Fortum and Metsähallitus agree to reserve two sea areas in the Bay of Bothnia for large scale wind power generation
Fortum CorporationPress release17 June 2008Fortum and Metsähallitus agree to reserve two sea areas in the Bay of Bothniafor large scale wind power generation Fortum and Metsähallitus (The National Forest Enterprise) have made areservation agreement on the state-owned Pitkämatala and Maakrunni sea areas inthe municipalities of Kemi, Simo and Ii for large scale wind power generation.Both areas have been marked as wind power areas in the land use plans forLapland and Northern Ostrobothnia provinces. According to a preliminary survey, a 800-900 megawatt offshore wind farm can bebuilt