SINTEF contributes to a reliable, environmentally friendly and cost-effective energy system
Our research is developing the future's system solutions for hydropower, wind power and the power grid at the Norwegian, Nordic and European level –including in production planning, the development of offshore wind power and smart grids. We conduct internationally leading research that covers the entire energy chain, from production through storage and distribution, to end-use and environmental impacts.
- Solving the climate crisis will require extensive international collaboration between businesses, governments and the scientific community. This is why SINTEF will increase its participation in the UN Climate Change Conference this year, says SINTEF CEO Alexandra Bech Gjørv.
STAVANGER – The Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, Iselin Nybø, announced today that the Ocean Grid project (in Norwegian: Havnett) will get financial support of 82.7 million NOK, through the Green Platform scheme.
Researchers have studied the energy consumption of 140 hotels in Norway and Sweden. The use of CO2 heat pumps could cut energy consumption in these hotels by about 60 per cent.
In this knowledge-building project for industry, we develop sustainable solutions for ports as energy hubs, contributing to Norway's transition to a zero-emission society.
The increasing market of the electric vehicles and the growing importance of renewable energy sources calls for next generation high efficiency batteries.
With ZeroKyst, we will strengthen Norwegian value creation and export through green growth. The project will demonstrate that both new and existing vessels in the seafood industry can be emission free and contribute to decreasing emissions from fishery and aquaculture vessels by 50% before 2030.
PRESAV will develop various predictive control strategies for active heat storage accounting for electricity price, district heating price, weather forecast (especially solar irradiance and outdoor temperature) and local heat demand in buildings with installed photovoltaic systems and active heat storage.
This laboratory will be used both in research and development to identify and improve manufacturing unit properties during network failures.
This low temperature hydrogen laboratory is one of the most complete and advanced laboratories for electrolyser and fuel cell testing in Scandinavia, offering testing capabilities from R&D-scale single cell testing up to kW-scale short stack testing. The laboratory is operated by the New Energy solution group in SINTEF Industri, shared with NTNU, and is one of the nodes of the Norwegian Fuel cell and Hydrogen Centre.
– a vital tool for energy research in Norway
NTNU and SINTEF have built a new National Smart Grid Laboratory in Trondheim with funding from the Research Council of Norway in cooperation with the Artic University of Norway and Smart Innovation Østfold.
EMPS (EFI's Multi-area Power-market Simulator) is a tool for forecasting and planning in electricity markets. It has been developed for optimization and simulation of hydrothermal power systems with a considerable share of hydro power. It takes into account transmission constraints and hydrological differences between major areas or regional subsystems.
EOPS (One-area Power-market Simulator) is a model especially suited for long and medium term scheduling or expansion planning in hydropower dominated areas, where:
Graphical user interface for generating FDpi models of HVDC cables
A method to generate hourly time series for wind power and solar power production for a number specified locations, covering the 65 year time period from 1950 to 2014.