Vantaa Energy’s seasonal heat storage facility plays a key role as the company phases out the use of fossil fuels by 2026 and progresses towards carbon negativity by 2030. The report on the environmental impact assessment of the seasonal heat storage project is now ready, and the results in the report will be presented in […]
Vantaa Energy and Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) continue their close collaboration on further development of solutions for reducing the environmental impacts of energy production with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). Introduced as a result of the pilot project launched in 2020, the solutions are based on the utilisation of process data, analytics and AI. […]
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has decided to grant investment aid worth EUR 19,033,000 to Vantaa Energy’s Seasonal Heat Storage project. In its criteria for granting the aid, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment states that balancing of seasonal energy variation is the novelty value of the Seasonal Heat Storage project: surplus […]
The world’s largest seasonal heat storage facility is being designed for Kuusikonmäki in Vantaa to store heat from renewable energy sources. The seasonal heat storage facility is expected to be completed in 2026. It would make it possible for Vantaa Energy to phase out fossil fuels in energy production when thermal energy produced from […]
Vantaa Energy is a circular economy energy company. This means combining the circular economy business with the energy business. The synergy of material flows and heat enables eco-efficient energy production with existing raw materials that are unsuitable for recycling. This also creates new business activities for both Vantaa Energy and several of its partners. By […]
Vantaa Energy and the technology company Wärtsilä signed a co-operation agreement this year on the pre-engineering of a significant Power-to-Gas (P2G) plant that produces synthetic methane. Due to be commissioned in 2025, upon completion, the P2G i.e. the electric fuel plant will be the largest in Finland and also the first to produce carbon-neutral, synthetic […]
Vantaa Energy’s goal-oriented work to reduce carbon dioxide emissions continues with the launch of the company’s project entity, Carbonnegative 2030. As a result of the plan consisting of four main projects, Vantaa Energy with its operations will sequester more carbon dioxide than it releases into the atmosphere, taking it towards carbon negativity in 2030. In […]
The National Energy Saving Week is held on 11‒17 October. During this year’s campaign week, especially cities are encouraged to take energy-saving measures that help to achieve climate targets. The goal of Vantaa Energy is to phase out the use of fossil fuels in energy production by 2026 and to be carbon-neutral in 2030. In […]
Vantaa Energy is a forerunner in the energy sector. It offers its customers a modern energy system and introduces new technologies with an open mind. However, what makes it possible to bring together our innovative forms of producing climate-friendly energy and to utilise them on a daily basis is the heating network. It brings […]
Vantaa Energy’s Energy Lane is a new era of buying energy and heating: a service package that brings various energy services to your home in a single, stably priced and constantly developing way. We have now launched three new packages that offer tools especially for housing companies and businesses to improve energy efficiency in properties […]
Vantaa Energy, YIT and AFRY are planning the construction of the world’s largest seasonal heat storage using the alliance model. At one million cubic metres in size, the underground seasonal heat storage will have a total capacity that corresponds to the annual heating demand of a medium-sized Finnish city. The seasonal storage will play an […]
Vantaa Energy will phase out fossil fuels in energy production by year 2026. For customers, this means increasingly more environmentally friendly energy via the heating network. Phasing out fossil fuels is a climate deed and a significant step towards carbon neutrality: Vantaa Energy’s goal is to be carbon neutral in 2030. With Vantaa Energy’s Fossil-free […]
Vantaa Energy has chosen YIT and the design and consulting company AFRY Finland Oy as its partners to develop and build a seasonal heat storage in Vantaa using the alliance model. The value of the contract is approximately EUR 75 million, of which the share of the development stage is approximately EUR 1.6 million. The […]
Vantaa Energy, Sweco and Fira have signed a project alliance agreement on the implementation of a waste treatment plant for non-recyclable waste. The agreement concerns the development stage of the alliance. The aim is to proceed to the implementation stage at the beginning of 2022. Vantaa Energy has chosen Sweco and Fira as its alliance […]
Rendering of P2G plant of Vantaa Energy, producing synthetic methane for the needs of district heating and transportation in connection with the utility’s waste-to-energy plant © Wärtsilä Corporation The technology group Wärtsilä and Finnish utility, Vantaa Energy Ltd, have signed a co-operation agreement for pre-engineering and development of a Power-to-Gas (P2G) plant for Vantaa Energy. The plant […]
Vantaa Energy is planning to implement the world’s largest cavern thermal energy storage in the city of Vantaa. The amount of heat contained in the facility, 90 GWh, would meet the heating need of a medium-sized Finnish town and it also corresponds to about five per cent of the annual heat consumption of Vantaa. Among […]
Electrofuels are fuels that have been produced by decomposing water into hydrogen and oxygen with the aid of electricity. The process is called electrolysis. Hydrogen can be used as such, but it can also be converted to a form that is easier to store and more readily suitable for current areas of use, i.e. synthetic […]
Vantaa Energy is taking another giant leap in its climate targets and has now set a goal of being carbon neutral in 2030. The innovative energy production solutions of the Fossil-Free 2026 project for transforming the energy sector help to achieve this goal. Vantaa Energy’s journey towards climate-neutral energy production started at the beginning of […]
Vantaa Energy is giving up fossil fuels in its energy production in the Vantaa region already in 2026. Constant development work on energy production has paid off, and the company has cut its emissions significantly in just a few years; after 2010, its carbon emissions have decreased by 55 %. The journey toward cleaner energy […]
Vantaa Energy’s seasonal thermal storage project has proceeded to the second round of the EU Innovation Fund’s first call for projects. Getting to the second round was extremely competitive—only the most promising 70 projects out of 311 applicants made the cut. Through the fund, the EU supports innovative technologies that help mitigate climate change — […]
Year 2020 was successful for the Vantaa Energy Group both financially and operationally. As a result of several projects launched during the year, Vantaa Energy progressed step by step towards fossil-free energy production in 2026. As a cherry on the cake, our heat customers gave us an all-time best score in the customer satisfaction survey […]
Vantaa Energy’s Fossil-Free 2026 project is on schedule and its key subprojects are well underway. Innovative solutions, such as an AI-enhanced bio power plant, geothermal heat and the world’s largest seasonal heat storage system will speed up the transition to a fossil-free future in Vantaa. Climate change will not wait. That is why Vantaa Energy […]
The largest seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) in the world Vantaa Energy is planning to quarry a 50–60-metre deep network of rock caves for a seasonal storage facility for heat. The facility will store natural water, and energy can be stored in its temperature change with district heating circulation. The facility to be built underground […]
Vantaa Energy’s project to extend its waste-to-energy (WTE) plant is proceeding in accordance with the original plan. The next step is to install the main equipment in March 2021. The plant extension is scheduled to be in use in the autumn of 2022. In the future, waste from trade and industries in addition to mixed […]
The European Union intends to support the development of innovative heat storage solutions to mitigate climate change. This commitment is warmly welcome, as such technologies are vital for speeding up the phase-out of fossil fuels. Vantaa Energy is currently building the world’s largest seasonal thermal energy storage system, which can, for example, store solar heat […]
Our district heating customers gave us an excellent score in the customer satisfaction survey conducted by Innolink. The survey was completed at the end of 2020. The objective of the survey was to chart the level of satisfaction among our district heating customers with regard to the operation and services of the company and to […]
Works of the extension of Vantaa Energy’s waste-to-energy plant are progressing on schedule, currently proceeding from earthworks to constructing the buildings of the new plant. In future, waste from trade and industry in addition to mixed waste from households will be utilised in energy production in Vantaa. The extension project of the waste-to-energy plant is […]
Vantaa Energy, the IT service company CGI, and Sumitomo SHI FW are developing a completely new kind of solution in Finland for reducing the environmental impacts of energy production. It was possible to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the Martinlaakso power plant by more than 3,000 tonnes per year already in the first phase […]
Vantaa Energy is taking another leap in its climate targets by phasing out fossil fuels by 2026. The rapid schedule is enabled by the utilisation of excess energy produced in waste processing, seasonal storage of heat, and the use of geothermal ground-source heat and solar energy. Last autumn, Vantaa Energy took the decision to end […]
The use of peat in the Martinlaakso biopower plant will become history next year when a system developed for the management of combustion and corrosion will be introduced at the plant. Commissioned in 2019, peat at the biopower plant has accounted for about 10 per cent of the total fuel volume in order to slow […]