Electricity Supply and Demand
Electricity Demand
Total electricity consumption in 2009 (provisional data)- 80.8 TWh
- 15.1 MWh/capita
- 87.2 TWh
- 16.4 MWh/capita
Consumption of electricity totalled 81 terawatt hours (TWh), i.e. 7.4 per cent less than in the year before. The fall in industrial output was reflected in industrial consumption of electricity which decreased exceptionally much, by 17 per cent. Electricity use of services was on level with the previous year but electricity use of households increased by 6% partly due to cold weather.
Electricity Supply
Worsened water situation from the previous year of record reduced the production of hydro power by 26 per cent. Decreased production of water power raised the use of hard coal in separate production of electricity. The lower prices of emission rights compared with the previous year also improved the competitiveness of hard coal as a fuel in heat and power production when compared with fuels with lower emission rates. Two per cent more electricity was produced with nuclear power than the year before and at the same time a record volume thus far was attained in annual production. Wind power production increased by six per cent from the year before, but was still only 0.4 per cent of electricity produced.Net imports of electricity declined by five per cent. Fifteen per cent of the electricity consumed in Finland was covered with imported electricity. In the Nordic electricity markets Finland was a net seller but the volume of electricity imported from Russia hit all-time record high.
