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On 21 December, the Finnish capital announced that its energy company Helen is ready to shut down its Salmisaari coal-fired power plant ahead of schedule. More specifically, it will phase out coal more than 5 years earlier than initially planned, with the plant’s doors officially closing on 1 April 2024.
To further accelerate its transition to carbon-neutral energy production, Helen also revealed that it will close another coal-fired plant ahead of plans. Expanding on this, the company recently shared that the combined heat and energy plant Hanasaari would shut a year earlier than expected, on 1 April 2023.
The company expects that the closure of the Salmisaari plant will reduce carbon emission by a whopping 2.4 million tonnes. By shutting down both the Salmisaari and Hanasaari plants, the company believes it will reduce emissions by a total of about 5%.
For the past several years, the energy company has worked on finding new alternatives to coal. In other words, it has been preparing for the transition to decentralised heat production and energy systems for a long time. Thus, it already has plans for future replacement power sources.
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