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The International Experience46Sweden – Solar City MalmöThe Swedish city of Malmö is a municipality of 280,000 inhabitants located in SouthernSweden. It is the third largest city in Sweden and it participates in the International SolarCity’s Project. 13 Solar City Malmö is a non-profit association working hard to increaseawareness of solar energy and to increase the use of distributed generated solar power.The aim is to make Malmö the leading solar energy centre in the country and to assume aninternational role as a model city for solar energy.The key role of Solar City Malmö is to support and develop the solar energy industry insouthern Sweden. Primary activities include the demonstration and promotion of solar PVand solar thermal systems.Solar City Malmö are also involved in an advocacy role for which they are lobbying for theimplementation of a feed-in tariffs system in Sweden. At the moment there are no feed-inpolicies in Sweden. The only incentive mechanism for the uptake of PV Solar is governmentfunding of 70% of the cost of PV installations on public buildings. To date approximately €15million has been spent on solar between 2005 and 2008.Solar City Malmö also organises training sessions, seminars, exhibitions, study visits, themedays, conferences, technology competitions, information meetings for businesses, installersand councils, education for students, and advisory and dissemination services.Malmö has set a high target for reduction of CO 2 emissions by an average of 25% over theperiod 2008 - 2012, compared to 1990 levels. This exceeds targets set by other nations. Toachieve this goal, a number of significant measures have been taken in the energy, transportand building sectors over the past few years.Solar PV and Solar ThermalSolar energy can be primarily harnessed in two ways, by solar collectors that produce hotwater (thermal), and by Solar PV that produce electricity. There are more than 4000m 2 ofsolar thermal collectors and 2500m 2 of PV have been installed so far in schools, museum,hospitals, industrial buildings etc.13 http://www.solarcity.org/industry.htm