Energihuben

Future Energy Hub is a research project and a co-creation arena supported by the Research Council, Rogaland County Council and local business. The project was initiated by the Research Network for sustainable Energy at UiS. The goal is to create greener buildings and cities. The year 2023 has been busy with strengthening cooperation with business and the public sector. This has been done in part by expanding activities on campus in connection with the energy lab, which focuses more on student-driven research and innovation in sustainable buildings and lifestyles. In 2023, five students have lived in the building, carried out analyzes and prepared proposals for solutions in close collaboration with companies. The energy lab has now focused on students themselves finding the best solutions and then contacting relevant companies. This has been a change if we were previously able to deliver solutions based on what the companies wanted to donate. Now it is the students who assess which solutions are optimal before proposals for solutions are obtained from companies. Close cooperation has been entered into with companies and the students work closely with them. The second major project has been to gather regional actors to develop the region's first positive energy districts. Different areas have been identified, but initially the project, together with the other regional actors, has chosen to focus on the Kvalaberg area in Hillevåg, where Stavanger Municipality and the district heating company Lyse NEO have development plans underway and where there is great potential for industrial symbioses in the area, especially in terms of for the utilization of waste heat from industrial processes among the major manufacturers in the region. Preliminary analyzes of the energy balance in the district have been prepared and working groups have been established for more detailed analyses. In addition, the Hillevåg initiative is part of a new EU DUT project, Energy4All, where Hillevåg is included as one of four districts in Europe that will look at different forms of organization for Positive Energy Districts. UiS, Skreting, Felleskjøpet Rogaland and Stavanger Municipality are partners in the new project. The third main activity, where we are making great progress, is cooperation with the regional business community. In 2023, the Future Energy Hub has established formal cooperation agreements with the innovation hubs Nordic Edge Innoasis and FOMO Renew Hub, which focus on urban energy and renewable energy technologies. The purpose of the collaboration with these is to give companies and the public sector better opportunities to collaborate with the university in research, innovation and education. Concretely, the agreement means that UiS organizes teaching at Innoasis and FOMO, where the member companies can be included as guest lecturers, communication between companies and students about bachelor's and master's theses, science talks, where researchers communicate their research to member companies at seminars and workshops as well as joint workshops between different research groups at UiS and companies at FOMO Renew Hub and Nordic Edge Innoasis.

Universitetet i Stavanger og Stavanger-regionen vil bli et internasjonalt kraftsenter for nødvendig omstilling innenfor bærekraftig energi. De omsøkte midlene vil hjelpe oss å realisere denne målsetningen. Regionen har de siste årene tatt en ledende rolle i utviklingen av smarte byer. Forskningsnettverket for miljøvennlig energi ved UiS vil styrke energifokuset innenfor smartby satsningen. Energihuben skal resultere i grønnere bygg og bydeler. Prosjektet kobler sammen spisskompetansen på energisystemer fra olje- & gass næringer og morgendagens bygninger fra bygg & anleggs-bransjen, sammen med nasjonalt og globalt ledene forskning- og utdannelse miljøer. Energihub'en vil få vidtrekkende konsekvenser for verdiskaping og gi oss evne til å utvikle produkter og tjenester mot et globalt voksene fornybarmarked. Fokuset mot utvikling av grønnere bygg og bydeler er valgt fordi det representerer et aktivt hjemmemarked, og fordi trenden er at fremtidens bygg, i stadig større grad blir desentraliserte energihuber. Energihuben fokuserer på distribuert fornybar energi og smart teknologi. Innenfor dette segmentet skal vi utfordre det velkjente og utforske det ukjente gjennom økt forskningsinnsats, økt lab. kapasitet og fokusert samarbeid mellom næringsliv og FoU. Dette skal resultere i et ledende multidisiplinært fagmiljø for studier og forskning. Samarbeidet med næringslivet skal akselerere utviklingen av morgendagens teknologi og tjenester innenfor distribuert fornybar energi og smartteknologi. Vi ønsker bl.a. å videreutviklet ingeniørutdanningene våre til å bli landets mest etterspurte utdanninger knyttet til det tverrfaglige Smartby fagfeltet. Etablere skreddersydde kurs for videreutdanning av ansatte i næringsliv innenfor distribuert fornybar energi og smartteknologi. Utvikle et ledende forskningsmiljø innen smart distribuert fornybar energi og energiinformatikk.