finding new projects and new customers. It requires a fair bit of creativity.”