Energy Market Manager for Energy Industry Pekka Salomaa says that the electricity user has three priorities to influence their electricity.
“Time, scheduling, timing.”
According to Salomaa, even though an individual consumer’s contribution to electricity is low, it is not when many people do the same.
“Households account for less than a quarter of electricity in Finland. Households play a big role in millions of them. ”
Head of Fingrid’s Electricity Market Unit Maarit Uusitalo says that the variation in electricity prices also encourages consumers, both individuals and industry to consider their use of electricity.
“High electricity prices have seen the behavior of a normal consumer. Even an industrial consumer thinks that the price is ready to use electricity. ”
Aalto University in the Occupational Life Professor Iivoivo Vehviläinen It is therefore problematic if the new nuclear power plant proposed by the departing Minister of the Environment was funded by collecting transfer fees from consumers.
“It slows down these investments. If every consumer believes that the price of electricity can now rise soon, it will reduce the transition from fossil options. ”
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Market jury
The market jury will discuss this week about what kind of electricity production in Finland will be needed in the future. Can electricity still have a shortage of electricity and what about the price of electricity?
Among other things, these topics are coming to discuss the energy market leader of the energy industry Pekka SalomaaAalto University in Workplace Professor Iivo Vehviläinen and the head of the electricity market unit of the transmission system company Fingrid Maarit Uusitalo.
The market jury is hosted by Kauppalehti’s editor Soili Semkina.
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