Energy score
Clean-energy readiness, grid resilience, and solar or efficiency opportunity signals.
Energy in Stockholm92/100
Energy
Energy Readiness in Stockholm
Stockholm benefits from a low-carbon national grid and a long-running district energy and biofuel transition. Energy in Stockholm scores 92/100, placing it in the leading group of the indexed set.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 92/100
Energy readiness
92/100
Strong directional transition score across infrastructure and policy.
Grid adaptation
Advanced
Renewable share and infrastructure investment support resilience.
Renewable opportunity
Mixed
Solar is modest; wind, hydro, and bioenergy carry the transition.
Stockholm energy data table
This HTML table mirrors the visible score cards so important comparison data is never trapped in a browser-only chart.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Energy readiness | 92/100 | District energy and electrification are mature. |
| Grid adaptation | Advanced | Northern-Europe planning capacity is a strength. |
| Renewable opportunity | Mixed | Resource mix shapes the local transition path. |
Energy city comparison
A crawlable comparison across a selection of same-country and top-scoring cities. The complete set is reachable via the rankings, the cities index, and each city profile.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Stockholm (this page) | 92/100 | Stockholm benefits from a low-carbon national grid and a long-running district energy and biofuel transition. |
| Malmö | 84/100 | Malmö's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Gothenburg | 84/100 | Gothenburg's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Kalmar | 84/100 | Kalmar's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Kristianstad | 84/100 | Kristianstad's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Växjö | 82/100 | Växjö's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Täby | 82/100 | Täby's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Örebro | 80/100 | Örebro's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Norrköping | 80/100 | Norrköping's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Uppsala | 80/100 | Uppsala's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Lund | 80/100 | Lund's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Nyköping | 80/100 | Nyköping's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Trollhättan | 80/100 | Trollhättan's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Västerås | 78/100 | Västerås's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Tumba | 78/100 | Tumba's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Gävle | 77/100 | Gävle's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Halmstad | 76/100 | Halmstad's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Södertälje | 76/100 | Södertälje's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Borås | 74/100 | Borås's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Eskilstuna | 73/100 | Eskilstuna's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Luleå | 72/100 | Luleå's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Östersund | 66/100 | Östersund's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Sundsvall | 65/100 | Sundsvall's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Karlskrona | 62/100 | Karlskrona's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Helsingborg | 50/100 | Helsingborg's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Umeå | 50/100 | Umeå's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Linköping | 50/100 | Linköping's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Jönköping | 50/100 | Jönköping's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Karlstad | 50/100 | Karlstad's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Visby | 50/100 | Visby's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Reykjavik | 95/100 | Reykjavik's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
Interpretation
Energy pages combine resource context, infrastructure maturity, and adaptation capacity rather than headline renewable share alone. Across the indexed cities the energy average is 64/100, so Stockholm is 28 points above the median. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 3 institutional references.
Read this module with the main open the stockholm city profile and the read the scoring methodology page so single-topic pages do not hide tradeoffs across dimensions.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
3 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.
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