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Prokon Finland has moved its office to a larger office space in the city center of Vaasa. The new address is Pitkäkatu 34 B, 65100 Vaasa.

As of today, the wind farm Hedet in Finland will supply Google-owned engineering service provider Tuike Finland with green electricity. As part the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed in 2018, all 81 Megawatt produced by the turbines will be delivered exclusively to the subsidiary of Google LLC. The construction phase of all 18 wind turbines of the wind park was successfully administered by German energy cooperative Prokon and French renewable energy producer Neoen.

With the last turbine erected as early as December 2019, all necessary tests on the 18 Nordex N-149/4.0-4.5 turbines have since been completed and the wind farm is now officially up and running. The wind park owned by Prokon and Neoen is the first of three projects in Finland owned by the duo to enter its production phase.

“Concluding the construction stage for the first of our projects in Finland is a significant step for us“, states Head of Prokon Finland Michael Sandberg. “Having fully operational wind turbines lifts our overall activities in Finland to a new level. It proves that we are able to successfully achieve the ambitious goals we set out to reach.“

Vaasa Administrative Court has rejected 17.4.2020 the appeal against Kattiharju land use plan. Decision is not yet legally in force.

Hyrynsalmi municipality granted June 19, 2019 building permits for 5 wind turbines in Lumivaara. Building permits were appealed to Administrative Court. Building permits gained legal force in March 17, 2020.

• Prokon has developed a new wind farm in Finnish Mutkalampi with a capacity of up to 250 MW

• Prokon has closed a sale of an 80% share of the ownership in the wind farm to Neoen

• Prokon and Neoen, through their Mutkalampi wind farm joint venture, has entered into a 130 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google

Itzehoe. Over the past weeks, Prokon, together with its project partner Neoen, finalized its second power purchase agreement (PPA) with US technology giant Google. 130 megawatt (MW) of an expected total of app. 250 MW produced by a new wind farm near Mutkalampi, in Central and Northern Ostrobothnia, western Finland, will be providing Google’s facilities with renewable energy from 2022 onwards. Construction will begin in early 2021 with commissioning expected by the end of the year thereafter.

Nykarleby city council approved Storbötet II land use plan proposal August 29, 2019. Land use plan allows to construct 18 wind turbines in the planned area. Land use plan proposal has been appealed to Vaasa Administrative Court.

Supreme Administrative Court has rejected 21.05.2019 the appeal against Lumivaara land use plan. Land use plan is now legally in force.

Vasa Administrative Court has on November 18, 2018 rejected the appeal against Björkliden Land use plan. The Land use plan has entered into legal force and therefore also the construction restrictions on the building permits have been lifted.

The land use plan proposal for Storbötet-Nykarleby is up for public viewing from November 30, 2018 to January 4, 2019. The land use plan proposal can be found at the city notice board, at the Office of Nykarleby city building department and on the Nykarleby’s home page.

Prokon Finland, a subsidiary of Prokon Regenerative Energien eG, the largest renewable energy cooperative in Germany and Neoen, the leading independent producer of exclusively renewable energy in France, have signed a power purchase agreement with Google, to provide the U.S. based technology company with green electricity.

Google is to purchase all the electricity produced by the 81 MW Hedet wind farm in Finland, owned by Neoen (80%) and Prokon (20%).