Country Report Finland
Jussi Hirvonen
Delegate of Finland
Executive Director, Finnish Heat Pump Association SULPU ry

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Finland Has Become a Heat PumpSuperpower
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3De-electrify our electric heating withHPs
Get rid of our oil heating with HPs
On the long run get rid of burning
biomass in District Heating with HPs

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Finland

Facts about the Happiest Country in the World•

5,5 million population••

338 440 km2,
GDP 45 372 €•••80 TWh/a, heating of buildings
80 TWh/a, consumption of electricity, peakload 15 000 MW
No gas grid••

1,2 million single family houses
0,5 million free time houses•

190 000 lakes

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ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION 2022

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CO2-EMISSIONS OF POWER GENERATION
EU-27, v. 2019: 275 g CO2 / kWh
Source: EEA

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NOTE:
Smart electricity
metering in every
household
Spot price tariff more
and more common

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MARKET SHARE OF SPACE HEATINGRESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS

80 TWh/aHeat pump: includes the electricity
consumption of heat pumps
Electricity: includes the electricity
consumption of heat distribution
equipment and electric sauna stoves
Wood: includes the wood used bysauna stoves

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ENERGY SOURCES OF DISTRICT HEATING (2022)• Recovered (recycled) heat:
energy that would otherwise
go to waste• Other biofuels: includes also
the bio share of municipal
waste• Other: non-bio share ofmunicipal waste, plastic orhazardous waste, electricity.

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9Share of renewables and recovered heat well more than a half in
district heat supply• Fossil fuels have increasingly
been replaced by biomass
and recovered heat.
• Use of biomass has morethan doubled during lastdecade.
• Amount of recovered heathas more than tripled since2010. Recovered heatconsists mainly of waste
heat. Fuel consumption is
avoided by making use ofsurplus heat.

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HEATING CHOICES IN NEW BUILDINGS

Source: Statistics Finland, Granted building permits (heated cubic volume)

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Heat Pumps has been a glorious story inFinlandMarket shares of space and DHW
heating (~80TWh/a)ØHeat Pump sector is big, 14 TWh/a, 16 % of the heating ofFinland (80 TWh/a) (+DH production with HPs)
ØInvestments in 1,5 million heat pumps, already 8 billion eurosØInvestment level now about 1 billion/a in 200.000 HPs/aincrease of about 1 TWh/a HP heat productionØMarket–based business, investments made mainly by private
consumers, subsidizing level modest

Source: Finnish Energy, 2021

CUMULATIVE HEAT PUMP SALES IN FINLAND (PCS)(MEGAWATT-SIZE DISTRICT HEATING/COOLING , SHOPPING CENTER, SERVICE BUILDING , INDUSTRIAL HPS
AS WELL AS PLANNING , SERVICE, ETC. ARE MISSING FROM FIGURES BELOW)
PCS

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ANNUAL HEAT PUMP INSTALLATIONS IN
FINLAND (PCS)PCSANNUAL HEAT PUMP INVESTMENTS IN FINLAND(MEUR)
MEU
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Average investment: GSHP 33.000€, AWHP 15.000€, EAHP 9.000€, AAHP 2.400€(emphasis by the capacity of sold heat pumps)

Attentions along the way•

Remember the HP investor. He decides. In the most cases it is end consumer– Profitabilty, communication, marketing , sales, delivery, aftersales, reputation•Distribution chain– Winning concept in Scandinavia when starting the HP business has been often direct
distribution: Local specialized companies with turnkey-deliveries. often without
wholesaler. One local stop shop with good service.

•Business model development– E.g., Energy companies must come and invest more and more in decentralized HP
solutions, when the competition of the heating of bigger buildings is getting tougher.
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Finland Has Become a Heat Pump Superpower

EHPA MARKET REPOPRT 2022

To do list:
Market shares of space and DHW heating (~80TWh/a)q De-electrify our electric heatingwith HPs
q Get rid of our oil heating with HPs
q On the long run get rid of burning
biomass in District Heating withHPs=> duplicate heat production by HPs
by 2030 and triplicate by 2040