On 15 September 2017, Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment published the long-anticipated draft proposal for the upcoming renewables support scheme.

Startup enterprises, often originally established in a simple form, regularly need to adapt their shareholder structure: Persons that can contribute important know-how acquire shares as well as investors of venture capital.

The Ministry of Finance has published a draft governmental bill proposing that multiple turbines belonging to the same wind park would be considered as clusters for the purposes of real estate taxation. The power plant real estate tax could be utilised by municipalities for wind parks with a nominal capacity of more than 10 MVA.

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