Wind power construction creates thousands of jobs
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 09:30
Finland has undertaken to build more wind power plants by 2020, worth a total capacity of 2,500 MW, in addition to its other projects involving the production of renewable energy. This represents a considerable increase in the country’s production of wind power energy when compared to the 145 wind power plants that were in operation in August 2012, whose combined output was just 234 MW.
The construction of wind power farms was assumed to grow intensely after the feed-in tariff for...
Vacon receives Frost & Sullivan's European AC drives Product Line Strategy award
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 14:45
Frost & Sullivan, one of the world's most respected growth consultancy companies, has awarded Vacon with the European Low Voltage (LV) Alternating Current (AC) Electric Drives Product Line Strategy Award for 2012.
The award recognizes Vacon's achievements in effectively optimizing strategies, processes and performance while the Frost & Sullivan report on the award commends Vacon’s expertise to produce and market drives with diverse end-user applications and develop product...
VTT won 2012 European innovation prize for breakthrough in bio-oil production
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 12:15
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland received an innovation award from the European Association for Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) for a new technology that enables the cogeneration of heating energy and bio-oil in the same power plant cost-effectively and sustainably.
VTT developed the technique with Fortum, Metso and UPM, and their solution was to connect a state-of-the-art pyrolysis reactor to a conventional fluidised bed boiler for the co-generation of electri...
iLOQ grows several hundred percent
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 09:15
iLOQ company was listed among Deloitte’s Technology Rising Stars. Next year’s goal is the Fast 50-list.
"I am proud of our team and products and what we have accomplished. In only a few years, we have acquired a market share of some 10 per cent in Finland and launched sales in other Nordic countries and Central Europe", says Mika Pukari, Managing Director of iLOQ.
At the moment, iLOQ has 32 employees. Last year the company reported net sales of a little over EUR 4.4 milli...
Kaukomarkkinat takes Oilon cleantech products to eastern growth markets
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 09:00
Kaukomarkkinat Oy and the Finnish company Oilon Oy have concluded a co-operation agreement concerning the growth markets of the East. According to the contract, Kaukomarkkinat will represent Oilon’s Scancool industrial heat pumps and ground source heat pumps for households in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Kazakhstan. Furthermore, Kaukomarkkinat will represent Oilon’s industrial and power plant burners in Kazakhstan.
"Kaukomarkkinat knows how business is done in the Eastern growt...
A mini power plant by Ekogen was launched in Taipalsaari
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 14:00
A mini heat and power plant by Ekogen Oy, a company based in Lappeenranta, was launched in Taipalsaari. The plant is operated with wood and it produces electricity and heat for local networks.
The production capacity of the plant is sufficient to cover the average energy consumption of approximately 50-100 dwellings. Typical end users of the plant are small industries such as sawmills and green houses, residential management companies and villages.
The plant represents the cu...
GreenStream is the Broker of the Year 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 16:45
GreenStream Network was voted as the Best Broker 2012 – Renewable energy certificates – Europe amongst an increasing number of competitors.
The Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance magazines' readers have elected GreenStream as the broker of the year now for the 9th time in a row and the company wants to thank all its customers for confidence and very fruitful cooperation during the past years. GreenStream has been active in the green certificates markets since 2001. The com...
Cleantech Finland member companies GreenStream and TM System Finland to cooperate in China
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 16:30
GreenStream Network plc, a leading Nordic company focused on providing carbon asset management, comprehensive services in the climate and renewable energy markets and delivering energy efficiency projects in China, and TM System Finland Oy, the Finnish industrial energy efficiency company and the parent company of the TM Systems group, are pleased to announce a strategic partnership designed to enhance energy efficiency opportunities in China.
The 12th Five-Year Plan of China has se...
Wärtsilä to supply major power plant to Mozambique
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 15:45
Biggest gas fuelled plant ever to be installed in the countryWärtsilä, a leading global supplier of flexible and efficient power plant solutions, has signed a contract to engineer, supply and install a major gas fuelled power plant to Mozambique. This will be the biggest gas power plant ever installed in Mozambique and second largest power plant running exclusively on gas engines to be installed on the African continent. In addition to the power plant itself, the turnkey contract includ...
Promising results from first grid-connected WaveRoller units
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 15:30
Cumulative electricity produced by WaveRoller units for the local power grid in Peniche, Portugal, exceeded predictions – even in low sea states. The research team are now looking forward to results from rougher sea states as waves become more turbulent with the approach of winter.
Performance data from the first month of operation by the WaveRoller 3x100kW Power plant in Portugal lived up to forecasts based on previous simulations and tests. In spite of unseasonably calm seas wit...
