Northern Finland Leads in Wind Energy Usage

by Joseph R. Fonseca
Friday, August 21, 2015

 

Wind power in the northern regions of Finland is developing most rapidly than other parts of the c Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.

According to data collected on a statistical portal Patchwork Barents, regions of Ostrobothnia and Lapland are the undisputed leaders in the production of electricity from wind power. Only the neighboring province of Vasterbotten in Sweden boasts higher production volumes, reports barentsobserver.com

In another northern Swedish province - Norrbotten - is planned to place the largest wind power project to build a wind farm Markbyugden.

In the northern province of Norway Nordland, Troms and Finnmark in 2014 did not show any significant changes in the volume of production of electricity from wind energy. Finnmark is the largest manufacturer in the north of Norway, with production capacity of 200 GW / h.

On the territory of the Russian part of the Barents region, wind energy is not yet developed, although the Murmansk region begins to build small wind turbines on the southern coast of the White Sea.

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