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EnergiaForum 10 and Energia 10 - main event for energy industry

EnergiaForum 10
Press Release 
May 5, 2010

EnergiaForum 10 and Energia 10
- main event for energy industry
taking place in October in Tampere, Finland

Climate sensitive energy solutions

EnergiaForum, Finland’s largest and most important professional event in the energy sector will be arranged for the 11th time in October 2010 in Tampere. The energy industry faces challenges but also expanding market opportunities. Prospects for development in the energy industry are tremendous and new innovations are continuously developed. The forms of application of bioenergy, for example, will increase significantly in the future.

The background for the growth of the bioenergy sector is laid by the EU targets according to which 38% of Finland’s end use energy consumption must be covered by renewable energy by 2020. Biofuels will have a central role in achieving these targets. Finland is a large bioenergy user and has strong knowhow in this sector. The Finnish boiler engineering industry, for example, utilizes bioenergy and has reached a good market position in the world.

Global markets for new bioenergy products

Until now bioenergy has been used at a relatively low efficiency. In the forest industry it has been considered mainly a secondary material flow that needs to be eliminated. However, according to Risto Raiko, professor of the department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Tampere University of Technology, new bioenergy applications will rapidly increase along with the Biofinery concept. Thanks to new innovations, finite sources of bioenergy can be utilized at maximum efficiency.

– The forest industry has a central role as a processor of bioenergy. In the future, the forest industry will process bioenergy to create new products, such as fuel and raw materials of the pharmaceutical and plastic industries. The value of these new products is much higher than that of traditional pulp or paper. Thus the forest industry will improve its productivity and achieves new competitive advantages in the global market.

Finland has strong bioenergy knowhow

The demand for ecological production and products increases at fast pace since the global market wants non-oil based raw materials. Finland needs to carry out continuous development in order to utilize bioenergy in a versatile way. Extensive projects are continuously going on supported by Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) for the development of biofuels. The Tampere University of Technology is strongly involved in bioenergy research.

 – For example, we have valuable cooperation with Stanford University. In USA, bioenergy is only just being introduced and the Finnish bioenergy and combustion research is very highly valued there. We have exchanged research personnel with Stanford University and already six of our people have had an opportunity to work there.

Extensive review of topical energy themes

Wind power and many other topical energy themes are discussed at the Energia 10 – Energy Fair. The event gives an excellent opportunity to network with the professionals of the industry, get acquainted with new technologies and find partners for improving energy-efficiency and productivity.

– Based on the registrations received so far, the tradefair hall will be filled to capacity by the exhibitor companies, tells Nina Nurminen, a project manager responsible for the tradefair sales.

Energy market, nuclear power, EcoCity, sustainable city and energy infrastructure development

This year the main themes include the energy market, production and distribution, power plant systems and equipment, automation, engineering and building, and operation and maintenance of power plants. Topical themes include renewable energy forms and new energy innovations, nuclear power, energy-efficiency, use of waste as a source of energy, carbon dioxide recovery and storing, and the new EcoCity theme presenting solutions for intelligent, sustainable city and energy infrastructure development.

EnergiaForum 10 gathers energy professionals under one roof

The Energia 10 tradefair is a part of a large cluster of events called EnergiaForum 10. Besides the tradefair, EnergiaForum includes the traditional Energy Day and Energy Congress including various seminars and information sessions. The closing celebration of Energy Day, the traditional dinner on October 26, gathers together the management, decision makers, professionals and other influential people in the energy industry. On the days to follow, the Energy Congress with almost 50 expert presentations continues the discussion on the energy market, sources of renewable energy, nuclear power, power plant technology and condition monitoring, and the technologies of the field. A novelty in this year is a seminar dealing with wind power.

The tradefair is organized by Expomark Oy. The organizers of the training events are the Energiafoorumi (Energy Forum of Finland), the Finnish Maintenance Society Promaint, KP-Media Oy, Energiateollisuus ry (Finnish Energy Industries), FORATOM and Pöyry Finland Oy.

Further information:

www.energiaforum.com/
www.energiafair.fi/
www.energiafoorumi.fi/
www.promaint.net/

EnergiaForum 10:

Pekka Tiusanen, Communication Manager
Finnish Energy Industries (Energiateollisuus ry/Finsk Energiindustri rf)
Mobile +358 50 5521 347
pekka.tiusanen(at)energia.fi
 
Tomi Niemi, Managing Director
Expomark Oy
Mobile +358 40 765 6248
tomi.niemi(at)expomark.fi

Energia 10 Tradefair:

Nina Nurminen, Project Manager, Sales
Expomark Oy
Tel. +358 10 830 0803
nina.nurminen (at) expomark.fi

Energy Day and Energy Congress:

Matti Niemelä
KP-Media Oy
Tel. +358 9 150 9455
matti.niemela(at)kunnossapito.fi