The hydrogen economy represents a great opportunity for Finland, driven by clean electricity production, the rapid growth of wind power, and a reliable main grid. The green hydrogen market will also require a new hydrogen transmission grid.
The dramatic growth in wind power and the regional concentration on the west coast poses a challenge to the stability of power plants and the power system as a whole.
The increase in wind power production is putting the power
system to the test. In the future, the grid will need solutions to ensure
stability and more transmission line connections.
Major commerce enterprises focus on energy efficiency, wind and solar power. Significant electricity savings have been made in the unusual winter of 2022–2023.
Jukka Metsälä has no difficulty motivating himself in his new job. The goal is a cleaner future.
Society is going through a vast electrification process that is shaping life as we know it. For TSOs, this poses a lot of challenges: massive changes in the industry are
necessary in order to enable full electrification.
Connecting renewable forms of energy to the grid involves challenges that Fingrid tackles with R&D projects. New solutions are used to ensure the security of the energy supply and cost-effectiveness during the global energy revolution.
EPV Energy is one of the trailblazers in industrial-scale wind power generation in Finland: in 2019, approximately 17.4 per cent of EPV’s energy was generated from wind power. EPV Windpower Ltd has wind farms in Teuva, Vaasa, Ilmajoki and Kristinestad.
Anni Mikkonen, CEO of the Finnish Wind Power Association, says that the wind power sector still has plenty to learn about how to operate in the balancing power market.
Electricity generation and consumption are two sides of the same coin. People need electricity, particularly on cold winter days – but those are the days when electricity is most difficult to guarantee and supply. Coal is coming to the end of the road, so we need to look for alternatives. The answer increasingly lies in the expanding Nordic and European electricity markets.
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Fingrid is Finland’s transmission system operator. We secure reliable electricity cost effectively for our customers and society, and shape the clean, market-oriented power system of the future.
