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		<title>WPD to build 30MW wind farm in Finland</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[German wind power company WPD said in a statement Friday it would build erect wind turbines in Finland in cooperation with Metsähallitus, a Finnish state-owned enterprise. 
WPD did not disclose the value of the investment. 
The wind farm, with a total generating capacity of upwards of 30 megawatts, is to be built in Muonio in Finnish Lapland. Construction is to begin in 2011 at the earliest. 
STT 
Helsinki Times
22 September 2008
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		<title>Wind turbines to propel renewable energy in Finland</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Government has agreed to construct a number of wind power plants over the next decade. Information obtained by YLE indicates that the aim is to generate about 2000 megawatts of wind power by the year 2020. In principle about 1,000 wind turbines would be needed to produce that much power. 
The proposal calls for development of wind parks in key catchment areas such as coastlines and near the sea, to accommodate the large numbers of turbines needed. The proposal is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Grid operator questions expansion of wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The government&#8217;s plan to sharply increase the use of wind power has been questioned by the national electric grid operator Fingrid. 
The company says that heavy investments would be needed before the grid could handle a large injection of wind power. Large subsidies would also be needed. These are part of the government&#8217;s energy package, one of the hot topics on the agenda of Parliament&#8217;s autumn session, which begins on Tuesday. 
Fingrid argues that expanding wind power would be too .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Finland&#39;s PVO and Oulu Energy unveil tight windfarm schedule</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finnish utilities Pohjolan Voima (PVO) and Oulu Energy said Thursday they saw their planned windfarm with a total capacity of up to 800 megawatts online in 2011 at the earliest.
&#8220;But that is rather optimistic a goal. To meet it, permits and equipment deliveries would have to go well,&#8221; said Lauri Luopajärvi of PVO.
In the Finnish context the project, comprising up to 162 turbines, is gargantuan given that the country&#8217;s current wind power generating capacity is all of 130 megawatts.
The turbines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fortum eyes up to 1,300 MW Finnish wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Utility Fortum  said on Tuesday it had reserved two offshore areas in north-western Finland for wind power plants, with total capacity seen at 1,150 to 1,300 MW.
Fortum said the new wind farms could begin to generate electricity in 2014-2016.
&#8220;Our aim is to increase wind power production substantially by 2025&#8230; We are also interested in other offshore wind sites in Finland,&#8221; Arja Koski, an official responsible for Fortum&#8217;s wind power investments, said in a statement. 
(Reporting by Tarmo Virki) 
Reuters
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		<title>Metsähallitus plans to charge owners of wind generators rent for using public land</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Metsähallitus, the state enterprise whose task is to manage most of the protected areas of Finland and to supply wood to the country&#8217;s forest industry, says that it will not give its land and water areas to companies setting up wind generators free of charge. Instead, it is expected to lease its land for use for wind-powered generators.
No details of the rent, or the preconditions, have been defined.
The Finnish government wants to increase sharply the use of wind energy, which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In another threat, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams have sprung up in reindeer herding areas that had been protected, cutting grazing and forcing the Sami off their traditional land.
Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father&#8217;s father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s.
But, because of climate change, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for new locations for wind power; Inland areas included in new survey</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[New locations are being examined for the possible construction of windmills to generate electricity.
      The aim of a report by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy is to find locations in Finland that would be suitable for wind energy in areas that have not previously been surveyed with wind power in mind.
      These locations include inland areas which are near the coast. &#8220;It is fairly certain that new places .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power lines deadly to migratory birds</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of swans are killed each year after colliding into power lines in Finland. So far this year, 100 swans have been found dead. Other birds as well fall victim to the lines located along migratory paths.
Transferring electric cables underground would prevent the deaths, although warning devices on power lines have been somewhat useful. According to bird watchers, birds fly into the same lines every year.
Other large structures, like glass buildings, also create obstacles for birds. Furthermore, wind turbines are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy debate revs up in Finnish government</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A debate inside the Finnish government over the future of the country&#8217;s energy supply gained momentum on Monday with Mauri Pekkarinen, the economic affairs minister, deploying uncharacteristically colourful prose at a meeting in Brussels.
Mr Pekkarinen admitted that the ministry&#8217;s draft energy strategy paper would include a proposal to construct a reservoir in Vuotos, even though Green ministers were certain to reject the idea.
&#8220;I will then let Tarja strike a goal from that pass,&#8221; Mr Pekkarinen said with a laugh, referring .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Finland&#39;s Cronberg calls for 30-fold increase in wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tarja Cronberg (green), the Finnish labour minister, on Saturday called for a 30-fold jump in wind power generating capacity, or an extra 3,000 megawatts by 2020, an increase that would have the country generate a tenth of its electricity from wind.
Responding to earlier comments by Mauri Pekkarinen (centre), the economic affairs minister, Ms Cronberg said Finland did not need another nuclear power station thanks to improvements in energy efficiency.
In another criticism of Mr Pekkarinen&#8217;s comments, Ms Cronberg added the proposed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Katainen: increasing wind farms too expensive</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen considers Centre Party proposals to dramatically increase the number of wind farms as unrealistic.
Katainen, a member of the National Coalition Party, told the newspaper Kaleva that suggestions for a twenty-fold increase in the number of wind farms would be too expensive at current wind energy prices.
He calculated that increasing wind power from current levels of 100 megawatts to 1,000 megawatts would require at least 600 to 700 million euros over the next 13 years.
In Katainen&#8217;s view, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power feed-in tariff would cost Finns EUR 780 mln</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finland&#8217;s trade and industry ministry said Monday that a feed-in tariff for wind power would cost the consumers about 780 million euros through the end of the next decade.
A feed-in tariff could, according to a study commissioned by the ministry, pay for the construction of about 2,000 megawatts of new wind power generating capacity.
Electricity generated by wind power stations is considerably more expensive than the current market price of power.
Under a feed-in tariff scheme, the government fixes an above-market price .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany&#39;s WPD plans up to 600MW wind power park in Finland</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[German renewable energy group WPD&#8217;s said Wednesday it was planning erecting a 500-600-megawatt offshore wind power park off KorsnÃ¤s on Finland&#8217;s Gulf of Bothnia coast.
If built, the generators would quintuple Finland&#8217;s wind power generating capacity.
Esa Holttinen, the chief executive of WPD Finland, said the company would begin an environmental impact assessment on a windfarm comprising up to 120 mills. The cost of building the farm would range between 750 million and 1.2 billion euros.
The windfarm would begin to start generating .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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