Natural resources and its products in Estonia

NATURAL RESOURCES AND ITS PRODUCTS

IN ESTONIA

Heating in private houses 2010

Production of electricity 2012

Central heating 2010

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Statistics Estonia

Use of Energy in Estonia

Use of natural resources

Electric energy GWh

Heating energy GWh

private houses

industrial

public and

business

Statistics Estonia

In 2012 natural gas, liquid fuels, coal were imported for domestic consumption.

Statistics Estonis

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Domestic energy products exported in 2012 were shale oil, electricity, peat and wood products.

Materials used:

Statistics Estonia

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http://www.thermia.com/heatpump/

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The Eesti and Balti power plants in Narva are the most powerful oil shale-fired power plants in the world. Most of electricity for homes and industries in Estonia comes from Narva.

Statistics Estonis

In 2012 the share of electricity generated from renewable souces was 15,2 %.

In final energy consuption it was 25,9 %.

https://www.energia.ee/en/polevkivienergeetika

Photos Sten Perillus

Voice Anu Annus

Supervisor Viivika Leis

Paide wood-fuel-based combined heat and power (CHP) plant produces 8 MW of heating energy and 2 MW of electricity. People living in houses of flats in Paide can get energy for heating there. Tubes and pipes from power plant go to each house. People have radiators on the walls where hot water circulates. This is called central heating system.

Shale oil

Statistics Estonia

Renewable energy in Estonia:

Wood and biogas

Peat

Wind energy

Hydro energy

Solar energy

Geothermal energy

Garbage, waste

https://www.energia.ee/en/koostootmine

Statistics Estonia

OIL SHALE -

our most important natural resource.

Oil shale is mined in open cast mines and...

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Oil Shale

...underground mines.

https://www.energia.ee/en/polevkivi

Photo by Anneli Tumanski

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Oil shale can be used directly as a fuel for producing

energy or synthetic oil.

In 2012, 81% of electricity was produced from oil shale.

Last year 18,7 million tons of oil shale was mined.

Oil shale is a sedimentary rock formed on the bottom of lakes

and seas 400 - 450 million years ago. Oil shale is made from

the organic substances.

Oil shale and environment problems:

minings change the landscape, disturb groundwater, energy power plants produce a lot of CO 2 and ashes.

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Photo: Rauno Volmar http://g2.nh.ee/images/pix/900x585/23f9428e/6rv06may06f74jpg-66959348.jpg

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WIND

http://www.thermia.com/heatpump/ground-source-heat-pumps.asp

Oil shale is found in north-eastern part of Estonia.

There were 126 turbines installed by the end of 2012 in Estonia.

Last year the wind turbines produced about 5,5 % of the total electricity consumption in Estonia.

PEAT comes from bogs

https://www.energia.ee/en/taastuvenergia

GARBAGE, WASTE

WOOD

Biomass is produced from low-quality wood, scrub, reeds and agricultural waste. Estonia has large resources of biomass.

http://polevkivi.blogspot.com/2008/11/plevkivi-pole-maailmale-uus-avastus.html

Peat consists of peat moss plant.

https://www.energia.ee/en/taastuvenergia

...wood pellets.

In 2012, about 90 % of the wood pellets were exported.

Statistics Estonia

Photos: http://www.merumer.eu/

HYDRO ENERGY

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Heating products from wood: tree logs for private houses

Peat briquette for heating

Eesti Energia started using waste to produce energy at Iru Power Plant in 2013, where a modern waste-to-energy power unit was built.

The Iru waste-to-energy unit can incinerate up to 220,000 tons of waste per year.

Photo: http://www.maripuu.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/peat_briquettes.jpg

Photos by Sten Perillus https://www.energia.ee/en/koostootmine

In many private houses there are stoves heated with wood.

Photohttp://www.firewoodmaster.ee/:

The Linnamäe hydroelectric plant has the highest production capacity of all the hydroelectric plants

in Estonia at 1.2 MW.

Peat deposits

There are quite a lot of hydroelectric plants in Estonia, but on a global scale these are still micro hydroelectric plants.

https://www.energia.ee/en/taastuvenergia

SOLAR ENERGY

...wood chips for central heating power plants

Solar energy in Estonia is not very important yet. There are very few households using solar energy in Estonia.

Peat production

Photo: http://www.hakkepuit.ee/

photo: http://www.sigmaprojekt.ee/wp/

Image by Tom Mooring