The Future of Energy is Green and Digital, 9 January 2025
The Future of Energy 2025
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Program January 9, 2025: The Future of Energy is Green and Digital
09:00-10:50 Opening session: The Green and Digital Energy Transition
This session will set the scene for the conference by providing an overview of the green and digital transitions, featuring contributions from both Norway and the EU. As these transitions are interconnected, we will explore how to ensure that they reinforce each other positively. Attendees will gain insights into the current landscape of sustainable energy practices and how digital innovations can facilitate this important shift.
Welcome and opening:
- Svein St酶len, Rector, University of 探花精选
- , Vice Mayor for Environment and Transport, "Welcome to 探花精选"
- , State secretary, Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance
- , Clean Planet Director, EU Commission (video contribution): "EU鈥檚 role in driving the twin transition of green and digital energy systems"
- Morten D忙hlen, Centre Leader, dScience - Centre for Computational and Data Science: "The Twin Transition Century: Green AI for the Green Transition?"
Panel discussion:
- Moderated by Ruth Astrid S忙ter, with:
- , State secretary, Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance
- Morten D忙hlen, Centre Leader, dScience - Centre for Computational and Data Science
Keynotes by:
- , Senior Analyst in the Directorate of Sustainability, Technology, and Outlook, IEA: "World Energy Outlook 2024 鈥 Entering into the Age of Electricity"
- , Senior Lecturer in Energy, Environment, and Society, University of Edinburgh: "The Just Energy Transition: What are 鈥淲e鈥 Doing and for Whom?"
The opening session is moderated by Ruth Astrid S忙ter.
11:15-12:30 Session 1: The Production gap - the need for much more green energy
This session explores the critical gap in green energy production, emphasizing the need for efficient and sustainable solutions to meet global climate goals and rising demand.
Speakers:
- , Executive Vice President Corporate Development, Statkraft: "The Future of Energy is Renewable"
- , VP of Production Optimisation, Scatec: "Digital innovation as an enabler for scaling renewables globally"
- , Senior Research Scientist, Sintef Industry: "Digital Twin Solutions for a Greener, Smarter Grid"
- , Senior Geotechnical Engineer in the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute: "Sustainable station-keeping systems for floating wind 鈥 The TAILWIND project"
Pitches:
- , Researcher, University of 探花精选: "Tandem solar cells: more energy, less space"
- , CEO, Skyfri: "We make sunshine on demand: How to make weather dependent energy resources predictable and balanced"
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, Researcher, University of 探花精选: "REFINE: A socially placed and accepted technology for sustainable fuel production with solar energy"
Session chair: , Research Director at the Institute for Energy Technology, "Introduction to the session: The production gap from a Norwegian perspective"
13:15-14:00 Session 2: The Efficiency gap - doing more with the energy we have
Building on the need to scale up green energy production, this session will focus on improving energy efficiency to meet growing demands sustainably, emphasizing the critical importance of optimizing resource use and reducing waste.
Speakers:
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, Project Leader, Euroflex: "A flexible power grid utilizes its existing capacity: Distributed Flexibility Market and Consumer Flexibility"
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, Associate Professor, University of 探花精选: "Coping with power-hungry electronics - How materials science can stop the world from running out of energy"
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, Senior Data Scientist, Statnett: "Allowing for More Green Energy in The Grid"
Session chair: , Research Scientist, Sintef Digital
14:00-15:00 Session 3: The Sufficiency gap - reducing consumption and protecting nature
This session delves into "the sufficiency gap", focusing on strategies for reducing energy consumption through smarter prioritization of essential needs and efficient use of resources. Topics include exploring alternatives like utilizing grey areas over natural landscapes in energy production.
Speakers:
- , Sustainability Director, Hafslund: "Increasing consumption while reducing impacts. Really?"
- , Senior Researcher, Norwegian
Institute for Nature Research: "How to simulate cumulative impacts on nature & prioritise areas for conservation, restoration or sustainable development" -
, Researcher, University of 探花精选: "Sufficiency and energy demand: Defining limits and priorities through the concept of consumption corridors"
Panel discussion:
- , Sustainability Director, Hafslund
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, Resesarcher, University of 探花精选
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, Associate Professor, BI
Session chair: , Professor and Head of Research Centre FME Include, University of 探花精选
15:30-17:00 Session 4: The Resource gaps - circular economy
This session will examine the economic and material challenges of transitioning to green energy, focusing on securing critical materials, establishing resilient and circular supply chains, and ensuring essential financing for a sustainable transition.
Speakers:
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, Global Head of New Energies & Utilities, DNB: "Financing Bioenergy and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in a circular economy context"
- , Vice President, Institute for Energy Technology: "Why Critical Raw Materials is an essential part of the green transition in the EU"
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, Researcher, SINTEF Industry: "Silicon and other materials for solar cells: The need, waste streams and recycling"
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, Manager Product Area Batteries, Stena Recycling Group: "Waste legislations, ambitions, governance and enforcement"
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, CEO, Lithium367: "Innovative Lithium recycling: Sustainable Solutions for a Greener Future"
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, R&D Director, K.A.Rasmussen Group: "Recycling of Critical Metals for Norway's Green Transition"
Background
Geir Horn fra UiO og Jun Elin Wiik fra Smartgrid senteret i samtale med Vebj酶rn Bakken, direkt酶r ved UiO:Energi og milj酶.
Morten D忙hlen, center lead dScience - Original in Norwegian - Translation by Google Translate
Morten D忙hlen, center lead dScience - Original in Norwegian - Translation by Google Translate
The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, Insight paper - Original in English
From the organizers - Original in Norwegian - Translation by Google Translate
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