The National Energy and Climate Strategy outlines specific goals and measures that Finland must take in order to meet its 2050 carbon neutrality target while also achieving its energy and climate goals. It significantly upgrades prior objectives for renewable energy: 1) In the 2020s, the proportion of renewable energy in total energy demand should increase to over 50%, while the use of oil products will be reduced by half; 2) investment subsidies will primarily target the commercialization of new technologies; 3) will expand the use of biofuels in transportation; will encourage the use of agricultural, societal, and industrial waste and side streams in transportation; and 4) will encourage the production and use of biogas.
Other choices include 1) concentrating transportation-related greenhouse gas emission reductions on road transport, 2) eliminating coal from the energy mix by 2030, and 3) bolstering forest growth and carbon-binding ability to stop the loss of the capacity of the carbon sink. In order to promote stability by pursuing new projects being developed on market conditions, allow for long-term competitiveness of the Finnish economy, and lessen the load on the State's budget, feed-in-tariffs will be "discontinued" for wind generation. Technology-neutral competitive tendering will be pursued for that aim between 2018 and 2020. In 2018,2020 and 2021