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Suomenoja power station

Coal power plant in Uusimaa, Finland. Approximate location 60.1483, 24.7183.

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Suomenoja power station is a 170 MW coal power station in Uusimaa, Finland. It is operated by Fortum Oyj. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 212,742 homes (estimated). It ranks #14 of 185 Finland power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1981, it is around 45 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 0.2% of Finland's electricity; the national grid averages 57 gCO₂/kWh (96.3% low-carbon) (2025).

170MW installed capacity
212,742homes powered (est.)
1981commissioned (~45 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1075850.

~744,600 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

173,566passenger cars driven for a year
97,105homes' yearly energy use
12,410,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Finland

Meri-Pori: 565 MW565Meri-PoriVaskiluoto 2: 230 MW230Vaskiluoto…Hanasaari B: 212 MW212Hanasaari BSuomenoja power station: 170 MW170Suomenoja …Salmisaari B: 163 MW163Salmisaari…

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

Owner

Operated by Fortum Oyj.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 60.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.1°Cannual mean temp
4,670heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
11 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -6 °CFM: -2 °CMA: 3 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 11 °CSO: 6 °CON: 1 °CND: -3 °CD17 °C

Heating degree-days here run 90% 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: 92/100 — 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 #4 largest coal power plant of 5 in Finland by capacity.

Finland has 5 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,340 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 60.1483, 24.7183 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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