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Heating fuel
Heating fuel refers to the main fuel or energy source used in heating a building. There are also data on the heating fuel of dwellings. Data on the heating fuel have been obtained from the building information system maintained by the Finnish Environment Institute Syke, which receives the data from municipal building supervision authorities. Information about a change in a building’s heating fuel is usually transmitted to the system only in the event that the modifications in question have required a building permit.
The classification is as follows:
- district heating
- oil
- gas
- hard coal
- electricity
- wood
- peat
- geothermal heat
- solar energy
- heat pump
- other, unknown
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Jaa