218 projects

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ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Secure energy systems for a renewable future

The power sector is the backbone of modern Norwegian society and supports almost all critical functions, including healthcare, transport, communications and national defence. Today, this critical infrastructure faces increasing threats; cyberattacks, sabotage and intelligence operations. This cre...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Nature-Integrated Norwegian energy system transition - Opportunities, Trade-offs and Strategies

Harmony is about identifying political feasible solutions that ensures that the Norwegian energy transition jointly minimize climate gas emissions and undesired nature impacts. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to limiting the impacts of climate change. But there is a challenge. The ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Imagining Positive Energy Futures

The Imagining Positive Energy Futures (IPEF) project, led by NTNU, engages a humanities-centered approach to understanding the most pressing conflicts in and around Norway's energy system. The project is a transdisciplinary initiative that explores how different groups in Norwegian society imagin...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Capacities for Energy Transition Governance

The CAPACITIES project examines how the energy transition is governed at state and municipal levels. In the decades when the administration and institutions in the energy sector were developed, their mandate was more limited and focused than it is today, where complex societal challenges must be ...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Batteries as flexibility provider for the Norwegian Electric Power System – drivers, opportunities and challenges

How Can Batteries Support Norway’s Green Energy Transition? Rapid cuts in emissions through electrification based on renewable energy is one of the biggest challenges of our time. But Norway’s electricity grid lacks the capacity needed – and that makes the transition harder. To balance electrici...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

DECODE: Decentralized Energy Communities with a Digital Economy

We tend to see money as something ordinary. It moves between hands and screens as if it were simply a neutral medium of exchange. But money is not neutral. It is an infrastructure that organizes how resources, energy, value, and power circulate. For the past fifty years, that infrastructure has b...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 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

RENOVATE: Regional Energy Transition Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies in Norway

RENOVATE: How Norway's oil and gas regions can meet the energy transition The effects of the energy transition in Norway will be wide-ranging, it will reshape jobs, communities, and local economies. Coastal regions that rely heavily on oil and gas, now face profound structural change. RENOVATE de...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Route to Zero Emission public transport

The transport sector accounts for approximately 30 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions. Public transport is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions related to regional governments' service provision. Hence, the central government has introduced zero-emission requirements in public pr...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Evidence-based policy innovation for household energy investments

How can more households be encouraged to invest in energy-smart solutions? Ennovate is a research project that aims to identify how public support schemes and information can be better designed to make it easier and more attractive for households to invest in energy efficiency and local energy pr...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Europe’s evolving market design towards 2040: Electricity Market Reform and decision-making during its implementation

EVOLVE will uncover the impact of the EU Electricity Market Reform and its implementation on the evolution of the European electricity market towards 2040. The reform leaves several important issues to be resolved through follow-up decisions at national and European levels. The content of these d...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Regional Electrification and key tensions in the Norwegian energy transition: Co-creating strategies and enabling better decisions

Electrification has emerged as a cornerstone of Norwegian climate- and energy policy. From an early focus on road and maritime transport, electrification policies now focus on large point-source measures to enable swift emission cuts for a net-zero society by 2050. Beyond transport, the goal is t...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

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

Regional Energy System Pathways for decarbONised inDustry 2030

RESPOND2030 explores the interplay between decarbonisation in energy-intensive process industries (EPIs) and energy systems change. EPIs, such as metals, fertilizers, or cement, are key to value creation, but account for large emissions that need to be drastically reduced, or eliminated, to meet ...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

PowerPlay: Complementarity Formation and Trade-offs of the Nordic Battery Value Chain

PowerPlay aims to provide a comprehensive examination on the extent to which complementarities are formed in the Nordic battery ecosystem (Norway, Finland, and Sweden) given that this sector is the recipient of substantial public investment. In addition, PowerPlay also aims to investigate the loc...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

GET Engaged: Citizen Engagement and Areas Under Pressure in the Green Energy Transition

What do citizens think about the construction of an ammonium factory in their neighbourhood or a power line through the valley? The research project GET Engaged will help to involve residents in the plans when common areas are to be used for new green energy projects. If Norway is to achieve its...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

NordForsk: Legitimacy and Acceleration in Green Energy Initiatives and Transition

To meet the challenges brought about by climate change, there is a need for the green transition and decarbonization of society to proceed faster, come in the form of larger projects, and reach new areas of society. This need increasingly conflicts with other environmental and social challenges. ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

NordForsk: Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions

Energy system transitions are high on the political agendas of all countries today. Decarbonization and reduction of climate gases are necessary to have a realistic chance at limiting global warming 1.5 degrees as mandated by the Paris Agreement of 2015. In the green transition, the focus mostly ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FME SecurEL - Secure, resilient, and sustainable electricity distribution grids

SecurEL facilitates a secure, resilient, and sustainable electricity distribution grid that ensures both the security of electricity supply and a path to a net-zero emissions society. Accelerating large-scale electrification to replace fossil fuels is one of the most effective strategies for red...

Awarded: NOK 180.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Positive EneRgy diStrIctS driven by ciTizens

The project PERSIST is focussed on the involvement of citizens who are not engaged yet. One of the innovations of PERSIST lies in aiming at a combined appraisal of actors engaged and not yet engaged to better understand both the factors that are favorable for models of efficient, sustainable and ...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Østfold

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

A fair low-emission transition of the power market (FAIRPOWER)

This project aims to assess how an accelerating low-emission transition ahead may have undesired distributional impacts. A key challenge is to design compensatory policies that do not set the transition nor other energy policy goals at risk. The project seeks to advance the knowledge base relevan...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Out of the shade? Solar development challenges in Norway (SOLNOR)

SOLNOR will be a first to systematically investigate framework conditions for small- and large-scale solar in Norway, and a first Scandinavian comparison for this. While solar has been developing slowly in Norway, Denmark and Sweden are further ahead, although they all have likely barriers and di...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

WINDREG - Offshore wind and regional futures: challenges and opportunities for energy justice in regional transitions

WINDREG has made good progress and has been communicated to user groups in various settings since the last status report. We held a successful study tour to the Humber region in the UK for regional project partners and researchers in March 2025, and a one-day dialogue seminar was held in the same...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Agder

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

EU Climate Policy Implications for Land Use in Norway: Managing Trade-offs and Achieving Policy Coherence

EU climate policy will have great significance for Norwegian climate, energy, forestry, and land-use policy in the years leading up to 2030 and beyond. Conflicts and trade-offs between climate, energy, and nature considerations are challenges that we will increasingly have to deal with. The Clima...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Considering the Environment and Nature when Building and Operating Ground Mounted Solar Power Plants in Norway

EnviSol's mission is to harmonize the growth of ground-mounted solar power plants in Norway with the imperative to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. With renewable energy production, preserving nature, and supporting ecosystems all in mind, EnviSol aims to pinpoint the ideal methods an...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Norway in the European green transition - Strategies and policy measures combining cost-effective emission reduction with high acceptability

EUs energy-related policies have many implications for Norway. Climate is emphasized in EU's Net Zero Industry Act, even if climate policies are facing additional challenges. We assess the development of relevant energy policies in the EU in terms of decarbonization, hydrogen and support for gree...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

AMMONIA: Climate and environmental impacts of green ammonia (NH3)

Fulfilling the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting climate change, requires strong and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Policymakers and industries point to a transition from fossil fuels to hydrogen and hydrogen-based energy carriers as part of the solution. Zero-carbon am...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

curbing Fisheries and Aquacultures Maritime air Emissions

Norway aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 to 55 percent relative to 1990 levels by 2030, and to become a low-emission society by 2050. While the political platform of the current Government (Hurdalsplattformen) requests policy instruments to promote a green transition of f...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Clean Energy Research Week in India (CERCH)

The 5-day Clean Energy Research week (CERCH) entails the organization of a physical event spread across three Indian cities (in New Delhi, Gujarat, and Telangana) from 27th March – 31st March 2023. SIN shall conduct the event with the aim to enhance collaboration with Indian stakeholders working ...

Awarded: NOK 48,752

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Østfold

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU IFE

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Awarded: NOK 74.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Akershus

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