The founder of the company, Juha Sipilä, was looking for an electricity supplier for his cottage in 1998. A tender of 424,000 marks in those days made him consider building his own power station. The project turned into a self-sufficient island in terms of energy, where electricity was produced with wind and diesel with an aggregate. An idea of replacing diesel with wood chippings was soon born.

Wood gas was both a more economical and environmental alternative, and, hence, the idea tested at the cottage was turned into wider use: Kempele Ecovillage became Finland’s first housing estate that was self-sufficient and off the grid, where energy was produced independently and almost without emissions, thanks to the use of wood chips and wind power.

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