Green electricity threatens to Pori Archipelago

The inhabitants of Pori Kolpanlahti consider the nature and numerous properties of the wind power company to destroy the electricity transmission. So far, sea breeze is not produced elsewhere in Finland.

Viewed from Kolpanlahti in the Pori archipelago, plans for producing green energy do not seem very green. Local residents consider new plans to transmit electricity transmission.

Tahkoluoto Offshore is planning to expand the sea breeze off Tahkoluoto. With 11 turbines now grinding, an extension of a couple of billion euros would mean the construction of 40 wind turbines on the sea.

Tahkoluoto is so far the only place in Finland where sea breeze is produced. This is about to change rapidly, with thirty new sea breeze parks on the Finnish coast and outdoor sea. None of them are in the construction phase.

In Pori, the potential effects of the wind farm project on the sea area and the nature of the archipelago have sparked strong debate in the area’s inhabitants. A similar situation may be ahead in the next few years as more sea wind parks are being built.

New power plants appearing in the sea landscape of the Kolpanlahti area of \u200b\u200bthe Kolpanlahti region are not the sea landscape, but a cross -transmission connection to the archipelago. It is to be built with over 80 meters high overhead lines.

Tahkoluoto Offshore has two alternative routes to the electricity transmission of the sea breeze extension. Especially one of the design routes is one that is feared to cause major damage to the people and nature of the bay.

Kolpanlahti is a great example of the fact that solar and wind power production can be unfortunately on the skin of humans and animals, even though electricity is ground for kilometers away.

– This place will become unusable if a new transmission line is built. Probably the cottage goes to redemption, Kallio thinks.

She and her husband bought a cottage a few years ago, and even planned to move permanently to the Kolpanlahti landscape.

Now the plans have been set aside.

The renovation of the cottage has also been abandoned due to electricity transmission policies.

Kallio emphasizes that he is not against a green transition.

– I am against how poorly these transmission routes are designed, and how poorly the views of the residents have been taken into account.

Opportunities are sought through an association

The route alternative across the northern part of Pori Kolpanlahti made the area’s property owners organized about a year ago.

The association would not want a new electricity transmission connection to be built several kilometers across the bay next to the old transmission line.

– In practice, the transfer line would destroy this entire archipelago. A new line would require a large amount of artificial islands, for example. Construction of them would change the flows and eutroph the sea area, he says.

The association has calculated that there would be about 200 properties in the area of \u200b\u200bthe new electrical transmission line. It estimates that the construction of a transfer line would lead to ban and expulsions of several permanent and holiday homes.

The people of Kolpanlahti are also afraid of the bird’s birds and fish that the new transmission line is built.

– The electricity transmission line could be very well built along the road or implemented with underground cables. There is no point in crossing the water, says Huhtala.

Huhtala refers to another possible option where a new power transmission connection would pass along the Pori Archipelago Road. It is currently in the environmental impact assessment procedure (EIA). Tahkoluoto Offshore is also starting the environmental surveys and seabed surveys of transmission routes.

The EIA report is estimated to be completed in the spring. After that, the Southwest Finland ELY Center draws its final conclusions.

In a statement from the EIA program, it has instructed Tahkoluoto Offshore, among other things, to take into account the aspects of local people in EIA. The ELY Center considers their involvement in the project particularly important.

– Local residents are one of the best experts in their living environment. According to opinions, communication and interaction need to be increased, says the ELY Center in Southwest Finland in its opinion.

The electricity transmission route for the extension of the Tahkoluoto Maritime Wind Park is not the only scary plan for Kolpanlahti residents.

The Swedish company Eolus is planning a gigantic sea breeze on the open sea off the open sea, and there is also a crossing of Kolpanlahti among the electricity transmission options.

Wind Power Company: Electricity must be transmitted

He considers Kolpanlahti to be important in terms of environmental value. However, the melter does not see the big difference between whether the transmission line passes through Kolpanlahti or the Pori Archipelago Road.

– Our work is to reduce the disadvantages and see what the alternative is the least harmful in nature and social impact. We try to get the smallest evil, the Sulamer says.

According to him, the best option would be to refurbish the old transmission line through Kolpanlahti. However, its use has not been agreed with the owner, Fortum.

The Seltamer sees this as a big loss. It forces you to build a new line for electricity transmission.

– We have to choose a route. No two billion investment can be made if there is no power line.

The price of electricity transmission for a couple of billion projects is several tens of millions of euros, with current route options and overhead lines.

Tahkoluoto Offshore has also investigated the cost of possible marine and underground cable connections. They would be many times more than overhead lines. However, the company will not exclude this option if there is a sensible solution.