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Background
The municipality of Växjö has for a long time successfully worked with environmental issues. One of the issues in focus has been to work for a "Fossil fuel free Växjö". In 1996, the executive committee of Växjö municipality unanimously decided to stop using fossil fuels in the activities of the municipality. To reach these goals, it was necessary to shift from fossil fuels to bioenergy in the heating and transport sector. The municipality needed, and still need, to put more effort into energy efficiency. Since 1996 a lot of work has been done to reduce the use of fossil fuels. It is mainly in the heating sector that the use of fossil fuels has decreased. In the transport sector and energy supply sector effort has been taken but the decrease of fossil CO2 emissions is not as great as in the heating sector.
As part of the work for a "Fossil fuel free Växjö" the municipality decided to buy green electricity in a "power portfolio". The overall aim of buying green electricity was to reduce the fossil CO2 emissions from energy consumption and to act as a role model for the municipality inhabitants and companies.
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