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The electricity demand in Norrbotten County is expected to increase from 8 TWh in 2019 to 107 TWh in 2050. A contributing role to the large electricity demand in Norrbotten County is that LKAB will make large investments within the company. LKAB's electricity needs will increase from 2 TWh in 2020 to 50 TWh in 2040. LKAB believes that wind power is one of the best options for getting energy quickly at a low cost. The land construction, which is a large wind power project in Piteå municipality, was planned to build 1101 wind turbines that would produce 10–12 TWh per year. To build all the wind turbines, a land area of 450 square kilometers needs to be used. If you start from the ground construction, they will need 5000-5500 wind turbines to produce 50 TWh of energy. The area that needs to be used to build 5000-5500 wind turbines is then 2000-2,250 square kilometers. This means that future wind power installations will need access to large areas of land. But there are other interests that also have an interest in the same land and may have to compete with wind power for land in the future. The purpose of the study is to investigate and analyze which other interests are competing with potential new wind power establishments for land in Norrbotten County and to contribute to future wind power projects being sustainable.

The result shows that there are other interests that are also interested in land in Norrbotten County. The result also shows that trade-offs are made between different interests and that wind turbines have an impact on us humans. The interests brought out in the study and which may compete with wind power for land in the future are, outdoor life, nature conservation, reindeer husbandry, national park, nature reserve, water protection area, natura 2000, the Armed Forces, unbroken mountains, cultural environment conservation, commercial fishing, facilities for communication and human interests.