Arlanda Energi, a unit of LFV, has been awarded the 2009 Swedish Energy Prize for its business model, which takes an integrated approach to the airport’s energy issues.
“Arlanda Energi works with the airport’s energy-related matters. But that actually involves much more – Arlanda Energi is a strategic tool for developing Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and thus international access to Stockholm and Sweden. For us and for everyone else, it means moving from word to action, from symbolic actions to those that make a difference,” says Airport Managing Director Kerstin Lindberg Göransson.
“Committed employees”
This is how the jury expressed its reasoning: “By focusing on energy, LFV – through Arlanda Energi – has created an incentive and a driving force for its successful efforts to reduce the airport’s energy use and environmental impact. Its work is carried out with the help of committed employees, a clear mission and a goal-oriented approach as the engine in their continuous effort to improve. These improvements include optimising existing equipment and introducing new technology.”
Long-term environmental programme
LFV, the State enterprise that operates Sweden’s major airports, is pursuing a continuous, long-term programme at all 16 of its airports with the objective of cutting carbon dioxide emissions in half by the end of 2010 and with a vision of running operations that are entirely emissions-free by 2020 at the latest. At year-end 2008, LFV’s carbon dioxide emissions had been reduced by a third compared to the base year, 2005.
Last year’s prize to Dalarna County Council
The energy consulting firm Sweco sponsors the Swedish Energy Prize, which has been awarded for 25 years. Jury members include Carl-Erik Nyquist, the former President and CEO of the energy company Vattenfall; Tomas Kåberger, Director General of the Swedish Energy Agency; and Lars Nilsson, Editor-in-Chief of the weekly Ny Teknik (‘New Technology’). Last year, the prize went to the Dalarna County Council for its success in reducing energy consumption in county hospitals and other properties by half.
Arlanda Energi’s business model is so successful that LFV is now introducing it at all of its airports through the establishment of LFV Energi.
Read more about the prize on Sweco’s website (new window)