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Prysmian’s cable competence center in Pikkala is the company flagship also in the energy transition

Prysmian Group's Cable Competence Centre in Pikkala, Finland develops and manufactures the world's leading high-voltage submarine and onshore cables used in wind farms all over the world. The investment of more than 240 hundred million euros in increasing production capacity will further strengthen the position of the Pikkala plant among…

Adven to begin construction of a new wood chip boiler house in Vändra, Estonia  

Adven will commence construction of a new wood chip boiler house in Vändra, Estonia in July. The boiler house, with a capacity of 0.85 megawatts, is planned to supply most of Vändra with heat by the spring of 2025. Upon completion, Adven will utilize biomass as the primary fuel source in…

Establishing a central operations center for operational monitoring in Sweden

Connected and manned around the clock to ensure safe and reliable energy delivery to customers – that is the goal of Adven's new operations center. Through constant operational monitoring and remote control, the company hopes to be able to prevent disruptions and, in the long term, optimize production for almost…

Exploring the pros and cons of electric boilers

In Finland, the rise in biofuel prices coupled with simultaneous high demand has catalyzed a shift towards electric boilers for process steam production. This transition not only responds to economic pressures but also aligns with an increasing commitment to environmental sustainability. Electricity, particularly when sourced from expanding wind energy investments,…

Non-fossil energy solution to Mirka’s factory in Oravais

The world's leading manufacturer of abrasive products, Mirka, and the energy company Adven implement a completely non-fossil energy solution, where geoenergy field, solar power and electric boiler combine their forces. The heat production of Mirka's factory in Oravais, Finland, will be completely non-fossil. After the project is completed, now estimated…

Implementing RED directives – Adven insights from Estonia

This year, heat producers in Estonia had to, for the first time, demonstrate compliance with the Renewable Energy Directive. The audit results published for the year 2023 show that Adven's renewable fuel for energy solutions fully complies with the established sustainability criteria.  From the beginning of 2023, the Renewable Energy…

Ilmalanrinne will soon use renewable geoenergy

A parking garage that has been in continuous use, drilling geowells to a depth of up to 600 meters, building an energy center in a former storage space - these are just a few of the phases that describe the geoenergy project that began last summer in Ilmala, Helsinki, Finland.…

Geoenergy and coffee bring old partners new ideas

Time was tight and there wasn’t really enough space. Not enough to drill 115 geoenergy wells for a factory which production was running as usual and that was also under construction, with workers and traffic all over the place. “Experience and cooperation make obstacles disappear. If not – we have…