Thermal power

Power plant specialist Jari Grönvall has been appointed as the Managing Director of PVO-Lämpövoima Oy as of 1 June 2021. The present Managing Director Petri Hurri will retire in August 2021.

The Pohjolan Voima energy company is further expanding the use of bio-based fuels. This spring, sunflower seed shell pellets and bio-based lignin separated from wood will be tested at the Rauman Biovoima power plant. Pohjolan Voimaâ…

The operational business of Laanilan Voima Oy, a subsidiary of Pohjolan Voima, has shut down at the end of March. The operational business of Laanilan Voima terminated as a result the restructuring of the energy functions that are b…

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…

Jari Mattila has been appointed as Maintenance Engineer of Laanilan Voima Oy as of 14 September 2020. The duties of Maintenance Engineer include operation planning of the power plant and the related plants as well as managing, devel…

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…

Ms. Marja Tiitto has been appointed as Energy economy specialist of Kaukaan Voima Oy as of 27 January 2020.  Ms. Tiitto is based in Lappeenranta and reports to Power Plant Manager Juha Vuolteenaho. Marja Tiitto transferred to Kauka…