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Global Aquatech Summit

15 February 2019

The young and growing aquaculture industry is in rapid development. World Resource Institute has estimated that the production must be doubled from the 65-70 million metric tons today, to 160 million metric tons by 2050. This to keep up with the demand for fish from an increasing population, up to 10 billion people at that time.

How to cut emissions and save on transmission costs

05 February 2019

Even Norway, which already heats with green energy sources, could contribute more to shrinking Europe's CO2 emissions. Building zero emission neighbourhoods would also help lower rising electrical transmission fees.

Better fish welfare using “sensor” fish

04 February 2019

The electronic "sensor” fish measures the physical factors that affect farmed fish during delousing. The results may lead to welfare improvements in salmon farm cages.
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FME Innovation Task Force – 5 recommendations for more innovation in energy research

14 February 2019

The concept of “saving the world” has become part of our everyday challenge. We are continually reminded by scenarios and reports on climate…

How to estimate flexibility potential of household appliances? (To reduce peak load)

13 February 2019

Due to the ageing distribution network infrastructure, the increasing integration of renewable energy generation and the increasing customer load demand, the need for…

Preliminary results show that machine learning can predict faults and disturbances in the power system

12 February 2019

In the EarlyWarn project, predictive models (using big data, machine learning and domain knowledge) are being developed based on historic power quality data.  Preliminary results…
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