Life on board ESS

Today was the warmest day of the year in southern Sweden with temperatures reaching 26ºC. It was the day to drop everything (well almost everything!) and head to the coast. And why should the ESSS Secretariat be any different? So off we went to Lillgrund - not for ice-cream and sunshine - but instead for windmills and... yes, wind. And although there was plenty of sunshine, there was plenty of wind also. A day to get sunburned if you had a mind to do such a thing.

In fact we were signing an agreement with Vattenfall, the big Swedish energy company, at their coastal maintenance station for the 48 windmill wind park newly installed just south of the communications artery - the Öresund Bridge, or the Øresund bridge if you're from the west - connecting Sweden and Denmark. This wind park is rated at 110 MW. ESS Scandinavia's energy strategy features the use (and indeed ownership) of 35 MW of renewable energy production and the recycling of cooling water from ESS into the Lund District Heating and Cooling system to render ESS climate neutral. We have the wind at our back that's for sure.

Traditional Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
The sun shine warm upon your face
The rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

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