Etteplan and Fortum Hydro to deepen partnership and sign a new agreement

Etteplan Web news March 11, 2020

Having collaborated since 2014, Etteplan and Fortum Hydro have signed a new extended agreement in the area of asset documentation. The objective of the new agreement is to maintain the competence that Etteplan has built up at Fortum Hydro through its projects and to continue improving efficiency and quality within asset documentation.

“We are delighted that Fortum Hydro has continued confidence in us and that we have the opportunity to develop our cooperation further together, ” says Sixten Folke, Business Unit Director, Technical Documentation Solutions, Sweden, Etteplan.

In the energy sector, good management and documentation of real estate and plant information plays a key role.

“It is of the utmost importance for Fortum Hydro’s business that all information on the company’s 120 hydropower plants is up-to-date, easy to find and corresponds to physical power plants. For the purpose of automating information management and proactive maintenance, we have already started working together on areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, says Sixten Folke.

By working closely as partners, the goal is to provide and ensure the availability, reliability and accuracy of Fortum Hydro’s asset documentation. The partnership entails that both parties take equal responsibility to contribute to each other’s success and to deliver the greatest possible value to Fortum Hydro through development of the entire documentation function.

The agreement involves Etteplan delivering Fortum Hydro with services in the areas of asset documentation, project documentation and real estate documentation.

Etteplan’s and Fortum Hydro’s collaboration also involves a larger development project with the key focus on digitalization, centralization and development of structures and ways of working. Etteplan has, for example:

For more information, please contact:
Sixten Folke, Business Unit Director, Technical Documentation Solutions, Sweden, tel. +46 730 78 09 10
Outi Torniainen, SVP, Marketing & Communications, tel. +358 10 307 3302       

Fortum in brief
Fortum is a leading clean-energy company that provides its customers with electricity, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency. We want to engage our customers and society to join the change for a cleaner world. We employ some 8, 000 professionals in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, Poland and India. In 2019, our sales were EUR 5.4 billion and 59% of our electricity generation was CO2 free. Fortum’s share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. www.fortum.com