This was presented during a breakfast meeting in Piteå recently by project leader Anna Mård of Daniel Solander Energy Arena.”The city of Piteå has had a tremendous development in the energy sector in recent years. Now we are gathering our forces and gearing up further more by the establishment of an energy center and network, where knowledge, companies and research come together and act in a common environment to develop innovations within the renewable energy sector,” said Anna Mård.The work to build up the organization is in progress, and the center is expected to open its doors soon.Activities at Daniel Solander Energy Arena include for example to be a meeting place, to market energy initiatives and successes of the region, to develop and support multidisciplinary collaborative projects with the actors, and to act as brokers between the players.The different areas of activity within Daniel Solander Energy Arena is bioenergy, biomaterials, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable transport and fuels.Among major existing actors in Piteå within renewable energy are Chemrec, which has a pilot plant for black liqour gasification at Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner mill, and Sunpine AB, which started production of biodiesel from tall oil two years ago at its plant at Haraholmen in Piteå.