The value of end-use flexibility:
Perspectives on digitalization, energy communities and power markets 

Time: 28 april 2021: 09:00 – 12:00 

• Open to all 

• Chair: Pedro Crespo del Granado

About this workshop

Integrating end-user flexibility in the operations of the energy system has the potential to reshape load profiles to match variable renewable generation(VRE), to reduce peak load, and to create a more active demand-side participation in power markets and grid operations. However, incentivizing and raising end-use flexibility touches upon multiple technological and structural challenges (e.g., social, market, and regulatory). To this end, the objective of the workshop is to discuss related questions on:

• What is the value of end-use flexibility? (from the consumer perspective as well as for the energy system)
• What market designs will provide the right investment signals to guarantee a business case (long term perspective) for providers of end-use flexibility (from prosumers, local markets to aggregators?
• How is digitalization and smart grids enabling the emergence of a consumer-centric energy transition? What is the role of Peer-to-Peer and flexibility markets in supporting grid operations and managing VRE?

Speakers and panel discussants: Confirmed international speakers will discuss up-to-date research and challenges on end-use flexibility.

Workshop Organized by Pedro Crespo del Granado  (NTNU), and Igor Sartori (SINTEF). This in coordination with two ongoing research projects, Flexbuild and Beyond.

Climate finance: Hard choices in the Energy transition 
 

Time: 28 April 2021: 13:00 – 17:00

• Chair: Stein-Erik Fleten 

• Full program for the workshop

In this workshop we will focus on economic risks that arise from climate policies and climate action failures, emphasizing risks in public and corporate strategies and mega-projects. Can we discover and discuss risk factors that potentially can avoid stranded assets? There are two sessions, each followed by a discussion. The first session is devoted to the oil and gas sector with a focus on transition risks, whereas the second session focuses on the electricity sector with an emphasis on policy risks. 

You will hear contributions from: 

• Liv Kari Eskeland, Member of Parliament in Norway representing the Conservative party and a member of The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment, Norway 
• Ottar Skagen, Equinor, Norway 
• Espen A. Hauge, The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), Norway 
• Tine Compernolle, Docent, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Franziska Holz, Professor DiW Berlin and NTNU, Germany 
• Luiz Barroso, CEO, PSR Energy Consulting & Analytics, Brazil 
• Jostein Søreide, Hydro, Norway 
• Ahlmahz Negash, Tacoma Power, USA 
• David Aikman, Professor at King's Business School and Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance, UK 
• Harry Van Der Weijde, University of Edinburgh, UK 

Workshop organized by Maria Lavrutich (NTNU), Verena Hagspiel (NTNU) and Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU).

Negative emissions and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) 

Time:  14.00-18.30, 28 April 2021

Most scenarios and pathways that brings us to a net zero society rely on our ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere from around 2040 and onwards. This workshop aims to involve key representatives from industry, government, academia and NGOs in discussion of some of the central questions that needs to be solved. It is the first in a series of workshops and we will try to outline the main challenges related to:

1. How should businesses approach a situation where negative emissions becomes a necessity?
2. What is the role of governments in making this happen: for example, reducing risk, building markets, and providing regulation – and what is the right timing?
3. What are the knowledge gaps that the academic society should address?

• Chair: Asgeir Tomasgard 
   
• Full program for the workshop

Note:
This workshop employs a modified Chatham House Rule.  Participants are free to use the information received during the meeting, but specific positions taken by individuals should not be attributed without expressed permission.  However, formal presentations, the meeting agenda, and the meeting participation list will become part of the public meeting record unless participants request anonymity.

This workshop resultet in the production of a Policy Brief: Negative Emissions and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

Can participation and inclusion deliver just energy transitions? 

Time: 29 April: 09:00 – 12:00 

• Open to all 

• Chair: Tomas Moe Skjølsvold 

Participatory processes and social inclusion are key aspects of just transitions. In this workshop we discuss what this means, both in practice and conceptually. What does it mean to participate in the energy transition, and which are the ways that public actors and industry can advance inclusive forms of participation? This workshop showcases research perspectives and work by practitioners who work with such issues daily and seeks to stimulate a combination of broad reflection and hands-on discussions about why, how and when to engage the public. 

Contributions from: 

• Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia 

• Øyvind Tanum, Trondheim municipality 

• Anatol Itten, TU Delft 

• Ines Campos, University of Lisbon 

• Mari Bern , Trøndelag County 

• Kacper Szulecki, University of Oslo/FME include 

European energy and climate modelling 
 

Time: 30 April 2021: 10:00 – 14:00 

• By invitation only. If interested, send us an email