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Energy sector in Estonia has created up to 500 new jobs in forestry
Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 04.02.2010.
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Print versionAccording to Estonia's State Forest Management Center (RMK), approximately 300 to 500 working places have been created in Estonia, in forestry industry as a result of wider implementation of renewable energy sources, BBN/LETA reports. Among other, wooded chips in the Väo and Narva power plants were widely used.
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Estonia's State Forest Management Center said that heads of private and state forests welcome the opportunity of selling low-quality timber to electricity and thermal energy generation plants.
RMK delivers wooden chips to Narva Power Plants, the subsidiary of Estonian energy enterprise Eesti Energia, and to the Väo co-generation plant that belongs to Dalkia.
RMK sells to the Narva Power Plants approximately 17,000 cubic meters of wooden chips and to Vao Power Plant – about 6,000 cubic meters of wooden chips per month.
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