EnergyVaasa, the largest energy cluster in the Nordic countries, chose
the 25 year old, engineering student Pentti Itkonen as the Energy Ambassador.
In a press conference held on
18th October at Citec’s premises at Navi Mumbai, Pentti Itkonen
spoke about his interesting global journey from Kittilä in Northern Finland to
Norway, USA, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, Thailand and India. Pentii is spending a
week at each of the chosen countries thereby meeting and influencing the key
stakeholders of renewable and green technologies.
India
was selected of all the locations Citec had on offer for the Energy
Ambassador’s visit. This was a natural choice, as Citec started up operations
in India almost 10 years ago and currently employs almost 400 in India, with
offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. This makes India the second largest
Citec company in terms of amount of employees.
In
this journey, Pentii Itkonen could experience a project where experts from
many countries work together to come up with the best solutions to the
customer’s needs. Thus, Itkonen became specifically more acquainted with one of
Waste-to-Energy power plant projects designed by Citec. In this
project, the customer is from Switzerland and the plant is built
in the UK.
Pentti Itkonen comments: “It’s amazing to be in Incredible
India, I have to admit that this has probably been the destination I’ve
been looking forward to the most. The people at Mumbai office have welcomed me
with fascinating Hindu ceremonies and I was honoured to start off my week like
that. It was interesting to discover how Citec is working globally and
specially the Indian operations. We also discussed over a certain
waste-to-energy project.”
One
of the highlights of Itkonen’s visit was on October 16th, when Mr. Alexander
Stubb, Finland’s Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade met with
Citec’s senior management – Mr. Martin Strand, CEO, Mr, Nasir Mulani, Managing
Director India, Mr Arun Tyagarajan, Director Citec India and the Energy
Ambassador in Mumbai.
The
same day, a business delegation organised by Finpro visited Citec at Mumbai,
which included top level company representatives from Indo-Finnish companies.
Citec presented the company’s competence, its global offering as well as its
top-class industry references.
“In
an agro-based country like India, Bio-power has a growing demand. Nevertheless,
solar and wind power are also areas where the future is heading towards. Citec
is also working on such projects. Aiming for a cleaner environment, we
are proud to support the Energy Ambassador campaign”, says Mr. Nasir Mulani.
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