Sweden Switches On a New Wind Farm to Power Fossil-Free Industry

In the forests of Eksjö municipality in southern Sweden, a new source of clean power has come fully online. On May 20, 2026, the energy company Vattenfall inaugurated the Bruzaholm onshore wind farm, a project that had been under construction since the summer of 2023. With 21 turbines now spinning, it joins the steady, unglamorous work of replacing fossil fuels one wind farm at a time — and it does so in a part of the country that has long needed more electricity than it produces.

The numbers tell a confident story. Each of the 21 Siemens Gamesa turbines is rated at 6.6 megawatts and stands up to 240 metres tall at the blade tip, giving the farm a combined capacity of 139 megawatts. Together they are expected to generate roughly 460 gigawatt-hours of electricity every year — enough to supply around 91,500 households in Sweden's SE3 power zone. Crucially, all of it is fossil-free, produced from nothing more than the wind moving over the landscape.

“On May 20, 2026, the energy company Vattenfall inaugurated the Bruzaholm onshore wind farm, a project that had been under construction since the summer of 2023.”

Bruzaholm is also a glimpse of how clean energy and heavy industry can be wired together. Vattenfall has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with the truckmaker AB Volvo, allocating roughly half the farm's output to the company's Swedish operations, including a planned battery factory in Mariestad. Pairing the wind farm with a 38-megawatt Fluence battery storage system helps smooth out the natural variability of wind, storing power and releasing it when the grid needs it most.

There is an honest perspective to keep. A single 139-megawatt onshore wind farm is a modest piece of the vast build-out the energy transition demands, and onshore wind can raise local concerns about landscape, noise and wildlife that must be managed carefully. But projects like Bruzaholm are exactly how the transition actually happens — not in one dramatic leap, but through hundreds of well-built, fossil-free power plants feeding homes and factories. For a region hungry for clean electricity, the wind over Eksjö is now quietly doing useful work.