Norppa = Seal The Norppa ecolabel scheme was launched ten years ago. The idea is to give the consumers the option to use energy from suppliers that generate energy from pure and renewable energy. Interest in Norppa ecolabel is increasing rapidly, and now every seventh Finnish household electricity suppliers are certified under the Norppa ecolabel scheme. It will only cost you 10 euro's more annually to use green and pure energy compared to using energy produced from fossil fuels or nuclear power plants. Hydropower and bio energy schemes can be highly competitive. Solar and wind power schemes tend to be more expensive.

There are about 106 wind turbines in Finland They produce about 190GWh This is still only 0.2% of Finland’s power consumption of 80TWh If the power plants would be further developed and made more efficient we could produce even 25% of Finland’s power consumption of 80GWh by wind.

Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. Bioenergy is the energy extracted from the biomass. Biomass is the fuel and bioenergy is the energy contained in the fuel. There are many kinds of bioenergy, such as biogases and biofuels. Anything that has stored sunlight in it in the form of chemical energy can be called biomass.

Extracted from recently living organisms, such as plants or animals and their byproducts. As the energy extracted from the biomass produces just as much CO2 release as the natural dispersion would produce, it is considered environment-friendly. Bioenergy is a renewable source based on the carbon cycle. There are mostly agricultural products that is used as biomass and Finland has recently started to extract energy from the left-overs from Finland’s largest bakery chain. There are plans to build a bioenergy station that can produce energy out of potato peel.

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Sun panel A sun panel catches sunlight and transforms it into electricity; This is most used when you need something more than your ordinary energy source.

Sun collector Collect the sunlight and transform it to heating. Impendent on the temperature outside. The electricity heat up a boiler filled with water, and then you can use the hot water in your house, not only for showering, you can heat your house with it to! If you have the hot water in heaters.

Hydropower -renewable energy from water

Situation In Finland oLandscape is quite flat oTo make up for it we have a great number of hydropower plants. oOver 50% of our hydropower comes from rivers in the north.

Hydro power is the most important source of renewable energy in Finland In the 1950 almost 90% of Finlands electricity was produced through hydropower. As the production of electricity trough other methods have increased its percentage of the total production has decreased, in 2001 it was 18%.

Why hydropower? oCheap source of energy. oPower plants can be easily started in a couple of minutes when needed. oNo pollution

Electricity Production in the Nordic Countries 2005 Hydro Power Wind Power and Geothermic Nuclear Power Thermal Power