Finland closes last coal-fired power plant

Helsinki: Finnish energy company Helen said on Tuesday that it had shut down the country’s last active coal -powered power plant, starting the “The End of the Era of Coal” for the Nordic country.
Salmisari power plant The Central Helsinki produced heat and electricity for the country’s capital, which emit carbon dioxide (CO2) that contributes to malignant climate change.
As a result of the closure, Helen’s annual CO2 emissions will decrease by an estimated 50 percent compared to the 2024 level and Helsinki’s total emissions will fall by 30 percent, the energy company said in a statement.
It also meant the closure of the power plant to both the “end of the era of coal” and the cleaner and more self -sufficient energy production, that the total emissions of Finland would fall by about two percent compared to the previous year.
The company’s CEO Oli Sirka said, “Giving coal is a solid step towards Helen’s clean, self -sufficient and inexpensive energy production.”
In 2022, 64 percent of the company’s district heating production was still generated from burning coal – which was given to Helsinki by ships.
Now that smoke has stopped billing from the chimney of the plant, the company’s emission in 2025 was 20 percent of its total emissions in 1990.
However, a coal reserve will be placed in storage to use “if necessary”.
Meanwhile, some companies in the Nordic country still use small amounts of coal for energy production.
Finland has decided that the use of coal in energy production will be banned by May 1, 2029.