News archive for Bergen Energy Lab (BEL)

In a joint Energy Lab/DIGSSCORE/CET lunch-meeting, professor Gisela Böhm from the Department of Psychosocial Science presented survey results on public acceptance of different energy sources.

Jørgen Knutsen graduated from the UiB energy master in 2015 with a specialization in thermal machinery. In his master thesis, he performed energy, exergy and exergoeconomic analysis for an existing combined heat & power unit with an imagined waste-heat recovery unit attached.

On the 19th of September, Endre Tvinnereim, senior researcher at UniResearch Rokkansenteret and Center for Research on Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), presented the following paper: Physical changes and risks to humans: Explaining what people in four European countries associate with climate change

On the 12th of September, Tor Sørevik from the Department of Mathematics held a presentation in Bergen Energy Lab. He talked about research challenges within the field of Photovoltaic Solar Energy, and his collaborations with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) in Ghana.

Kristine Domaas Klemetsen was one of the first graduates from the master’s programme in Energy at UiB. She wrote a master thesis about the wake effects at the Sheringham Shole wind farm, in cooperation with the company Aquiloz. Now she works as an Energy Engineer at GK in Bergen, contributing to large energy reductions in industrial buildings.

Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.