Wind power in Finland describes wind power in Finland as part of energy in Finland and renewable energy in Finland. In December 2014 wind power capacity in Finland was 627 MW with 260 turbines and the wind energy share of total electricity consumption was 1.3%.
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Wind power is the most popular energy resource among Finnish public: 90% of Finns would want further investments in wind energy in September 2007. In April 2005 the value was 88%. In the Pori area of Finland 97% of people supported wind power according to Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy in 2000.
Finland has a Feed-in Tariff scheme for wind turbines larger than 500 kW.
Kimmo Tiilikainen (1966) (Centre Party) was the environmental minister of Finland during 1.10.2007-31.3.2008, while the permanent minister (Paula Lehtomäki, Centre Party) was on a leave. In his preliminary minister comments in September 2006 Kimmo Tiilikainen recommended Feed-in-Tariff for wind power within one year with the objective of 3000 MW wind power in 2020. Finland consumed 90 000 GWh of electricity in (2006). For reference Germany had installed base of 39,165 MW of wind power at the end of 2014.
In practice
Wind power owner was delighted of the first winter storm on November 30, 2012 with record electricity. However, in Finland extra small wind power is not bought by Fingrid. Several thousand people were out of electricity based on storm. In 2016, St1 opened the 59,5 MW TuuliWatti at a cost of €140 million. Wind power is partially responsible for keeping electricity prices from rising.
Installed capacity growth
Finland has approved a 40 MW offshore wind farm near Pori for 2016, at a cost of 120 million euro.