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Power plants in Finland

185 power-plant records · 11,797 MW reported capacity

  • Hydro 51%
  • Biomass 21%
  • Gas 9%
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Finland at a glance

Power-plant records
185
Reported capacity
11,797 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
55.9%
Most records
Hydro, Biomass
Grid operator
Fingrid
Capital
Helsinki

Records by technology

Counts records, not generation share · coverage & dates

Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.

How electricity works in Finland

Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail

Nuclear (including Olkiluoto 3), hydro, wind and biomass supply the grid. Electricity is traded through Nord Pool and many households have hourly-priced contracts.

  1. GenerationCompeting generators
  2. TransmissionIndependent grid operator
  3. DistributionRegulated local networks
  4. CustomersYou choose a supplier

Who regulates

Who controls the grid

Fingrid, majority owned by the state, runs the main grid; around 80 local companies run distribution.

Markets & power exchanges

Regional grid

  • ENTSO-E · Nordic gridRegional grid

    Part of the Nordic synchronous area shared by Norway, Sweden, Finland and eastern Denmark, with a common power exchange across the region.

What does “Liberalised market” mean?

Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.

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ELECTRICITY IN 2024

How Finland generates electricity

Electricity generated82.6 TWh
Renewable share55.9%
Low-carbon share95.4%
Carbon intensity66.6 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro14.3 TWh
Wind20.5 TWh
Solar0.94 TWh
Bioenergy10.4 TWh
Other renewables0 TWh
Nuclear32.6 TWh
Coal0.83 TWh
Gas0.82 TWh
Other fossil2.2 TWh

Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

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Geography and data notes

Finland stretches from the Baltic coast into northern Fennoscandia. Lakes, forests and long river systems shape a dispersed settlement pattern and the geography of its generation infrastructure.

Capital
Helsinki
Languages
Finnish, Swedish
Major cities
Helsinki, Tampere, Turku

Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.

The source inventory contains 185 records for Finland. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.

Inventory coverage

185 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.

0 lack an owner/operator; 184 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
THE GENERATION INVENTORY

List of power plants in Finland

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Browse 185 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.

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332.6 MW
Owner in source
Fingrid Oyj
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
Not reported
Source status
Operating status unverified
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