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Eirik Finserås
Offshore wind farms can "steal" wind from each other (31.10.2023)
Offshore wind farms can “steal” the capacity of other farms by up to 20 percent up to 50 kilometres away, due to wake loss. The regulation is ambiguous and needs to be developed to accommodate large-scale offshore wind development in the North Sea and other ocean areas, according to PhD Candidate Eirik Finseraas at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.
Image from the documentary film Deep Rising.
Exploring the unknown deep sea (25.10.2023)
“There are huge knowledge gaps regarding the deep sea. My scientific project is to help fill some of those knowledge gaps,” says researcher Pedro Ribeiro. Inadvertently, this has led him and his colleagues into the hot topic debate on deep-sea mining.
WATCH: Webinar on European energy policy @ Bergen Energy Lab” by Rosita Zilli, EERA Senior Policy Officer (20.10.2023)
WATCH: European Electricity Market Design for the Future (17.10.2023)
Did you miss our half-day seminar on European Electricity Market Design for the Future, co-organized by Bergen Energy Lab / NHH Norwegian School of Economics? Watch the presentations here!
WATCH: Hydrogen production from electrolysis and natural gas pyrolysis (11.10.2023)
In this presentation, Jonathan Økland Torstensen, associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, present ongoing work on optimization of hydrogen production through hydrolysis of water and pyrolysis of natural gas respectively, and discusses aspects of the two methods and their potential utillity in large scale hydrogen production.
WATCH: Korleis kan fleksibilitet handtere utfordringar i distribusjonsnettet (How can flexibility handle challenges in the distribution network) - Norwegian language (10.10.2023)
In this presentation, Per-Oddvar Osland discusses how customer flexibility can contribute to solving challenges related to the increased pressure on the power grid, such as power peaks. The presentation will be held in Norwegian language.