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UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Turning wastewater into potable water - sustainable plant-based water treatment systems for rural communities

This is a collaborative project jointly funded by the Research Council of Norway and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The project is jointly led by SINTEF and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The project also includes collaboration with research partners from research partners at...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Bærekraftig kraftdistribusjon i Norge

As society moves towards electrification and combats climate change, minimizing other environmental impacts is also crucial. Developing Norway’s power grid—building new lines and maintaining existing infrastructure—poses challenges like biodiversity loss and other environmental effects. The Sust...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Smart tørkestyring med multisensorteknologi for økt kvalitet og energieffektivitet i trelastproduksjon

Smart Wood Kiln Drying with Multi-Sensor Technology Timber is an important building material, but production is both energy-intensive and challenging in terms of quality. Traditional drying methods based on average measurements often result in over-drying, uneven quality, and unnecessary high en...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

The Norwegian Micro- and Nanofabrication Facility IV

NorFab is Norway’s national infrastructure for micro- and nanofabrication, providing cutting-edge facilities and expertise to create advanced technologies on the tiniest scales. Specialising in sensor development, photonics, and advanced materials, NorFab enables researchers and industry to tackl...

Awarded: NOK 110.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2031

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Towards Autonomous Coiled Tubing Operations

Norway has several thousand offshore wells that need to be maintained and eventually plugged in the coming years. New wells are being drilled for oil and gas production and other purposes, such as CO2 storage and geothermal energy extraction. Future maintenance and plugging of wells represent a s...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Brannsikre fasader med bygningsintegrerte solceller

Exploiting the energy potential offered by solar power will be an important part of the transition to a more sustainable society. The potential for solar energy on available roofs and facades in Norway is enormous—equivalent to an annual power production of 65 TWh/year. By 2030, all new buildings...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

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

FME MarTrans - Norwegian R&D centre for Maritime Energy Transition

The maritime sector currently accounts for about 9 percent of Norway's greenhouse gas emissions and 12 percent of global transport emissions. If we are to reduce emissions in sea transport, we must solve four main challenges: - Environmentally friendly fuel will be expensive and scarce. Consequen...

Awarded: NOK 150.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

DREAMS: Diagnostic Requirements for Evaluating and Advancing Module Safety

Lithium-ion batteries are more prone to fires than other battery technologies due to their inherent higher energy density as well as the flammability of especially electrode materials, separator, and electrolyte solvents. When lithium-ion batteries age, their safety can decrease considerably. How...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Offshore wind farm wake effects on seabird flight energetics

As the world pushes for carbon-neutral energy, offshore wind farms are expanding rapidly, with many countries setting ambitious targets to achieve climate neutrality. However, as these wind turbines capture energy from the wind, they create areas of reduced mean wind speeds and increased turbulen...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FME ZeMe - Zero Emissions Metal Production

The transition from fossil to renewable energy sources is a shift towards a more material-intensive energy system. Stable and sustainable production and recycling of metals for use in wind and solar power plants, electric vehicles, batteries, and electronics are therefore crucial for global devel...

Awarded: NOK 150.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Integrity of the hydrogen wells of the future

In the face of the green transition and the goal of zero emissions, hydrogen gas is being highlighted as a necessary energy carrier. After the production of hydrogen gas, it must be stored safely. Underground storage of hydrogen gas ("UHS") emerges as a promising solution, where excess hydrogen i...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

DETRANS - Digital EnergyTRANSformation of the of the Scandinavian building stock

Most energy measures in buildings are financially profitable, but experience shows that they are still not carried out on the scale expected. A lack of business models, a poor decision-making basis and uncertainty around measurements are possible reasons for this. There is a large performance gap...

Awarded: NOK 12.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Li transport and interface reactions in advanced battery materials

Europe’s push for a sustainable future relies on breakthroughs in battery technology. As energy needs grow and environmental concerns become more pressing, finding better energy storage solutions is more important than ever. This is where the LiTIA project steps in, focusing on understanding lith...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Innovative bio-based building materials with thermal energy storage function

MYCOBUILD aims to make environmentally friendly building materials with superior thermal properties. We will only use bio-based masterials in our composite materials, which will contain mycelium (the root-like structure of mushrooms), fibers produced from wood, and bio-based phase change material...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Østfold

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

CETP - Optimal operation and decentralized control of offshore DC grid with RES / electrolyzer and hybrid energy storage system

This project focuses on the design, control, and energy management of an offshore MVDC grid dedicated to green hydrogen production. The proposed MVDC grid integrates renewable energy sources (e.g., offshore wind turbines), electrolyzer stacks, and a hybrid supercapacitor–battery storage system. E...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

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

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Innovative High Temperature Heat Pump for Flexible Industrial Heat on Demand

European industry uses 800 TWh annually for heating below 200°C. By combining high-temperature heat pumps with thermal energy storage, the demand can be covered with just 400 TWh from intermittent renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. Additionally, the heat pumps can contribute to b...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

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

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

6161 Novel model aided stack design for shunt current elimination in safe alkaline electrolysers

The purpose of the project is to improve the efficiency of alkaline electrolysers by up to 23% and become the worldleading supplier of alkaline electrolysers for green hydrogen production by developing a new electrolyser cell/stack design incl. material selection that supports extended service li...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestfold

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

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Testarena Trondheim - Energi og Lokale Energisamfunn; et fundament for grønn energiomstilling i praksis

Formålet med prosjektet er å berede grunnen for energiomstillingen i Trondheim gjennom å videreutvikle Trondheim kommunes (TK) roller og kompetanse innen energi, samt forstå sentrale markedsmekanismer i denne omstillingen. Prosjektet skal også avdekke og analysere sentrale FoU-satsinger som er av...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Maksimal utnyttelse av strømnettet

MaksGrid increases the utilization of the power grid by 25%: The new Pilot-E project MaksGrid will test solutions that collectively will enable increased utilization of the power grid by 25%. The project will focus on measures that grid companies can implement and control themselves, in anticipat...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Ice, Wind and Structures

Offshore wind energy is a necessary part of the green transition and is expected to expand considerably, also into areas with sea ice such as the Baltic, the Bohai Sea and the Great Lakes in USA where the water depth and other geophysical conditions favor bottom-fixed structures. Bottom-fixed str...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Norwegian Infrastructure Platform for Foundation Technology Research in Offshore Wind

Norway and the European Union (EU) recognize offshore renewable energy as critical to achieve the ambitious goal of European climate neutrality by 2050. Harnessing wind energy is a key technology for meeting the energy and climate targets. This requires substantial investments in both bottom-fixe...

Awarded: NOK 63.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2034

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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