Organizers of the FEI World Cup Jumping Show in Helsinki are using horse manure from its equine athletes to provide electricity for the event and to heat homes in the Finnish capital
- Horse power has a different meaning at the Helsinki International Horse Show as the electricity needs for the FEI World Cup Jumping qualifiers comes entirely from horse manure.
The event has generated its own electricity from manure — used to power lights, scoreboards and even charging stations — for the fifth year in a row thanks to a manure-to-energy system developed by the aptly named Fortum HorsePower. “ has shown that out-of-the-box solutions are needed if we are to move away from our reliance on fossil fuels.
Since the system was installed in 2015, around 70,000 tons of manure have been collected, providing heat to 1,250 customers and electricity to the national power grid.
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