HelgelandsKraft

AS Helgelandskraft
Municipal owned
Industry Power
Founded 1964
Headquarters Mosjøen, Norway
Area served
 Helgeland
Key people
 Ove Arnstein Brattbakk (CEO)
Nils Magnar Johnsen (Chair)
Products Hydroelectricity
District heating
Revenue Increase NOK 1,074 million (2006)
NOK 263 million (2006)
NOK 151 million (2006)
Number of employees
 237 (2006)
Parent 14 municipalities
Website www.helgkraft.no

HelgelandsKraft is a power company that serves Helgeland in Norway. It owns eight hydro electric Power Plants with average annual production of 678 GWh as well as the power grid in the fourteen municipalities of Helgeland, that also own the company. It also operates district heating in Mo i Rana and a private equity company.

The company is owned by the municipalities of Alstahaug (10,1%), Brønnøy (9,6%), Dønna (4,4%), Grane (2,5%), Hattfjelldal (2,5%), Hemnes (7,0%), Herøy (3,8%), Leirfjord (3,2%), Nesna (4,6%), Rana (26,8%), Sømna (3,2%), Vefsn (18,3%), Vega (2,8%) and Vevelstad (1,2%).

History

The companies roots date back to 1895 when Båsmo Gruber installed the district's first electric generator. In 1907 the first hydroelectric power plant was built in Helgeland, at Revelfossen in Tverråga. Through a number of mergers between the various municipal power companies AL Helgeland Kraftlag was created in 1964. Because of new regulations in the 1990s it was transformed to a limited company.

Power plants

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