Eesti Küttejõud

Eesti Küttejõud
Private limited company
Industry Mining
Fate Nationalized
Founded 1922
Founder Union of Estonian Industrialists
Defunct 1940
Headquarters Küttejõu, Estonia
Key people
 Emil Kuhi (Chairman)
Products Oil shale
Production output
 126,238 tonnes of oil shale (1939)
Owner Põhja 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 (English: Nordic Paper and Woodboard Mill) 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. 1 2 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

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