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Portland General Electric

Portland General Electric (PGE) is an investor-owned electric utility headquartered in Portland, Oregon, serving about 960,000 retail customers and ranking as Oregon's largest electricity supplier.

Portland International Airport

Portland International Airport (PDX) is the main commercial airport of Portland, Oregon, about 4 miles northeast of downtown and owned and operated by the Port of Portland.

Portland International Airport carpet

The Portland International Airport carpet, known as the PDX carpet, is a teal geometric carpet designed by SRG Partnership and installed in 1987, which became a social media phenomenon and was reinstalled in the 2024 terminal.

Portland International Jetport

Portland International Jetport, also known as Portland Jetport, is a public airport west of Portland, Maine, owned by the city and serving a record 2.6 million passengers in 2025.

Portland Pipe Line

Portland Pipe Line Corporation, owned by Suncor Energy, operates the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, a 236-mile crude oil pipeline built in 1941 from South Portland, Maine, to refineries in Montreal, Quebec.

Portland Streetcar

The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system serving central Portland, Oregon, owned by the city and opened in 2001 as the first modern-era streetcar system in the United States.

Portland-class cruiser

The Portland-class cruiser was a class of two US Navy heavy cruisers, USS Portland and USS Indianapolis, built in 1930-1933 under the Washington Naval Treaty.

Porto Airport

Porto Airport, formally Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, is Portugal's second-busiest airport, serving Porto and northern Portugal from 11 km northwest of the city center; it handled a record 16.9 million passengers in 2025.

Porto City Hall

Porto City Hall, known in Portuguese as Câmara Municipal do Porto or Paços do Concelho, is the seat of Porto's municipal government, standing atop Avenida dos Aliados and inaugurated in 1957.

Porto de Sergipe power station

The Porto de Sergipe power station, Porto de Sergipe I, is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Barra dos Coqueiros, Sergipe, Brazil, with about 1.5 GW of capacity.

Porto do Açu FSRU

The Porto do Açu FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit serving an LNG import terminal at the Port of Açu in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.

Porto do Pecém power station

The Porto do Pecém power station is a coal-fired power complex at the Port of Pecém in Ceará, Brazil, with two plants totaling 1,085 MW.

Porto Garibaldi-Agostino Gas Field

Porto Garibaldi-Agostino is an offshore natural gas field in the northern Adriatic off Ravenna, Italy, operated by Eni, on stream since 1970 and slated for conversion to CO2 storage.

Porto Primavera hydroelectric plant

The Porto Primavera hydroelectric plant, formally the Engenheiro Sérgio Motta plant, is a 1,540 MW run-of-river station on the Paraná River at Rosana, São Paulo, with Brazil's longest dam.

Porton Down

Porton Down is a UK government defense research site in Wiltshire, England, established in March 1916 for chemical warfare work and now home to Dstl.

Portovaya LNG Terminal

Portovaya LNG Terminal (КСПГ Портовая) is a Gazprom-owned liquefied natural gas export plant on the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg, Russia, which began production in 2022 with a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year.

Ports America

Ports America is an American marine terminal operator and stevedoring company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, handling cargo at ports on all three U.S. coasts.

Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant

The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, known locally as the A-Plant, is a former United States uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio, operating from 1954 until 2001.

Portuguese fort at Ternate

The Portuguese fort at Ternate, the Fortaleza de São João Baptista, was a fortress built on Ternate in 1522 and captured by the Sultan in 1575.

Portworx

Portworx is a Kubernetes data services and cloud-native storage platform founded in 2014 in Los Altos, California, acquired by Pure Storage in 2020 for about $370 million.

Porvoo refinery

The Porvoo refinery is an oil refinery in Kilpilahti, Porvoo, Finland, owned by Neste and Finland's only crude oil refinery since the Naantali refinery closed in 2021.

POSCO (포스코)

POSCO (포스코) is a South Korean steelmaker founded in 1968 as Pohang Iron and Steel Company, headquartered in Seoul and Pohang with works at Pohang and Gwangyang.

POSCO ENERGY

POSCO ENERGY (포스코에너지) was the energy subsidiary of South Korea's POSCO Group. Founded in 1969, it worked in power generation, fuel cells, and LNG before merging into POSCO International in 2023.

POSCO Future M

POSCO Future M (포스코퓨처엠), formerly POSCO Chemical, is a South Korean manufacturer of cathode and anode materials for rechargeable batteries and the only company in Korea producing both.

POSCO Incheon power station

POSCO Incheon power station, also known as the Incheon LNG Combined Cycle Power Plant, is a 3,412 MW LNG-fired power station in Incheon, South Korea.

Posco International

Posco International (포스코인터내셔널) is a South Korean trading and energy company headquartered in Incheon, a POSCO Group affiliate founded in 1967 as Daewoo Industry and renamed in 2019.

Pose estimation (computer vision)

Pose estimation in computer vision is the task of determining from images the position and orientation of objects, cameras, or human bodies, supporting robotics, augmented reality, and motion capture.

Pose graph optimization

Pose graph optimization is a nonlinear least-squares back-end for SLAM that estimates a robot's trajectory from relative-pose constraints, serving as the standard global correction step after loop closure.

Poseidon Principles

The Poseidon Principles are a framework launched in 2019 in New York under which signatory banks annually measure and disclose the climate alignment of their ship finance portfolios against IMO decarbonization trajectories.

Posey and Webster Street Tubes

The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are a pair of immersed vehicular tunnels carrying State Route 260 beneath the Oakland Estuary, linking Alameda with Oakland, California.