Ilmatar to construct its initial solar park in Finland

• 5MWp PV plant is anticipated to begin supplying energy in 2023

Ilmatar Energy Oy is to create its very first solar park when an industrial-scale PV power plant is constructed in Joroinen, Finland.

Jorois will give Finnish renewable energy from early 2023 onwards.

The financial investment choice will certainly accelerate Ilmatar's journey towards the leading renewable energy company in the Nordic countries, it claimed.

Joroinen Park has a capacity of 5MWp.

Ilmatar is in charge of funding the Joroinen project together with Business Finland, whose financial investment assistance totals up to 20% of the total money.

Ilmatar president Juha Sarsama said: "Solar energy is a vital new component in Ilmatar's strategy, as it brings flexibility to our power production.

" Our goal is to be the market leader in this form of production too.

" I am additionally happy with the natural method which our organisation and companions in decision-making as well as landowners have actually gotten the new form of energy manufacturing as their own."

Ilmatar has numerous parks in Finland and Sweden in the size range of 50-250 MWp.

Some of the projects will be built in connection with wind farms.

Ilmatar growth director Antti Keskinen claimed: "Our solar energy team has actually worked and also will certainly work hard in both Finland and Sweden, where there is a significant potential for solar power.

" The clear advantage of solar energy is its light-weight structure as well as quick scalability, in addition to numerous synergies with our wind power production."

" For many years, we have accumulated a big amount of experience in the effective application of large projects entailing massive framework entities with wind power.

" Therefore, as a Finnish firm, we have great regional knowledge around the country and the ability to bring industrial-scale solar energy to the market along with local interest groups.

" We also rely on industrial-scale energy production in terms of solar power, and as we have currently discovered in wind power building and construction, that it additionally brings us responsibilities in regards to the setting as well as nature.

" Our slogan is to make solar power on environmental terms.

" This guides every little thing we carry out in the application of solar parks initially of the layout and also continues during lifecycle upkeep."

Keskinen added that Ilmatar wished to revitalise areas that have actually left or are leaving other business activities by harnessing the locations for renewable energy production.

These may consist of, for example, a deserted peat manufacturing area, an inadequately generating area or various other marsh that would certainly or else have no land-use worth.