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The Toppila Power Station is a power station in the
Toppila Toppila is a district of Oulu, Finland. It is bounded by the Toppilansalmi strait in the south and west, Rail transport in Finland, railway in the east and the Taskila district in the north. The Möljä Bridge over the Toppilansalmi strait connects ...
district in Oulu,
Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. it is one of the largest peat-fired power stations in the world, with an installed capacity of of electric power and 340 MW of thermal power. The facility operates two units of and . The
boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centr ...
was supplied by
Tampella Oy Tampella Ab was a Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging. The company was based mainly in the Naistenlahti district of the city of ...
and Ahlstrom, and the
turbines A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek , ''tyrbē'', or Latin ''turbo'', meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful Work (physics), work. The work produced by a turbine can be used ...
were supplied by Zamech, LMZ and
Ganz The Ganz Works or Ganz ( or , ''Ganz companies'', formerly ''Ganz and Partner Iron Mill and Machine Factory'') was a group of companies operating between 1845 and 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. It was named after Ábrahám Ganz, the founder and th ...
. The power station is operated by Oulun Energia. In 2021 an estimated 2 million tonnes of peat was burnt in Finland. The EU is helping to fund a just transition away from this.


See also

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Energy in Finland Energy in Finland describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Finland. Energy policy of Finland describes the politics of Finland related to energy. Electricity sector in Finland is the main article of electricity in ...
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List of largest power stations in the world This article lists the largest power stations in the world, the ten overall and the five of each type, in terms of current installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear fuel, natural g ...
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List of power stations in Finland The following page lists all power stations in Finland. Non-renewable Nuclear Fossil fuel Renewable Biomass and peat Hydroelectric See also * Energy in Finland * Energy policy of Finland *Electricity sector in Finland * L ...


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Buildings and structures in Oulu Peat-fired power stations in Finland {{Finland-struct-stub