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CenSES annual report 2013
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EERA Joint program
The new European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)
program E3s was approved in June 2013. The kick-off
event was held in San Sebastian in September 2013
with participants from NTNU, SINTEF and Høgskulen i
Sogn og Fjordane. Other Norwegian members are IFE,
Vestlandsforskning and Rokkan senteret.
The purpose of the joint program is to coordinate re-
search within European research institutes and universi-
ties in the following subprograms:
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Public perception and engagement
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Analysis of policies and R&D choices
•
A life-cycle approach for evaluating the sustain-
ability performance of energy technologies
•
Energy models for a system assessment of Euro-
pean low-carbon energy futures: markets, environ-
mental and economic impacts
•
Sustainable low carbon platform.
CenSES will coordinate the subprogram on Public
perception and engagement (Asgeir Tomasgard and
Audun Ruud).
International partners in the EERA Joint program are
among others: Technalia, DTU, Austrian Institute of
technology, UKERC, VTT, Aalborg University, Enea, Vito,
and Karlsuhe Institute of Technology.
For more information, visit www.eera-set.eu.
International cooperation
Visiting researchers from DIW Berlin
Researchers from the DIW Berlin project “RESOURCSES”
visited NTNU in May 2013. Dr. Franziska Holz, Daniel
Huppmann and Philipp M. Richter focus on the intera-
tion between fossile resource markets and climate
policy. A challenge in the research is modelling of the
resource markets. They cooperate with associate prof.
Ruud Egging, PhD student Zhonghua Su and prof.
Asgeir Tomasgard at NTNU in a project modeling the
European energy markets.
In addtion to the funding from CenSES and DIW Ber-
lin, the cooperation is supported with network and
exchange money from the research council and from
DAAD. The main focus area of the cooperation is Mul-
timod, the global multi-sector multi-fuel equilibrium
model for energy systems studies. Multimod is a
cooperation between NTNU, DIW Berlin, TU-Berlin and
Tsinghua.
Philipp Richter, Dr Franziska Holz, Daniel Huppmann fromDIW Berlin
and Dr Ruud Egging, NTNU. (Photo: DIW Berlin)