Award for Pori’s Investments

Pori has been awarded for its local green transition investments at the final conference of the European Commission’s Intelligent Cities Challenge 2.0 (ICC) program in Brussels!

The goal of the ICC program has been to develop innovative solutions to promote the green and digital transition. In the program, Pori presented three Local Green Deals to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050: the Pori Offshore Wind Center, the household biowaste collection program Keräämö-Gasum, and the green transition development program by Fortum and the City of Pori in Tahkoluoto.

At the final conference of the program, Pori was awarded for the significance of its green transition investments and its long-term commitment to the ICC project.

More information about the projects can be found in the news section of the businesspori.fi website.

Offshore Wind Center:
https://www.businesspori.fi/news/pori-offshore-wind-hub-and-tahkoluoto-offshore-sign-memorandum-of-understanding-on-collaboration/15/01/2025/
https://www.businesspori.fi/news/pori-and-raahe-reach-agreement-on-offshore-wind-hub-and-port-development-cooperation/29/04/2024/
https://www.businesspori.fi/news/general-en/pori-is-building-a-competitive-advantage-from-offshore-wind-power/20/06/2023/

The green transition development program:
https://www.businesspori.fi/news/the-development-agreement-keeps-tahkoluoto-at-the-forefront-of-the-clean-transition/04/04/2024/

The household biowaste collection program:
Keräämö and Gasum Oy have made an agreement on the processing of biowaste. The biowaste will be transported to Gasum’s Honkajoki plant, where it will be converted into biogas for industry and fertilizers for agriculture. In the biogas plant’s process, the biowaste is crushed and liquefied before being directed to the digestion reactors. The annual amount of biowaste in the Keräämö area is estimated to be around 4,000–4,500 tons.