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Wind Power Investments Nearly Impossible in Finland, Fortum Says: It is nearly impossible to carry out wind pow...

“When you’ve invested a lot of money and time to prepare three or four wind farms, but not been able to build a single turbine due to environmental regulation, you stop pushing for new projects,” Peter Tuominen, public affairs manager for the company’s nuclear operations, said today at an interview in Helsinki. Burdensome regulation may lead to Finland missing its wind- power target of 6 terawatt-hours by 2020 from 220 megawatts in June. The European Union requires member states to increase the proportion of renewable energy production in gross final energy consumption to an average 20 percent by 2020. The country obtained 0.5 percent of its electricity use from wind last year, the least in Europe except for three countries with a zero share, according to the European Wind Energy Association. Finland may fall short of its wind power target since the only viable projects ar...

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