450 projects

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Safe handling of refrigerated pressurized ammonia

Ammonia (NH3) is projected to be an important part of the clean energy transition. Using ammonia large amounts of energy can be transported with relative ease. This makes it a strong candidate, e.g., for fueling ships and heavy transport. To make this possible, however, we need safe and efficient...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Clamping forces in transformers – Online monitoring and predictive modelling

Power transformers are an essential part of our electric power system. The transformer’s active part is the core and the windings, which consist of metal wires insulated with paper and pressboard. The paper, pressboard and an insulation liquid, often mineral oil, constitutes the transformers insu...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Optimal Utilization of Power components and Grids using Digital Twins

Electrification of society is ongoing at full strength across many sectors, increasing the pressure on the power grid. Energy companies and power grid owners indicate that the transmission capacity, as calculated today, is maxed out for parts of the grid, and there is an urgent need to increase t...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Next Generation of Enviromentally-Friendly Gas-Insulated Switchgear

During the green transition, distribution and transmission system operators (DSOs and TSOs) are intensively maintaining and expanding their grids to meet the increasing demand for electrical power. As an increasing number of utilities run on electric power, it is imperative to ensure security of ...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Bio&PlastiCCS: Co-gasification of residual waste (including biomass and plastic) feedstocks as a bioCCS pathway

Plastic waste is one of today’s fastest growing environmental challenges. A large share cannot be recycled and often ends up in landfills, incineration, or worse – polluting rivers and oceans. At the same time, the world needs to find new ways of producing clean energy and reducing carbon dioxide...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

KreDiT – Towards advanced monitoring and mitigation of stability issues in grids dominated by power electronic converters

KreDiT: Smarter Monitoring for a More Stable and Reliable Power Grid As the world moves toward cleaner energy, our power grids are changing fast. Solar panels, wind turbines, and long-distance electricity transmission using HVDC (high-voltage direct current) are becoming more common. These techno...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Optimizing industrial-scale blue H2 production with liquid CO2 capture enabling maritime logistics chains

The project HydroCCS will develop new knowledge and methods for the production of emission-free blue hydrogen (from natural gas) based on a novel carbon capture technology that captures CO2 in liquid form. This methodology can be combined directly with ship transport of CO2 under both current and...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Advancing Strategic Competence in Engineering and Numerical Techniques

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping how we tackle the world’s toughest energy problems. By combining physics-based modelling with the power of supercomputers, scientists can now test and refine breakthrough ideas before they ever reach the lab. In a new collaboration, Dr. ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Sustainable Criteria and Overall Renewable Evaluation for Offshore Wind Energy

Offshore wind is crucial for Europe’s green energy future. It can deliver large amounts of clean electricity, but offshore wind development also faces many challenges: protecting the marine environment, ensuring public acceptance, managing risks, and securing stable energy prices. Today, most off...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - eCO2 Industries - Towards Climate-Positive Industries

The industry sector accounted for over a quarter (9 GtCO2) of direct global CO2 emissions in 2022, and reducing these emissions is challenging. Two strategies have often been considered to ensure deep decarbonisation of industrial plants: 1) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) from process emissions...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Transforming the Norwegian Continental Shelf on the pathway towards net-zero global emissions

The petroleum activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) holds an exceptional position in the Norwegian economy with a share of 60% of Norway’s total export, 10% of the private workforce in employment (direct and indirect), 25% of the national tax income and 25% of Norway’s total greenhous...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Environmental impacts and mitigation measures for pumped storage hydropower in Norwegian reservoirs

Norway has several large hydropower reservoirs at different elevation separated by few km. This makes it not so complicated or costly to install pumped storage hydropower between such pairs of reservoirs. The future power system will be more dependent on weather conditions, impacting both generat...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sustainable Norwegian Data Center Industry

In our increasingly digitalised society, data centers are fundamental service providers for key sectors such as health care, energy and transport. Norway needs a robust digital infrastructure to function effectively and is well positioned for data center establishments due to cold climate and ava...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Utenlandsopphold ved University of Western Australia

Planen for oppholdet er å studere termo- og fluiddynamikk knyttet til CO2-transport-tanker. En målsetning ved oppholdet er å gjennomføre forsøk på oppsettet til University of Western Australia, for å sammenlikne med resultater fra forsøk gjennomført på NTNU/SINTEF. I parallell med den eksperiment...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Two-Phase Immersion Cooling with Integrated Heat Upgrade in Data Centers

CoolHeatDC is developing a smart and sustainable way to cool data centers — while also making use of the heat they produce. As data centers grow and use more energy, finding greener cooling solutions is becoming more important. This project aims to make cooling more efficient, reduce environmenta...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

WP1 – Managing Uncertainty in the Nordic Energy System

Research strategies and methods Part 1: General component Task 1.1 Literature Review Task 1.2 Interviews Task 1.3 Assessment of methods Research Question 1: What are the most important uncertainties and risks to consider for planning and investments in the Nordic energy system? Research Question...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Planning renewable solar energy systems combining technological and ecological assessments

PROTEA aims to develop methodologies and knowledge for early phase planning of solar energy projects that integrates ecological, economic, and societal metrics. Combining these in a balanced way is inherently challenging and requires multi-objective perspectives. Solar energy systems are more int...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA) - Executive Board Representation

The Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA) has been established to ensure both a focused development of battery technology to meet current demands with regard to competitiveness, sustainability and circularity, and the timely and effective up-take of these technology developments by th...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Improving energy production and safety in biocarbon value chains

The EnergyProSafe project responds to the national strategies on transition into a low-carbon-emission society and goals of the metallurgical industry by improving energy production and safety in BC value chains, securing safe and sustainable supply of BC of needed quality and in sufficient quant...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

ECCSEL-Enhancing Norwegian Capabilities

ECCSEL-ENC: Driving the Future of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) According to the EU Commission, between 300 and 640 million tonnes of carbon dioxide must be captured, utilized, or stored annually by 2050 to meet Europe's climate goals. Norway is at the forefront of CCS development with over 25...

Awarded: NOK 48.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FME InterPlay - Integrated Hub for Energy System Analyses

InterPlay aims to contribute to holistic and long-term planning of the energy system, in order to meet our climate goals while conserving nature and biodiversity. In order to prevent global warming, emissions must be reduced. Emissions reductions from sectors such as industry and transport requi...

Awarded: NOK 120.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - HVDC and Hybrid DC/AC Technologies for Reconfigurable Energy Islands

The ambitions of increasing the renewable energy production includes large planned development offshore. This leads to the need to address challenges related to the transmission of the energy to onshore and to the integration with the inland grid. Recent plans for construction of new energy islan...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Strategic leadership of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) JP CCS

During the last 10-12 years, SINTEF has prioritized being active and contributing to the European agenda setting processes for the development of policy and priorities for R&D&I at CCUS. Through this long-term commitment, SINTEF has become an important player in the European cooperation between a...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Strategic leadership of the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP)

The urgency to decarbonise the global economy is increasingly upon us. Limiting long-term temperature increases to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels was agreed upon by 196 countries in the Paris Agreement in 2015, a target strongly supported by world-leading organisations such as the UN’s I...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Deep integration between machine learning approaches and renewable energy optimization

Over the decades, numerous optimization models have been developed to maximize the use of limited resources in power systems. With the rapid advancement of machine learning (ML) technologies, integrating ML with these optimization models has emerged as a promising trend. Unlike traditional optimi...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Refurbishing buildings into systemic leverage points for clean energy transition

Heating and cooling correspond to roughly half of the final energy use in EU, and only 23 % of the heat supply is currently satisfied with renewable supply. The main solutions for decarbonizing heat supply are energy efficiency, heat pumps and district heating (DH) based on renewable and excess h...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Flexible latent thermal storage for reserve markets access of heating and cooling systems

The La-Flex project will further develop latent thermal energy storage (LTES) to make heating and cooling systems more energy flexible. Energy flexibility is the ability of the energy system to receive and deliver energy as it is produced and consumed. Fossil fuels and hydropower are flexible ene...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Transformer Liquid Dielectric Withstand Performance

Liquid-Filled Transformers – A Crucial Part of Safe and Efficient Power Supply Norway has around 3,000 large transformers, each filled with 5-80 tonnes of electrical insulating liquid. These are essential for delivering electricity from producers to consumers. Transformer liquids must withstand...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

SKARV: Active wind turbine control for bird strike prevention

Expanding wind power generation will greatly contribute to our ability to meet net-zero emission targets. However, this expansion must be done in a way that avoids negatively impacting wildlife. The main goal of SKARV is to minimise wind energy’s negative impact on bird populations. The project ...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

Sailing with wind-assisted propulsion in realistic wind conditions

Large ships (above 5000 gross tonnage), such as container ships, bulk carriers and tankers account for approximately 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caused by the maritime sector today. For these types of vessels zero-emission solutions, such as electrification, are not readily availabl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage