Inventories
| 4.6 Inventories | ||
| Fingrid prepares for outages by maintaining reserve power plants. The inventories contain fuel for reserve power plants, spare parts for submarine cables, back-up equipment and parts for substations, and repair equipment for transmission lines. The aim of stockpiling is to achieve sufficient preparedness in case of faults and events possibly occurring during times of crisis at the substations and on the transmission lines owned by Fingrid. | ||
| 8. INVENTORIES, €1,000 | 2017 | 2016 |
| Materials and consumables at 1 Jan | ||
| Material stocks | 6,836 | 6,144 |
| Fuel stocks | 6,412 | 5,995 |
| Work in progress | 281 | 131 |
| Total | 13,529 | 12,269 |
| The use of inventories was entered as an expense of EUR 2.6 (2.1) million. | ||
Accounting principles
Inventories
Inventories are measured at the lower of acquisition cost or net realisable value. The acquisition cost is determined using the FIFO principle. The net realisable value is the estimated market price in normal business reduced by the estimated future costs of completing and estimated costs required by sale. Inventories consist of material and fuel inventories.
