Social Responsibility Report 2020

Social Responsibility Report 2020

COMPANY PRESENTATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT 2020 ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 1 VISION We are building the future of water, energy and resource efficiency services – for our customers, employees and partners. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 2 Electricity Heat Water y Easy everyday life Right temperature Fresh and pure year round ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 3 Our organisation Customers Customer accounts Networks Energy production Group services CEO Tuomo Kantola Board of Directors, Chair Jari Blom ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 4 Company ownership structure City of Jyväskylä 100% 44.7% KS Energiavälitys Oy Alva-yhtiöt Oy Heat, electricity and water 33.3% C-Ella Oy 100% 100% 81.4%* 100% 100% 12.5% Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy Alva Alva Rauhalahti Jyväskylän Alva Hulevesi Oy Alva Viitasaari Oy Sähköverkko Oy Voima Oy Oy 20.3% Väre Energia Oy Subsidiaries Other holdings *Direct ownership 79.74% ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 5 Alva throughout its history The streets of Jyväskylä In May, it is decided that Väre are lit by electric street Energia Oy, a joint venture for lights, 19 October 1902. electricity sales and services, will be established together with A district heating Kuopion Energia, Savon Voima accumulator is and Lappeenrannan Energia. District heat completed. JE Group Inauguration of Jyväskylän The PISARA production with acquires all the Keljonlahti Voima’s concept is Electricity generation begins wood chips shares in power plant. investment in coal launched. with wood at the Lutakko begins. Jyväskylän equipment is electricity plant. Biogas combustion Energiantuotanto completed. Jyväskylä Energy acquires Wiitasseudun to produce heat Oy. Energia Oy. begins. 1902 1960 1995 1997 1992003 2006 2009 2010 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Water business Jyväskylä JE-Urakointi’s The IED JE Hulevesi Oy is Jyväskylän New names for Jyväskylän (Jyväskylän Vesi) is Jyväskylä City Council Energy business investment in established on 18 Energia Oy the subsidiaries: Energiantuotanto Oy merged into JE establishes municipal becomes a operations are Rauhalahti is September 2017. becomes Alva- Alva Viitasaari is established. Group. electricity works on 23 April limited liability sold to JyNet completed. yhtiöt Oy on 23 Oy, Alva 1902. company. Urakointi. October 2019. Rauhalahti Oy, Alva Hulevesi Oy JE-Siirto Oy and Jyväskylän Voima Oy are established. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 6 EMPLOYEES ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 7 We take care of your basic needs. We ensure that water comes from your tap, electricity from your wall socket and your toes stay warm. Every single day. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 8 WE EMPLOY Our entire chain carries out some 1,000 person-years, every year. Cooperation with us provides tens of millions of euros for Finnish companies, such as transport and machine 240 contractors. SPECIALISTS ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 9 EMPLOYEES Employees by group company Employees by company Change in the number of employees 300 450 250 400 ALRAI 200 350 ALVI 300 150 250 JVO 100 200 JEU 50 150 0 Alva SV Alva 100 Alva JVO JYT WSE Total SV 50 Alva Women 56 2 0 0 1 59 0 Men 153 20 2 0 6 181 • All JE-Urakointi (JEU) employees transferred to JyNet Urakointi Oy in an acquisition on 1 March 2012. • At the beginning of 2015, operating employees of JVO and JYT transferred to Jyväskylän Energia. • Eight employees from Wiitaseudun Energia transferred to Jyväskylän Energia Group on 1 December 2018. • Alva SV = Alva Sähköverkko, ALRAI = Alva Rauhalahti, ALVI = Alva Viitasaari ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 10 FINANCES ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 11 Turnover of group companies in 2020 (€ million) 127.8 Alva-yhtiöt Oy 53.8 Jyväskylän Voima Oy 23.6 22.6 Alva Alva Rauhalahti Sähköverkko Oy Oy 3.2 3.5 Alva Hulevesi Alva Viitasaari Oy Oy ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 12 Group’s turnover and result in 2010–2020 250 210,3 202,7 195 193,9 200 185 183,4 186,4 190.6 167 163,4 152,3 150 100 50 0 -50 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Turnover (€ million) Profit before appropriations and taxes (€ million) ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 13 NETWORKS Electricity, heat, water ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 14 NETWORKS Electricity network Alva Sähköverkko Oy, a company wholly owned by Alva, is responsible for the electricity network in the city of Jyväskylä. It designs, builds, maintains and operates the electricity network, connects customers to it and carries out electricity measurements. Alva Sähköverkko maintains a network of 1,364 kilometres in total. In 2020, some 641 GWh of electricity was transmitted to more than 10,300 connections. On a national scale, Alva Sähköverkko is among the electricity network companies with the lowest rates. More information: alva.fi/sahkoverkko ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 15 NETWORKS Heat network Alva generates district heating at power plants, from where it is transmitted to customers via a heat network. The same network can also be used for district cooling. Alva’s heat network is in a good condition, which has also helped to keep the prices of district heating reasonable. Prices have not increased between 2015 and 2020. Maintaining the heat network is important, as many homes and workplaces in Jyväskylä are heated using district heating. Heat generated in Jyväskylä is also transmitted to most Jyväskylä-based schools, daycare centres, hospitals and health centres. Alva is also responsible for the district heating network in Viitasaari. Alva’s district heating network totals 487 kilometres in the Jyväskylä region and 39 kilometres in Viitasaari. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 16 NETWORKS Water supply network Our obligation and responsibility is to distribute clean, safe and analysed tap water to our customers via a well-functioning supply network. In 2020, investments in water supply networks and water production totalled €12.7 million. These investments were funded by operating income. In 2020, significant investments in water supply included the modernisation of Viitaniemi water treatment plant and the modernisation of water supply systems in Nisula and Lohikoski. We maintain 873 kilometres of water supply networks in the Jyväskylä region and 95 kilometres in Viitasaari. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 17 PRODUCTION ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 18 Our annual production (2020) 1.1 0.5 8.9 Mm3 of water TWh of heat Twh of electricity ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 19 ENERGY PRODUCTION Heat and electricity ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 20 Our ecological energy production • Keljonlahti and Rauhalahti, our two power plants, • As a result of our holdings in Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy, are combined heat and power plants. Combined the use of wind power in our electricity production production saves one third of fuel compared with has increased significantly in recent years. separate production. • We can provide our heating customers with green • We also produce heat and power from biogas at our heat, produced wholly using renewable and micro-CHP plant. emission-free energy sources. Our green heat is certified by Kiwa. • We are aiming to be carbon neutral by 2030 and therefore constantly increasing the use of biofuels • The reuse of ash is already high – nearly 100% of (mostly wood) and using less and less peat. We are ash generated at our plants is already being reused. also investigating many new ways of producing energy without burning. • In Viitasaari (WSE) the fuels used in district heating production are 99 % wood. • We are also investing in energy savings by developing solutions to use waste heat and to balance the consumption of heat. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 21 ENERGY PRODUCTION Keljonlahti power plant • Main fuels: peat and wood • Coal and oil as auxiliary fuels when necessary • Two operating principles: • combined heat and power production (CHP) • condensing power production • Boiler power: 495 MW • Electric output in condensing power production: 215 MW • Electric output in combined production: 163 MW • District heating output: 260 MW • Year of commissioning: 2010 ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 22 ENERGY PRODUCTION Rauhalahti power plant • Main fuels: peat and wood • Oil as an auxiliary fuel when necessary • Operating principle: combined heat and power production (CHP) • Electric output: 85 MW • District heating output: 200 MW • New flue gas scrubber and electric filter installed in 2015 • Year of commissioning: 1986 ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 23 ENERGY PRODUCTION (VIITASAARI) Kokkila heat plant • Main fuels: wood • Wood used as fuel is bought from the local wood industry and forest entrepeneurs • Boiler power: 16 MW • Annual production approx. 55.000 MWh ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 24 Energy production / fuels 2020 0,8 % % Wood 0,1 % % 0,4 % % 58,5 % In 2020 the Peat share of biofuels 40,2 % was 58.9 % of all 40,2 % % Coal the used fuels. 58,5 % % 0,1 % Oil 0,8 % Biogas 0,4 % In Alva Viitasaari’s heat production fuels are 99 % biofuels (wood). ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 25 WATER PRODUCTION ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 26 WATER PRODUCTION Safe high-quality water We make sure that everyone living in the area covered by our water supply network has access to clean high-quality water. The quality of the tap water we produce is monitored constantly. In addition to quality control carried out in our laboratory, the health authority monitors the quality of water regularly. The quality of water is not only monitored at water treatment plants, but water samples are regularly taken from different parts of the network. ALVA-YHTIÖT OY 11.8.2021 27 WATER PRODUCTION Tap water produced at several plants Our most important tap water production plants are: • Viitaniemi surface water treatment plant • Vuontee artificial groundwater recharge plant in Laukaa • Janakka–Kaivovesi water supply plant in Vaajakoski We also produce water at Vihtakangas (Korpilahti), Liinalampi and Köntyslampi (Tikkakoski), Pekonniemi (Keljonkangas) and Vesanka groundwater intake plants, and in Viitasaari at Kokkolanniemi and Luukkaanniemi groundwater intake plants.

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