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Bioenergy share must be increased, but at a reasonable price

The CEO of Stora Enso, Jouko Karvinen, agrees with Finland’s goal to raise the bioenergy share in total energy production, but he demands that the Finnish decision makers have to make sure that the biomass pricing does not unreasonably escalate at the same time.There has been a lively discussion lately about the relevance of forest biomass to Finnish energy production. While Finnish government and Minister of Economic Affairs Mauri Pekkarinen in particular, want to increase the share of forest biomass in the energy production by subsidizing it, the pulp industry is worried about how it will

The Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs, Mauri Pekkarinen: The governments in active role in increasing the use of bioenergy

The Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs, Mauri Pekkarinen, states that the use of bioenergy has already a strong support from citizens and political decision-makers in the Baltic Sea Region. He claims the Governments should create favorable conditions to increase the use of bioenergy.All of the EU Member States have legally binding targets for the use of renewable energy, but the challenges for bioenergy vary from country to country. – For instance, there are differences in supply potential of biomass. In some countries it is not possible to use biomass in existing power plants and thus

Finnish Wind Atlas service now also in English

The Wind Atlas of Finland service at www.tuuliatlas.fi has been well received by the Finnish public. The data material, published in Finnish at the end of November 2009, and the Wind Atlas map interface are now also available in English and Swedish.After the initial rush in November 2009, the Finnish-language Wind Atlas service has attracted a few thousand users per month, several hundred per day. “The Wind Atlas of Finland has also aroused international interest. After its publication, there has been debate about the possibility of producing a wind atlas for the whole of Europe using the

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