NHH wins €4 million EU grant to tackle energy inequality
How can Europe make the green transition fair for everyone? NHH will lead a large international research project to explore the answer.
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Policy stability is key to renewable energy investment
Kyriaki Tselika, Maria Tselika, and Elias Demetriades: Proposed legislation to suspend new renewable projects, even if it never came into force, revealed how fragile investor confidence can be in renewables.
Environmental economists gather at NHH
More than 750 researchers, policymakers and industry experts are gathered in Bergen to discuss pressing questions in environmental and resource economics.
Essays on Electricity Market Dynamics
On Wednesday 25 June 2025 Benjamin P. Fram will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Ethical exclusion of shares costs us something – as does offshore wind
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Lack of profitability in offshore wind cannot be solved with subsidies. Minister of Finance Jens Stoltenberg is not being flippant when he says that.
We should stop paying China to use up our electricity
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: If we first want to pay owners from China and the US to run energy-intensive industries in this country, it is better if we pay them to do something other than use our electricity.
New article by Tselika
The article "Hydropower market dynamics in Norway: Evaluating the market value and volatility in the electricity sector" has been published in Journal of Environmental Management.
This is how we make power cables popular
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: A new survey indicates that twice as many Norwegians will be positive about electricity cables to abroad if they receive a bonus for extremely high electricity prices.
Major initiative for the renewal of Norwegian hydropower
This week marked the launch of the national research center, RenewHydro, which will receive NOK 370 million to usher hydropower into a new era. NHH is one of the key research partners.
Cable cutting is a waste
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The debate about cable cutting can cost us a lot.
New article by Ringstad and Tselika
The article "Connectedness between green bonds, clean energy markets and carbon quota prices: Time and frequency dynamics" has been published in Journal of Commodity Markets.
Aasland's harmful frivolities about sea wind
Gunnar S. Eskeland: When profitability assessments are elevated to central offices that think "general", then there will be a rigid societal restructuring. The recipe causes expensive grabbing.
If the oil money stinks, we have to give away more
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The oil revenues have a whiff of both war profit and climate damage. We should probably give more to Ukraine and to climate measures in developing countries.
Report on Nuclear power: Nøstbakken joins expert committee
The Norwegian government wants to investigate nuclear power as a potential energy source in Norway. Linda Nøstbakken, Research Director at Statistics Norway and Adjunct Professor at NHH, joins the new expert committee.
Government green investment should be a subsidy
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Politics must create expectations of private economic profitability from green solutions. It is the state's most important role in the transition.
New article by Benjamin Fram
The article "The reliability pricing model and coal-fired generators in PJM" has been published in Energy Economics.
Plan for reuse and future in the North Sea? No indeed
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Removal of the deck on Statfjord A, of 45,000 tonnes, has been ordered. The lifting ship is ready, but put on hold: There is nowhere to put the deck. The clean-up in the North Sea is becoming problematic.
New PhD thesis on decentralized supply channels
On Monday 22 January 2024 Mahnaz Fakhrabadi will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Essays on Energy Markets and the Environment
On Monday 11 December 2023 Kyriaki Tselika will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Melkøya current: Demonstration of power without strategy?
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Jonas Gahr Støre is braving himself and showing power and muscle with the Melkøya decision - it can be smart. But he may have committed a tactical blunder by not resolving the Fosen tangle first.
New article by Eskeland
The article "Wise use of renewable energy in transport" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Do the reindeer owners own the wind farms on the Fosen Peninsula?
Gunnar S. Eskeland: If the mills are not to be demolished, it is because the reindeer owners and developers come to an agreement.
The power support fails in every way
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The electricity support only so far amounts to half of the amount Norway will give Ukraine over five years. All the worse that it reinforces both energy scarcity and economic inequality.
WON THE BEST MASTER’S THESIS AWARD – ‘AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE’
NHH students Tobias Myrvoll (24) and Peder Undeli (25) wrote their master’s thesis on the price effects of the power cable between Norway and Germany. The Department of Business and Management Science awarded it master's thesis of the year.
Huge interest in the energy commissions conclusions
This week, head of the Energy Commission, NHH professor Lars Sørgard, presented the commission´s conclusions and recommendations. How can Norway increase its electricity production in the future?
Norwegian game of chance with European friendship
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Marketing Norwegian gas as "reliable" means that we must show understanding when our customers experience times of crisis. Støre should travel to Brussels and make Norway a leading and generous partner in the energy crisis.
Additional tax is power, not a partnership
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The oil tax package is the story of a state which, in miserable, nocturnal proceedings on additional taxes, cannot take care of itself, but gives away the people's money to special interests, apparently without getting anything in return.
Tax increase is not the answer when we need more power
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Experience, intuition and analysis indicate that tax relief will lead to investment and an increase in supply - also of renewable energy. So why propose tax increases both in general and for renewable energy now?
Now it seems that the fox has gotten into the hen house
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The fixed price scheme has now got a loophole which makes it most profitable for the power producers to offer fixed price agreements to the customers who need it the least.
Top publication by Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal
The article "Energy Storage Operation and Electricity Market Design: On the Market Power of Monopolistic Storage Operators" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Maximum prices will not give us more energy
Gunnar S. Eskeland: In Europe, maximum prices, rationing or export restrictions do not produce more energy - it produces more pain. But it may be better to make a partnership less binding than to see it break down.
Is it okay that the state gets richer?
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The population's demand to get their share of the gains from higher power prices is both natural and healthy.
New findings on gasoline markets
On Tuesday 26 April 2022 Ritvana Rrukaj will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
It is reactionary to want artificially cheap energy in Norway
Gunnar S. Eskeland: You have to be careful with what you wish for: You can get it. We will not be left out when the world's energy use is challenged and changed.
Cables, Climate and Glasgow
Øyvind Bøhren and Per Ivar Gjærum: The new foreign cables turn upside down discussions about climate gains. Do we understand the dilemma?
The war profits are deserved - and secured. Or?
Gunnar S. Eskeland: When we may become terribly rich in war and energy change in Europe: Maybe we should be a little ahead and prepared for the reactions we may encounter?
The weakness of the nation state can be turned into strength
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Profitability is improving, and wind turbines are becoming more and better, if cables keep the electricity market open.
Best Master Thesis Award to Strømholm and Rolfsen
Lars Skaugen Strømholm and Raag August Sandal Rolfsen are the winners of the Best Master Thesis Award at the Department of Business and Management Science for 2021.
This way, people can get a share of the benefits of high power prices, not just the cost
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Households and companies should get a share of the increase in value of Norwegian hydropower. Here is a suggestion for calculating the amount we should all get transferred to our accounts in winters like this.
Domestic Solar Energy Often Benefits Both the Climate and the Economy, but Not Yet in Norway
Øyvind Bøhren, Per Ivar Gjærum and Torkel Hasle: Our analysis shows disappointing emissions, that solar energy is unprofitable for society (and mostly also for the private owner), and misleading marketing.
Bjørndal appointed member of expert committee
A new expert committee will evaluate Norwegian power supply and the electricity grid. NHH Professor Mette H Bjørndal is appointed member of the expert group.
Market Power and Intraday Market Issues
On Wednesday 16 June 2021 Somayeh Rahimi Alangi will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
EOV-partnere sammen om offshore og sirkularitet
Energiomstilling Vest (EOV) partnerne har fått innvilget RFF Vest-forprosjektet "PRE-DECOR - Decommissioning Regulation and Contractual Implications” og har nylig startet opp arbeidet.
New article by Ådland and Procházka
The article "The value of timecharter optionality in the drybulk market" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Fund the losing project carbon capture - now
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Everything that can be sped up now, is of great value. We are going to spend enormous amounts of money, and investments in carbon capture will not be in vain. The upside is high.
The coronavirus gives us a warning for the Norwegian economy
Johannes Mauritzen: The coronavirus is a serious threat to the world economy, at least temporarily. But what happens know also tells us about Norway's long term risk as an oil nation.
Norwegian gas also needs capture and storage, too
Gunnar S. Eskeland and Asgeir Tomasgard: Equinor's plans concerning emission reductions are well and good, but Norwegian gas also needs carbon capture and storage, if we are to secure ourselves lasting, and profitable, customer relationships.
Launching Energiomstilling VEST
The ENE centre has, together with the University of Bergen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) and NORCE, created the knowledge cluster Energiomstilling VEST.
Consequently Western Norway will be able to create new industrial adventures
Leif K. Sandal and Gunnar S. Eskeland et al: We have a formidable opportunity to cooperate to take Western Norway forward.
Probably no government downsale in Equinor
Gunnar S. Eskeland: A downsell in Equinor will probably not be possible for the government.
Concentrating on electric buses may cost us solutions of the future
Electric buses are great - particularly if they beat the "open class" competition. However, we must not miss other, and maybe even better, solutions.
A little oil cut will speed up climate politics
Gunnar S. Eskeland: It is somewhat exciting what happens to the world's - and Norway's - remaining fossil resources. Do vi already see some of the tension in the North Sea?
Wind power: Prize for waiting
Gunnar S. Eskeland and Kristin Linnerud: Good prospects for offshore wind and irreversible costs related to on-land wind are good reasons to choose a step by step development of on-land wind in Norway. It may prove profitable to wait.
Norwegian electricity distribution industry
On Monday 10 December, Ørjan Mydland will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Little to gain from wind
‘Based on our findings, I cannot see that local communities that say yes to the building of wind farms have much to gain,’ says Professor Øivind Anti Nilsen.
Pricing schemes in the European power markets
On Friday 26 October 2018 Hong Cai will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
How to get rid of the oil risk
Petter Bjerksund: We do not have to sell oil stocks to reduce the oil risk. The Government Pension Fund Global could rather issue a bond where the "interests" reflect the oil price.
Investments in Emerging Technologies
On Tuesday 25 September 2018 Lars H Sendstad will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
E.ON Stipendienfonds Fall 2018
Master / PhD students and junior researchers may apply for scholarships until October 15 2018.
Top publication by Mario Guajardo
The article "Collaborative transportation with overlapping coalitions" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Transition of energy markets
On Wednesday 23 May 2018 Evangelos Kyritsis will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Power in the outskirts of Europe
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Our fish is not worth much if only we can eat it. Much of the value lies in our neighbours also when it comes to power, wind and reservoirs.
New article by Ådland: Does energy efficiency affect ship values in the second-hand market?
The article "Does energy efficiency affect ship values in the second-hand market?" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
No financial gain in digitalisation
Roar Ådland: There is no financial gain in digitalisation for the shipping companies.
Professor questions several aspects of Maersk and IBM's blockchain project
Despite massive exposure, it is far from certain that Maersk and IBM will win the digitalisation race in the shipping sector, says Roar Ådland.
Shipping: Electric before Autonomous
Roar Ådland writes about electrification in shipping, getting views from Tesla’s Elon Musk.
New article by Ådland and Jia
The article "The energy efficiency effects of periodic ship hull cleaning" has been published in Journal of Cleaner Production.
New article by Gu and Wallace
The article "Integrated maritime fuel management with stochastic fuel prices and new emission regulations" has been published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
The ticking bombs of environmental policy
Chronicle by Gunnar S. Eskeland: Exemptions from taxes lead to more and better electric cars and fuel efficient cars. The effect is mainly as desired, but there are some mistakes that should be corrected quickly.
New article by Mirhedayatian and Yan
The article "A framework to evaluate policy options for supporting electric vehicles in urban freight transport" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Top publication by Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal
The article "Finding the right yardstick: Regulation of electricity networks under heterogeneous environments" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Top publication by Endre Bjørndal, Mette Bjørndal and Hong Cai
The article "Hybrid pricing in a coupled European power market with more wind power" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
New article by Jia and Ådland
The article "Energy efficiency with the application of Virtual Arrival policy" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
NHH changed the World Cup qualifiers
Since 2005, those responsible for Chilean top flight football have used NHH researcher Mario Guajardo’s mathematical models to schedule fixtures. His methods are now also used in the South American World Cup qualification system.
new article
The article "Does fuel efficiency pay? Empirical evidence from the dry bulk timecharter market revisited" by Roar Os Ådland, Harrison Marshall Alger, Justina Banyte, and Haiying Jia has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
Essays on congestion management in electricity markets
On Monday 8 June 2015 Victoria Gribkovskaia will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Warmer climate creates trouble for power plants. When the temperature rises, plants are forced to reduce production or shut down.
Warmer climate creates trouble for power plants. When the temperature rises, plants are forced to reduce production or shut down.
PhD defense: Patrick André Narbel
On Tuesday 10 June 2014 Patrick André Narbel will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
PhD defence: Mario Guajardo
On Friday 30 August 2013 Mario Guajardo will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic, and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
A hypocritical climate policy
More and more economists are critical of the prevailing climate policy and believe that Norway must consider leaving its oil where it is. 'This is a very controversial view, because Norway has become so dependent on its oil revenues,' says Professor Gunnar S. Eskeland.