With the aid of the forest industry, Finland will be able to treble its
use of wood chips. This increase would boost renewables’ share of
Finnish energy production by three percentage points from the present
record level of 28.5 per cent.Production of renewable energy from biomass can be increased further
up to 9 million cubic metres per year. The modern Finnish forest
industry efficiently produces bioenergy from wood in conjunction with
its own manufacturing processes. The sector will continue to invest in
energy efficiency and new technologies by implementing the forest
cluster’s common research strategy.
The main areas of focus in the strategy are
technology that saves energy and other production resources as well as
second-generation biorefineries, which in the future will be able to
produce biofuels and help achieve the 10-per-cent reduction target for
automotive fuels. The use of forest-derived energy can be increased
even further by developing harvesting and transport technology.The
forest industry is already by far the biggest producer of renewable
energy in Finland, accounting for nearly 70 per cent of the national
total. About 40 per cent of the total volume of wood arriving at mills
is channelled through various stages of the process into bioenergy
production.
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