The StartSun (Start-ups for Solar Energy Communities) project has published a Sustainability Plan for Energy Community in Terraced Housing Company. This document complements the previously released Start-up Package (in Finnish) and offers perspectives on the long-term development of energy communities. While the Start-up Packge focused on supporting the establishment and planning of energy [...]
As part of the Enercracy project, the Green Net Finland team headed for an inspiring study trip to the municipality of Dobele and the Zemgale region of Latvia. Together with our project partners from Estonia, Sweden and Poland, we were able to witness how close local cooperation and innovative solutions can accelerate the [...]
Background Pornainen, a municipality of about 5,000 residents in Uusimaa, Finland, needed support in drafting a climate and energy plan. The Enercracy project and Green Net Finland, a Finnish cleantech company, responded to this need. To ensure the energy and climate plan had a strong factual basis, Green Net Finland began by assessing the municipality’s current [...]
Green Net Finland, together with the Council of Tampere Region have organized two interactive information exchange webinars between energy community projects in 2026. The Council of Tampere Region began organizing the cooperation in 2025, when the first information exchange webinar was held. The projects have promoted the message of energy communities by producing [...]
The final year of the StartSun project is currently underway and now is a good time to reflect on the entire life cycle of the pilot projects. In each partner country, piloting of energy communities was carried out and a solar power feasibility calculator was developed, and their progress and challenges were discussed [...]
The Tokyo mission organized by Green Net Finland and Tehnopolis is currently underway. A total of nine organizations are participating. We have introduced the companies and organizations from Finland in this article. The goal of the mission is to generate new business or cooperation agreements for the participating organizations. In addition to Green [...]
Participants of the Partner Meeting. Photo by Elis Vollmer Startsun consortium in Helsinki meeting On November 5–6, 2025, the StartSun partners gathered in Helsinki for an inspiring meeting and study visit hosted by Green Net Finland (GNF). This event marked the beginning of the project’s final year and set the tone for ambitious goals [...]
Inspiration Station: Driving Change through Stakeholder Cooperation for Green Futures REGISTRATION FOR THE EVENT HAS CLOSED, THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! In the second instalment of the 'Inspiration Station' series webinar, we will dive headfirst into stakeholder cooperation as the root for successful decarbonisation on the municipal level. Based on concrete examples from [...]
On November 20, 2025, Business Turku’s Energiaverkosto (Energy Network) organized a full-day visit to the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. The trip opened our eyes to how innovative the nuclear industry in Finland truly is. Early in the morning, a busload of participants departed from Turku towards Olkiluoto. We were welcomed by Senior Vice [...]
As part of the Enercracy project, Green Net Finland participated in a study visit to Blekinge, Sweden, organized by the Municipality of Karlskrona and Energikontor Syd, the Energy Agency for Southern Sweden, together with partners from Estonia, Latvia and Poland. The visit, organized on October 23, 2025, showed how local cooperation between different [...]
