Lately, the fields of energy and environmental technology have been seen as the most potential successors to the current giants of Finnish exports, the mobile technology and forest industries. The export figures of the industry specialising in renewable energy production and energy efficiency have been very positive. New energy investments are being made in far-off countries as well as in Europe, where MEUR 640 will be invested over the next eight years just in improving energy efficiency.

EnergyVaasa, the centre of energy technology in the Vaasa Region, consists of more than a hundred companies that produce technology both for renewable energy production and for the improvement of energy efficiency. These companies are doing everything they can to take as large a part as possible of the investments in energy technology made all over the world. Already, EnergyVaasa is responsible for as much as a third of Finland’s energy technology exports.

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