For Finland to meet its EU targets for the use of renewable energy by 2020, a considerable increase in the use of wood for energy is necessary. We compare scenarios in which the wood energy targets are fully or partially met to a reference case where policies favoring wood based energy production are removed.
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Over a million cubic meters of storage space filled with 140-degree water. The seasonal thermal energy storage facility will be built in Vantaa''s bedrock, where a total of three caverns about 20 meters wide, 300 meters long and 40 meters high will be excavated. The bottom of the caverns will be 100 meters below ground level.
February 8, 2024. A wind farm in Finland owned by Helen, a utility. Image: Helen Oy. Finnish utility Helen is launching a 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Nurmijärvi, southern Finland, and aims to begin commercial operation in 2025. The project is being developed by investor Evli-Rahastoyhtiö Oy, which will continue as a ...
The company will put the funding towards a rollout of its Distributed Energy Storage (DES) solution across its network with an expected total energy storage capacity of 150MWh. Finland telecoms firm Elisa has received €3.9 million from the government to form a VPP using batteries, potentially the largest in Europe.
New electric boilers with a capacity of 120 megawatts and an extended thermal energy storage (TES) facility have just been put into operation in Vaskiluoto, Vaasa. This brings the total capacity of the electric boilers at the Vaasan Voima plant to 160 MW, which places the boilers in Vaasa among the most powerful in Finland in terms of …
The updated Climate Change Act, implemented in July 2022, legally binds Finland to attain carbon neutrality by 2035, with specific emission reduction targets of 60% by 2030, 80% by 2040, and 90-95% by 2050 (Ilmastolaki). Greenhouse gas emissions from energy production have decreased from 56.1 Mt CO2-eq to 37.6 Mt2-eq.
Together with the wood burned in small-scale housing, total consumption of solid wood fuels amounted to 31 million cubic metres and 62.1 terawatt-hours. According to the data of the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), heating and power plants consumed a total of 24.0 million solid cubic metres (46 terawatt hours) of solid wood fuels …