Published: 01:19 am,Saturday 10 June 2023

Transport energy consumption wanes by 4% in 2022
Energy consumption in domestic transport amounted to 164 petajoule (PJ) in 2022, falling by four per cent (PJ) from the previous year, according to Statistics Finland. Liquid fuels in road transport had the biggest effect on the fall. The combined consumption of motor gasoline and diesel fuel in road
Published: 01:56 am,Saturday 10 June 2023

Gasum opens new biogas filling station in Norway
Finnish state-owned energy company Gasum on Friday inaugurated a new biogas filling station in Ålesund municipality, on the western coast of Norway, said the company in a press release. Gasum has collaborated with Posten, the Norwegian postal service, and ÅRIM, a waste management company, to open the new gas
Published: 22:44 pm,Wednesday 7 June 2023

Finnish economy to fall into mild recession: OP
OP Financial Group economists forecast that the gross domestic product (GDP) of counties in Finland will grow at a slower pace this and next year compared with the previous years’ average, said OP in a press release on Wednesday. According to the forecast, unemployment should increase only moderately, and
Published: 19:28 pm,Wednesday 7 June 2023

New car registration rises by 19% in May
A total of 9,435 new passenger cars were registered in May 2023, which was 19 per cent more than one year earlier, according to Statistics Finland. In all, 16,718 new vehicles were registered in May. First registrations increased by 6 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous
Published: 01:02 am,Wednesday 7 June 2023

Trade balance posts €360m surplus in April
The trade balance was in surplus of EUR 360 million in April, according to the preliminary statistics of international trade in goods published by Finnish Customs on Tuesday. In January-April, the aggregated deficit amounted to EUR 535 million. In April 2022, the trade balance was EUR 955 million in deficit
Published: 02:14 am,Friday 2 June 2023

Gasum to build liquefied biogas filling station in Lapland
Finnish state-owned energy company Gasum has begun work on building a new gas filling station in the municipality of Keminmaa in northern Finland, said the company in a press release on Thursday. Construction work will take around six months and the goal is to open the station to users
Published: 23:59 pm,Wednesday 31 May 2023

GDP contracts by 0.4% in Q1 YoY
The volume of Finland's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2023 on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, reported Xinhua, quoting Statistics Finland on Wednesday. However, the country's economy grew by 0.2 percent from the previous quarter. The agency explained that the contraction of investments
Published: 01:42 am,Wednesday 31 May 2023

US firm Plug Power plans 3 hydrogen plants in Finland
US company Plug Power has planned to develop three green hydrogen production plants in Finland, said the company in a press release on Tuesday. The plants will be set up at Kokkola, Kristinestad and Porvoo are expected to produce 850 tons per day (TPD) of green hydrogen, or 2.2