Robin Whitlock’s  article on the Renewable Energy Magazine website provides a reminder of the opportunity for participation in the Helsinki Energy Challenge where they are seeking new innovative solutions to create a carbon-neutral solution for urban heating.

The Helsinki Energy Challenge has been set up to find innovative new solutions to urban heating that go beyond burning fossil fuels and biomass to help the city meet its ambitious goal to be carbon-neutral by 2035.

Entries to the Helsinki Energy Challenge, a global one-million-euro challenge competition to find a carbon-neutral solution for urban heating, close at 16:00 EET on 30 September 2020. To date the Challenge has attracted entries from over 13 countries, including Canada, Austria and Portugal, in addition to Finland, with entrants from over 50 countries expressing interest.

Cities have a key role in driving the shift to a low-carbon economy and Helsinki has a stated goal of becoming free of coal by 2029, and carbon-neutral by 2035. Currently, more than half of the city’s heat is produced with coal. In order to achieve carbon-neutrality, Helsinki is seeking radically new solutions to meet demand for heating homes in the variable Nordic climate.

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