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Hundreds of wind power plants for northern Sweden

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Over the next years, several hundred wind power parks are planned built in northern Sweden. Some of them might be constructed in the regional mining town of Kiruna.

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Wind power could become a billion dollar industry in the northern Swedish counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten, the company Kiruna Wagon believes. The company, originally specialized in construction of railway carriers for the regional mining industry, now wants to start producing wind power plants, Sveriges Radio reports. -This is a future investment. If one succeeds, we might get a market with 200-300 wind power plants per year. That is a billion dollar industry, company leader Fredrik Kangas says to SR.se. He believes the construction of wind mills does not much differ from the construction of railway carriers.