Main grid
Transmission reliability rate of the main grid: 99.99995%
In 2020, the transmission reliability rate on the main grid reached a record-setting.
1.4.2021
In 2020, the transmission reliability rate on the main grid reached a record-setting.
Main grid service fees will remain unchanged in 2021.
The design of the main grid includes making preparations for a climate-neutral society in which the importance of electricity is constantly increasing. Over the coming decades, the emissions produced by generating electricity must be lowered, and electricity consumers must be offered the best opportunities to obtain clean electricity.
Fingrid is currently building transmission lines on the main grid on dozens of sites. Construction work on the main grid runs to EUR 100 million annually. The company is having a record year in terms of the number of substation modernisations and refurbishments.
The Forest Line, which runs from Muhos near Oulu to Petäjävesi in Central Finland, has been under construction since the autumn of 2019. The line will be completed in 2022, and it will be particularly significant in ensuring that Finland remains a single pricing area.
Fingrid is a transmission system operator with a monopoly and a proven brand. But why does a monopoly need a brand, asks Fingrid’s President & CEO Jukka Ruusunen,
Finland has set itself a truly ambitious climate target: Finland will be climate neutral in 2035, and carbon-negative soon after! A key means of reducing emissions is to eliminate the emissions of industry, heating and transport by electrifying them, writes Jukka Ruusunen, Fingrid’s President & CEO.
This summer, Fingrid will photograph transmission lines from the air. The company intends to photograph approximately 12,000 km of transmission lines – an unprecedented amount. The remainder of the transmission lines (just over 2,000 km) have already been photographed.
Fingrid constantly strives to reduce the risk of large-scale power cuts and improve its ability to restore power as quickly as possible, writes Senior Vice President Reima Päivinen.
Frost accumulates on earth wires and forces them down onto the phase conductors, creating a line fault that causes the power to be cut from the line. To prevent this problem, Fingrid dislodges the frost using a new helicopter technique. Nowadays, frost builds up in new places and in vastly different amounts every year.
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00620 Helsinki
Tel. 030 395 5267
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