I know that there are windfarms up in Lapland eg. One of the problems has been icing on the blades in winter - increasing weight and turbulence. But they have found a solution with teflon coating.
Another technology is ground heat pumps. There are lots of areas of geographical strata around the Baltic that make this practical. It's not deep down and can be done on a house by house basis. The 4-6 C you get from it doesn't seem much, but when it's -30 C outside, a 'basic' threshold heat means your full heating doesn't have so much work to do to keep at liveable temperatures. You can't be me, I'm taken
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The heat pump technology offers huge potential for housing at cold winter time. It is being rapidly taken into service in Sweden at at least.
I was visiting Iceland, doing an article on the experimental hydrogen station for fuel cell buses in Reykavik, where I was shown maps of the ground heating potential in Nordic area. I haven't seen much attention paid to it in Finnish MSM. You can't be me, I'm taken
