Vaasan Voima produces electricity and district heating in Vaskiluoto, Vaasa. The district heating covers more than 60% of the demand in Vaasa.
The Vaskiluoto power plant produces electricity and district heating through cogeneration, resulting in high efficiency.
Zero deviations and only five observations underline Vaasan Voima’s nearly perfect audit result. Vaasan Voima received praise in the external audit for, among other things, considering energy efficiency in production development.
Vaasan Voima’s significant investment will increase the capacity of the Vaskiluoto thermal energy storage (TES) facility to 17 gigawatt-hours. This will meet the demand for district heating better than ever before, even in the coldest winter months. The extension of the thermal energy storage facility will be completed by late 2025. The Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has granted investment aid of over EUR 5.8 million for the project.
Vaasan Voima’s goal is to use new sources of electricity production to connect the energy needs of different industries and it will do this by developing solutions based on new electricity, for example, in heat generation. Electric boilers are one important component of the clean heat production system of the future.
Currently, Vaasan Voima has three electric boilers.
In 2020, a large thermal energy storage (TES) facility with 100 MW of charge and discharge capacity was put into operation in Vaskiluoto, Vaasa. It will diversify the region’s thermal energy generation both now and in the future.
In the fall of 2023, the expansion of the thermal energy storage was taken into use.
