Yes, we actually have some similarities with you because even if Sweden is a much smaller country, still it's not densely populated. We have quite long distances between our cities and villages as well.
The systems we have are locally based. We have district heating systems based on the local sources. We use energy sources from the neighbourhood. Either it's wood that we use, the biomass, or if we have geothermal opportunities, we use heat pumps and bring energy from the ground. If there is a big incineration plant, we use that. Especially if there are big industries with waste heat, we use the waste heat.
So it's always the opportunity of using the local possibilities when developing new energy supply systems to integrate between the supply and the demand.