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SINTEF Energy Research has now begun using Norway’s brand-new supercomputer, Olivia, and the first results show a leap forward in hydropower planning.

Norwegian hydropower provides stability in the power market, but a more even power consumption in Norwegian building stock could have an impact on the electricity production of hydropower, a new SINTEF study shows.

That is the message from Atle Harby, senior researcher at SINTEF. He is a member of the expert committee tasked with looking at the socio-economic consequences of climate change.

A cure for global warming: Technologies exist that can get us out of this mess. Let’s take a look at them.

Data collection has now started at two Norwegian rivers to find out how to improve both power generation and environmental conditions

Rainfall patterns, runoff, and temperature conditions also change when the climate changes. This creates both new challenges and opportunities for Norwegian hydropower.

Changes to the climate, the energy situation, and the market have resulted in a need for higher standards for effective modelling tools that can be effectively utilised by hydropower producers and other stakeholders in the power market.

The smarter utilisation of Norwegian hydropower will promote nature conservation, improve access to energy and boost earnings.

SINTEF researcher Marcell Szabo-Meszaros is the man behind the international study ‘Hydropower and Fish – a Roadmap for Best Practice Management’, which offers guidelines on fish population protection in rivers to companies carrying out hydropower...

Scientists from SINTEF are launching a new wiki-website that lists tools and measures available to make hydropower more fish-friendly. The project draws on the concept of environmental design, which integrates technical, economic, environmental and...

Nils Røkke is the Chairman of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). This is his opening speech for the EERA 10-year anniversary. Last year, when we started to think about the EERA 10-year anniversary, the first question was whether to have...

SINTEF’s climate change ambassador Nils Røkke is on his way to Brussels looking forward to a new job and new assignments. He has been appointed as Chair of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). This in a world in which the threats posed by...

When hydropower reservoirs traps organic matter, it leads to higher local greenhouse gas emissions. But the emissions are not increased but displaced. A new tool calculates the real greenhouse gas footprints of reservoirs.

For the first time, a major European research infrastructure project is being led by a country from outside the EU.

Nils Røkke, Director of Sustainability at SINTEF, is the new Chairman of the European Energy Research Alliance.