There Corporation’s seminar was a big success
There Corporation arranged a seminar “Smarter use of energy through innovations” in Helsinki concentrating on smarter use of energy on 10th of September. Four leading Finnish companies and institutions – Nokia, Fortum, Ensto and Technopolis – gave their views on the hot topic. There Corporation, a spin-off from Nokia, with top expertise from the Vaasa energy cluster, was also introduced in the seminar together with the company’s funding. The seminar audience was limited to one hundred due to the size of the auditorium and it was jam packed to the limit.
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Kaj Rönnlund, CEO of There Corporation, sees the combination of the mobile and platform technology know-how of the Nokia Smart Home team and the experience of energy grid and metering of the Comsel team as a unique and strong basis to start developing new generation energy solutions. “We are gate openers for our customers enhancing the value of their client offerings."
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“We are very happy with the progress of Innovation Mill,” stated Will Cardwell, Director of Technopolis Development Services. “We are at the rate of an average of one spinout per month, and we have a nice pipeline of new deals in the works. These new companies prove that Innovation Mill is a viable model, and we hope that more and more existing companies will also leverage Nokia’s non-core IPR through our Innovation Mill program.
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Kirsi Sormunen, Vice President of sustainability in Nokia, discussed about the enabling effect of ICT and mobile technology in reducing energy consumption. When it comes to energy efficiency, one of the most important things for Nokia is to make sustainable choices easy for consumers. For example, purchasing digital music reduces the energy and CO2 emissions of delivering music to consumers by 40- 80%.
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“As energy consumption is still quite far from the EU 20-20-20 target, new ways of energy efficiency solutions must be introduced to the consumers” said Vesa Koivisto, Business Development Manager of Fortum. Fortum’s goal is to bring access to real time consumption data which paves the way for new applications, such as plug-in electric cars and Dynamic pricing signals.
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Timo Luukkainen, President and CEO of Ensto, sees that there shouldn’t be any compromises when creating energy efficient ways to live – comfort should and can be improved. Buildings have a significant part in improving energy efficiency since they count for 40% of all energy usage.
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