The Finnish national government established an Energy Efficiency Committee which proposed several recommendations that would save large amounts of energy through increased efficiency. In total the amount of energy saved would be 11.4% by 2020 and amount 37 terrawatt hours.

From the report - “Determined energy saving and energy efficiency measures can achieve savings of 37 terawatt hours in final energy consumption by 2020. This can be achieved through 125 measures that the Energy Efficiency Committee, established by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, submitted to Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister of Economic Affairs, on 9 June 2009. Proposals in the Committee report cover all sectors of society, from trade and industry to private consumption.”