FVB Energy Inc315 – 7851 Metro Drive , Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

FVB is a world leading, international consultant specializing solely in district energy with over one hundred district energy specialists employed world-wide.  

FVB is the abbreviation for Fjärrvärmebyrån (District Heating Bureau in English).  Fjärrvärmebyrån started as a government department in 1970 to assist municipalities develop District Heating Systems.  Whenever municipalities in Sweden needed help to develop their District Heating systems the government would send experts from the “Bureau” to assist them.  Eventually, the employees bought FVB and became a private consulting company.  Fjärrvärmebyrån has over a hundred employees world-wide and has consulted in DE for over 40 years working in over 30 countries.  Among other accomplishments, it designed the largest hot water district heating system in North America in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the 1980’s.  FVB began operating in the US in 1980 and eventually opened an office in Canada in 1992.  In Canada, FVB has offices in Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Ottawa.  In the United States, FVB offices are located in Minneapolis and Seattle.  The key quality that makes FVB unique as a consulting firm is a combination of business and technical skills focussed on DE.  FVB has used this unique combination of skills to develop 50 new DES in North America over the past 20 years.  In most of these projects, FVB developed the initial business case then followed through with system planning, marketing, design, construction and on-going support for operations and expansion.  FVB’s continued involvement with several operating DES that it designed has given it a rare window on the industry that is invaluable for development of business cases for new DES.

 FVB Energy has a successful track record of district energy projects:

• Start-up of over 30 District Energy Systems internationally.
• Over two hundred ETS’s designed, installed and operating in DE systems.
• Designed and installed over 53,000 trench metres of operating hot water distribution piping.
• Provided consulting services to 73% of North American district heating systems, and 79% of district    cooling systems that have been developed since 1990.
• Delivered design packages for creation of 28 District Energy Centres.