The Aurora Line, due for completion at the end of next year, will increase the electricity transmission capacity between Finland and Sweden by nearly 1,000 MW. It will significantly reinforce Finland’s power system and stabilise the electricity price.
The Aurora Line – a new AC connection between Finland and Sweden – will be completed in 2025. At the same time, Fingrid is strengthening Finland’s internal electricity grid by building a line from north to south.
The third transmission line between Finland and Sweden, running from Pyhänselkä in Muhos, Finland, to Messaure in Northern Sweden, is proceeding as planned. Fingrid and Svenska kraftnät are jointly responsible for the project. The connection will reduce the price of electricity in Finland.
Fingrid and Svenska Kraftnät are working together to design a new electricity transmission link from Messaure in Northern Sweden to Pyhänselkä to the southeast of Oulu in Finland.
Since 2010, Finland’s main grid has expanded more than ever before. The pace will accelerate further in the coming years. The Aurora Line transmission link is this decade’s most significant investment in the main grid.
On an Aurora Line worksite nearly 50 kilometres long, the conditions can change daily. Therefore, even if the work phase feels familiar, safety must be assured every time the team starts work. Adherence to the safety plan and ongoing risk assessment are part of the everyday work on this demanding site.
When transmission lines are made from aluminium produced with renewable energy, their carbon dioxide emissions decrease substantially. Fingrid has encouraged conductor suppliers to produce green aluminium and is pioneering the use of such conductors.
Detailed planning and foresight are the key jobs of a project manager on a transmission line project. They must also be ready to respond swiftly to unexpected challenges.
The partnership between Finland’s Fingrid, Sweden’s Svenska kraftnät and Estonia’s Elering is wide-ranging. The goal is a unified electricity system that uses as little carbon as possible and allows all these countries to get electricity at the market price.
Finland’s internal transmission grid has two cross-sections, which Fingrid uses to monitor electricity transmission. In the future, several
times as much electricity will need to be transmitted over the cross-sections.
Fingrid Oyj
Läkkisepäntie 21
00620 Helsinki
Tel. 030 395 5267
Fingrid is Finland’s transmission system operator. We secure reliable electricity cost effectively for our customers and society, and shape the clean, market-oriented power system of the future.
