Fennovoima

Fennovoima Ltd
Fennovoima Oy
Private limited company
Industry nuclear power
Founded 2007
Headquarters Helsinki, Finland
Key people
 Pekka Ottavainen (Chairman)
Juha Nurmi (CEO)
Owner Voimaosakeyhtiö SF (66 %) and RAOS Voima Oy (34 %)[1]
Website www.fennovoima.com

Fennovoima Ltd (Finnish: Fennovoima Oy)[2][3] is a Finnish nuclear power company established by a consortium of Finnish power and industrial companies.

The company does not own any nuclear capacities; however, it is preparing to build the 1200 MW Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant at Pyhäjoki.[4]

Fennovoima Board

The Chairman of Fennovoima's Board is Juhani Pitkäkoski, Senior Vice President of M&A of Caverion Corporation while the Vice Chairman is Anastasia Zoteeva, Deputy Director General for Business Development of Rusatom Energy International. Other board members are Esa Lager, former CFO of Outokumpu Plc; Juha Mäkitalo, Attorney-at-Law; Stefan Storholm, CEO of Katternö Group; Seppo Siljama, and CEO of Rusatom Energy International Nikita Konstantinov. Deputy Members of the Board are Ilkka Salonen, CEO of Garmoshka Ltd, Djurica Tankosic, President of Global Nuclear of Worley Parsons; Jussi Lehto, CEO of Keravan Energia and Pekka Erkkilä, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Outokumpu. [5]

Based on WikiLeaks publications Djurica Tankosic has close ties to the Bulgarian energy sector's top chief. This Bulgarian is suspected of crimes related to the Russian Rosatom nuclear power plant initiative in Bulgaria. Manchev is suspected, among other things, of forging environmental reports.[6] In 205 Fennovoima told they did not know about what Tancosic has claimed to do in 2006 and said that the issue is not related to Fennovoima's project at all.[7]

Shareholders

Finnish industry, trade and the energy companies in need of their own electricity production started the company in 2007. Originally Fennovoima was created as a partnership between Voimaosakeyhtiö SF, a cooperative producing electricity for its owners' needs at production cost in proportion to their ownership share (Mankala), with 66% and the German power company E.ON with 34%. After E.ON's withdrawal from Finland, Voimaosakeyhtiö SF briefly owned 100% of Fennovoima shares.[8] [9] [10] According to the agreement with Russian Rosatom, RAOS Voima Oy, a Finnish subsidiary of Rosatom, acquired a 34% stake which previously belonged to E.ON.[11] Although RAOS Voima was prepared to take 49% in the project, Voimaosakeyhtiö SF commits to own more than half of the power plant and aims to increase the share of Finnish companies up to 66%.[12] As of 2014, Voimaosakeyhtiö SF has 44 shareholders.[12]

In 2016 Fennovoima is owned by Finnish Voimaosakeyhtiö SF (66 %) and Rosatom's subsidiary RAOS Voima Oy (34 %). Voimaosakeyhtiö SF includes industrial and trading companies as well as local energy utilities which are mainly owned by municipalities. [1]

Power plant project

Government approval

On 21 April 2010, the Government of Finland decided to grant a permit (Decision-in-Principle) to Fennovoima for construction of a nuclear reactor.[13] [14] [15] The decision was approved by the Parliament on 1 July 2010.[16] [17]

Timetable

The estimated construction time is six years until 2024.

Plant supplier

The chosen plant model is Rosatom's pressurized water reactor AES-2006 which is the latest evolution of VVER plant designs. The other bidders for the project were Areva and Toshiba.

Fennovoima began direct negotiations with Rosatom in April 2013. On 21 December 2013, Fennovoima and Rosatom Overseas, a subsidiary of Rosatom, signed a plant supply contract. The plant should be commissioned by 2024.[18] [19]

Investment decision

On 28 February 2014 Voimaosakeyhtiö SF made the final decision to participate in Fennovoima's nuclear power plant construction.[12] The final investment decision would be made in 2014.[19]

Application

Fennovoima submitted application in the end of June 2015 including the stakeholder with a 35 percent share of the Russian firm Rosatom and a percent share of Croatian power company Migrit Energija.[20] On August 2015 it was informed that Migrit Solarna Energija will not be involved in the venture.

On 5th August Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä said that the Fennovoima nuclear power plant will be approved. By then Finland’s third nuclear plant had attained the required 60 percent domestic or EU/EEA ownership level. The new share owners were energy giant Fortum with a 6.6 percent share and the construction firm SRV (which will be a building subcontractor on the site) with a 1.8 percent share, both of them via Voimaosakeyhtiö SF. Also steel manufacturer Outokumpu, whose steelworks in Tornio will be the biggest consumer of Fennovoima electricity, upped its ownership share by 1.8 percent to 14.1 percent.[21]

Critics

In July 2015 less than a third of Finns supported Fennovoima nuclear plant.[22]

According to Greenpeace's critic nuclear electricity is more expensive than alternatives.[23] Financial models predict the plant will produce electricity at no more than €50 per MWh.[24]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Fennovoima owners". Fennovoima. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  2. ↑ "Fennovoima Oy". Business Information System. Helsinki: The National Board of Patents and Registration and the Tax Administration, Finland. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Fennovoima Oy. Yhtiöjärjestys" [Fennovoima Ltd. Articles of Association] (PDF). Ydinvoimalaitoksen periaatepäätöshakemus (in Finnish). Helsinki: Fennovoima Oy. 1 December 2008. p. 22. Retrieved 5 October 2011. Yhtiön toiminimi on Fennovoima Oy, ruotsiksi Fennovoima Ab ja englanniksi Fennovoima Ltd. [The trade name of the company is Fennovoima Oy, in Swedish Fennovoima Ab, and in English Fennovoima Ltd.]
  4. ↑ "New nuclear reactor to be built at Pyhäjoki". YLE News (Helsinki: Yleisradio). 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Fennovoima Board". Fennovoima. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  6. ↑ Paper: Fennovoima board member connected to Bulgarian energy mafia Yle 21.7.2015
  7. ↑ "Fennovoima sanoutui irti hallitusvaikuttajan kytkösepäilyistä". Aamulehti. 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  8. ↑ "EOn withdraws from Fennovoima". World Nuclear News. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "E.On pulling out of Fennovoima – Pyhäjoki nuclear project in jeopardy". Helsingin Sanomat. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "Voimaosakeyhtiö SF purchased E.ON's share in Fennovoima" (Press release). Fennovoima. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  11. ↑ "Rosatom buys into Fennovoima". World Nuclear News. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 "Finnish firms commit to Fennovoima". World Nuclear News. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  13. ↑ "Two out of three for Finland". World Nuclear News. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  14. ↑ "Finnish government says yes to TVO and Fennovoima". Nuclear Engineering International (Global Trade Media). 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  15. ↑ "Finland approves nuclear power license to Fennovoima". World Construction Industry Network. 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  16. ↑ Kinnunen, Terhi (2010-07-01). "Finnish parliament agrees plans for two reactors". Reuters. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  17. ↑ Kinnunen, Terhi (2011-10-05). "Finland names 1st nuclear site after Fukushima". Reuters. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
  18. ↑ "Finland's Fennovoima signs reactor deal with Rosatom". Reuters. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  19. 1 2 "Fennovoima and Rusatom Overseas signed plant supply contract" (Press release). Fennovoima. 2013-12-21. Retrieved 2014-01-12.
  20. ↑ Fennovoima gets new Croatian owners, hits permit deadline—but questions remain 30.6.2015
  21. ↑ "Finnish ministers: Fennovoima reactor will go ahead". YLE. 2015-08-05. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  22. ↑ Less than a third of Finns support Fennovoima nuclear plant Yle News 23.7.2015
  23. ↑ Hurjat luvut Fennovoimasta – näinkö veronmaksajia huijataan?
  24. ↑ "Nuclear power chiefs assess path to new capacity growth". World Nuclear News. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

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