From the reader. Clean, domestic and affordable electricity is one of the decisive factors behind the investment news of recent weeks. We have read about data centers and hydrogen projects from all over Finland.
One clearly unifying factor can be found in the background of new jobs creating – they use a lot of pure electricity. The supply of electricity and the investments it allows are also critical to small and medium -sized companies in industrial value chains.
In the ongoing energy breakthrough, the role of electricity is emphasized as we move from fossil fuels to electricity in industry, heating and traffic. Finland’s strength is the ability to increase pure electricity production competitively as demand increases, and thus also attract new clean industry investments. The biggest potential for rapid increase in electricity production is in the wind of the wind.
A fixed distance requirement unnecessary
However, in the new Regional Use Act, unnecessary and harmful barriers are considered for wind power to allow for economic growth and emission reductions.
The current procedures for wind power construction ensure that the projects are located in a sustainable manner for nature and society. The impact of the projects will be extensively investigated in planning and environmental impact assessment.
The distance between settlement and wind power is regulated by a Government decree on the external noise level of wind turbines and, with the instructions of the Ministry of the Environment, noise modeling, which together set one of Europe’s strictest distance requirements for wind power.
A fixed distance requirement would ruin an impact -based permit system and reduce local municipal decision -making power in planning.
Particularly noteworthy is the effects of the distance requirement on increasing power generation. As part of the preparation of the law, the Ministry of the Environment has ordered a Finnish consulting company From FCG The effects of the fixed distance requirement on additional wind power construction and to cover increasing electricity demand.
According to the report, the need for electricity required by the clean industry will not be compromised if the distance is between 800 and 1,000 meters, which allows the current regulation based on impact assessment. Instead, for example, a fixed limit of 1500 meters would endanger these goals.
The order would steer in the wrong direction
At its worst, the distance threshold would make the construction of wind power in southern and eastern Finland, and would guide construction further in the north, closer to nature and wilderness.
A fixed distance requirement would ruin an impact -based permit system and reduce local municipal decision -making power in planning.
Petteri Orpo (IOC) The government is aiming for new growth in Finland. The largest known growth investments are based on a reliable view of the availability of pure electricity. Pure electricity is a Finnish trump card and strength in attracting investment.
The location of wind power must continue to be the case -by -case impact assessment and local decision -making. The artificial, non -action -based distance rules would undermine confidence in the predictable investment environment.
Anni Mikkonen
Managing Director, Finnish Renewables Association
Jukka Leskelä
CEO, Energy Industry Association
Ulla Heinonen
Leader, Green Growth, Confederation of Finnish Industries
Teppo Säkkinen
Leading expert, business and climate policy, Central Chamber of Commerce
Roope Ohlsbom
Economist, Finnish Entrepreneurs