Press releases

The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland decided to grant a water management permit for the Raasakka fishway in Iijoki. The decision is significant for the work to revive stocks of migratory fish in the Iijoki r…

A construction project worth more than EUR 1.5 million will be started in November at Haapakoski rapids in the Iijoki river to secure the downstream migration of salmonids.    “The construction of a downstream migration…

Kymin Voima’s biopower plant has made preparations for the winter. Fuel levels are good for the winter, the plant has been serviced thoroughly and the forest residuals crusher, which was damaged in the small fire at the beginning…

The investment amounting to nearly EUR 4,000,000 in the Laanilan Voima power plant will increase the share of wood-based fuels to 50% of all the fuels used in the power plant and make it possible to replace peat with by-products fro…

The tallest smokestack in Finland, located in the power plant area of PVO-Lämpövoima Oy in Kristiinankaupunki, will be demolished on Thursday, 1 October 2020. Closed in 2015, the power plant was Pohjolan Voima’s last solely elec…

Jani Pulli, a longstanding hydropower expert and engineer, will be leading PVO-Vesivoima Oy as of 1 September. Pulli, who started work at the Pohjolan Voima Group as head of operations more than twenty years ago, is a well-known&nbs…

During its ten years of operation, Kaukaan Voima’s bio energy-fuelled combined heat and electricity power plant has cut the district heating emissions in Lappeenranta in half. The power plant produces carbon dioxide-neutral proces…

Pohjolan Voima will commence the demolition of the coal- and oil-fired power plants in Kristiinankaupunki as of the second week of June. Pohjolan Voima aims to progress towards carbon neutrality on market terms.   Pohjan Voima&#821…

Jani Pulli has been appointed as the Managing Director of PVO-Vesivoima Oy. Mr Pulli will take over this position from Pertti Pietinen, who will retire as planned. Mr Pulli will start in his new position on 1 September 2020. He will…

Pohjola Voima started its new strategy period at the beginning of 2020. Our goal is to create decisive power to strengthen competitiveness and contribute to a better tomorrow. The key themes of the strategy are; on market terms towa…