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Origin of heat

Origin of heat and energy sources

The origin of the heat we sell varies somewhat from year to year. The origin is influenced, for example, by how well our own power plants have produced energy, the price of fuels, and general energy demand.

Our goal is to achieve full carbon neutrality by 2030 in all or part of the energy production we own. Check out our carbon neutrality path.

Origin 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Toppila 63% 69% 65.3% 63.2% 50.4% 26.8% 35.1%
Biopower plant         16.2% 48.6% 44.1%
Ecopower plant 21% 20% 20.2% 20.9% 22.3% 17.6% 17.9%
Heating centres 1% 0.3% 1.2% 0.8% 0.4% 1.1% 0.7%
Purchase 14% 11% 13.2% 15.0% 10.6% 5.9% 2.2%
Total GWh 1,927 2,153 2,148 2,259 2,133 2,488 2,318

In 2021, the energy sources of district heat and steam sold to our customers were divided as follows: 

Energy sources Own production Including purchased heat
Peat 31.5% 29.8%
Oils 1.6% 1.5%
Coal 0.0% 0.0%
Wood 57.0% 59.4%
Other biofuels 0.0% 0.0%
Other (pine tar oil) 0.0% 0.0%
Waste fuels 9.9% 9.2%

Specific annual CO2 emissions of district heating delivered to the customer:

  2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Energy method 218.6 g/kWh 217.8 g/kWh 190.2 g/kWh 144.0 g/kWh 111.1 g CO₂/kWh
Energy method         112.9 g CO₂(eq)/kWh
Benefit distribution method         78.7 g CO₂/kWh
Benefit distribution method         80.0 g CO₂(eq)/kWh