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☆ Finns could be paid to use electricity tomorrow after a massive energy trade screw up
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

This mistake drove Friday electricity prices down to negative €203 per megawatt-hour. Finns could actually be paid to use electricity on Friday because of the extremely low prices. AdvertisementA jaw-dropping blunder in Finland's electricity market temporarily sent prices into chaos today — and could result in Finns actually being paid to use electricity. As a result, the price of electricity plummeted to negative €203 per megawatt-hour on Nord Pool, the Nordic region's electricity exchange. AdvertisementTheoretically, this could mean some Finns would be paid to consume cheap electricity.

Persons: —, Pontus de Mare, Fingrid, Jäppinen Organizations: Service, Kinect Energy, Svenska, Bloomberg News, day's, Finns, Finnish, Helsingin Sanomat Locations: Finnish, Finns, Finland, Ukraine

☆ Finnish government to hold news conference on suspected pipeline leak -media
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

OSLO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Finland's government plans to hold a news conference later on Tuesday regarding the sudden outage of a gas pipeline connecting Finland and Estonia, public broadcaster YLE and daily Helsingin Sanomat reported on Tuesday. The Finnish prime minister's office was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Reuters. The Balticconnector link was shut early on Sunday on concerns that gas was leaking from a hole in the 77-km (48 miles) pipeline. Finnish operator Gasgrid said it could take months or more to repair if a leak is confirmed. Reporting by Terje Solsvik in Oslo and Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm; editing by Gwladys FoucheOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gasgrid, Elering, Terje Solsvik, Anna Ringstrom, Gwladys Organizations: YLE, Helsingin Sanomat, Reuters, Thomson Locations: OSLO, Finland, Estonia, Estonian, Inkoo, Paldiski, of Finland, Baltic, St Petersburg, Oslo, Stockholm

☆ Helsinki deputy mayor caught graffitiing the city
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A deputy mayor in Helsinki is facing possible legal action after being caught spray-painting graffiti with a friend. Paavo Arhinmäki, deputy mayor responsible for culture and leisure in the Finnish capital, issued a statement Saturday admitting that he and a friend had been caught by security guards after painting inside a train tunnel leading to the city’s Vuosaari harbor. “Now there is still on-going police investigation for legal action and its consequences,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “The costs of cleaning up are collected from the perpetrators after the police investigation is done,” they added. Meanwhile, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat published a photo of the graffiti and tweeted about the incident.

Persons: CNN —, Paavo Arhinmäki, Arhinmäki Organizations: CNN, Helsingin Sanomat, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Eastern Uusimaa Police Department Locations: Helsinki, Helsingin, Pasila, Arhinmäki

☆ Finnish daily uses shooter videogame to dodge Russia's press restrictions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Anne Kauranen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat Editor-in-Chief Antero Mukka presents a secret room within Counter-Strike video game, where his paper has hidden news about Russia?s war in Ukraine in Russian, in Helsinki, Finland May 2, 2023. REUTERS/Anne KauranenHELSINKI, May 3 (Reuters) - Finland's largest daily Helsingin Sanomat on Wednesday took its struggle against Russian media restrictions to a popular online videogame to mark world press freedom day. In response to Moscow's laws restricting press freedom in Russia, Helsingin Sanomat began publishing some of its Ukraine and Russia related news in Russian last year, only to see access from Russia to its content quickly restricted. The map conceals a secret room where the paper hid images and texts detailing the cruelties witnessed by its reporters and photographers in Ukraine during the war. Reporting by Anne Kauranen, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Gamers are using a secret level to dodge Russian censorship and share news about the war in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gamers are using a secret room in "CS:GO" to share news about the Ukraine war with Russian players. A Finish newspaper designed the room to bypass Russian censorship and get the news to citizens. Players can find the secret room and read information about Russia's shocking war crimes and high casualties in the ongoing conflict. A map shows Russia's civilian targets in the war, mass graves in Bucha and Irpin, 70,000 Russian deaths in the war so far, and more. They wrote that while "Countless Russians are unaware of what is happening in Ukraine," the secret room is where "they are forced to see the truth with their own eyes."

☆ These apps are trying to put car dealers out of business
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-15 | by ( Nell Lewis | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

London (CNN Business) City dwellers are used to switching between apps to decide the best way to get from A to B. "Whim's sole purpose is to compete against car ownership," CEO Sampo Hietanen tells CNN Business. If Whim can persuade users to trade their car keys for a single app offering multiple transport options, the environmental impact could be enormous, says Hietanen. The ticket also offers car rental from €55 ($65) per day. According to Whim, public transport and micromobility are the most popular ways to travel using the app.

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