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Eesti Küttejõud
Company typePrivate limited company
IndustryMining
Founded1922
FounderUnion of Estonian Industrialists
Defunct1940
FateNationalized
Headquarters
Küttejõu
,
Estonia
Key people
Emil Kuhi (Chairman)
ProductsOil shale
Production output
126,238 tonnes of oil shale (1939)
OwnerPõhja paberi- ja puupapivabrik
Number of employees
250

AS Eesti Küttejõud (also: AS Eesti Kütte-Jõud; commonly: Küttejõud; literally: Estonian Heating Power) was an oil shale company located in Küttejõu, Estonia. The Küttejõu township, now district of Kiviõli, is named after the company.

Eesti Küttejõud was established in 1922 by the Union of Estonian Industrialists. It was as the first private oil shale mining company. In 1925, the Tallinn pulp factory Põhja paberi- ja puupapivabrik (Template:Lang-en) acquired the company.[1] At the same year, the Küttejõu open-pit mine was opened.[2] Unlike other that time oil shale companies in Estonia, it did not have any shale oil extraction but only mining operations.[1] It sold mined oil shale directly for heating fuel to the paper mill and power plants.[3]

In 1939, the company produced 126,238 tonnes of oil shale.[4] After occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union, the company was nationalized in 1940.[5]

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References

  1. ^ a b Holmberg (2008), p. 105
  2. ^ Ots (2004), pp. 15–16
  3. ^ EPA (1979), p. 4-183
  4. ^ Holmberg (2008), p. 344
  5. ^ Holmberg (2008), p. 129

Bibliography

  • EPA Oil Shale Research Group (1979). EPA program status report, oil shale. Interagency energy-environment research and development program report.
  • Holmberg, Rurik (2008). Survival of the Unfit. Path Dependence and the Estonian Oil Shale Industry (PDF). Linköping Studies in Arts and Science. Vol. 427. Linköping University.
  • Ots, Arvo (2006) [2004]. Toni Tyson; Mary McQuillen (eds.). Oil Shale Fuel Combustion. Tallinn: Arv Ots; Eesti Energia. ISBN 978-9949-13-710-7.
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