Hanasaari Power Plant

The coal store to be moved to the silos to be built next to the Hanasaari B as the southern part of the site will be restored for residential use.

The residential area, named 'Tropaion', is designed by the Finnish architect bureau ALA.[2][3] There is an experimental documentary Hanasaari A by Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen.

Helsingin Energia planned to modernize the Hanasaari power plant for combustion of biomass (wood) between 2014 and 2018.

[7] The Helsinki-owned energy company Helen Oy shut down all operations at the Hanasaari plant on Saturday 1 April 2023 as part of Helsinki's goal to reach carbon neutrality by the year 2030.

The closure was referred as an "important, historic change for the capital, the country and the world at large" by the Mayor Juhana Vartiainen.

Hanasaari A power plant in 2007 (dismantled in 2008)
The Hanasaari B power plant seen from Merihaka two days after its announced shutdown at the end of March 2023