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Loviisa kt

Other power plant in Uusimaa, Finland. Approximate location 60.3722, 26.3472.

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Loviisa kt is a 40 MW other power plant in Uusimaa, Finland. It is operated by Fingrid Oyj. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 30,034 homes (estimated). It ranks #62 of 185 Finland power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 57 gCO₂/kWh (96.3% low-carbon) (2025).

40MW installed capacity
30,034homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002444.

Capacity vs largest other plants in Finland

Mertaniemi 1 ja 2: 102 MW102Mertaniemi…Olkiluoto kt: 100 MW100Olkiluoto …Loviisa kt: 40 MW40Loviisa ktNaantali kt: 40 MW40Naantali kt

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Fingrid Oyj. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 60.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

4.6°Cannual mean temp
4,868heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
10 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -7 °CFM: -3 °CMA: 3 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 15 °CAS: 10 °CSO: 5 °CON: 0 °CND: -4 °CD17 °C

Heating degree-days here run 98% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 93/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #3 largest other power plant of 4 in Finland by capacity.

Finland has 4 other power plants in this dataset, together about 282 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 60.3722, 26.3472 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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