"Important results have already been achieved in increasing the efficiency of energy use. The government will intensify these efforts by introducing new energy conservation measures," the administration stated in a new energy and environmental strategy report.

"The long-term goal in energy conservation is to halt the growth of total primary energy consumption and to bring about a falling trend," it said.

The report, which also calls for a 40 percent hike in green energy use by 2025, comes just weeks after Finland began building its fifth nuclear power plant, which is scheduled to go into production in 2009.

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