Norway

Norway's Hydro Secures Renewable Energy Deal with Statkraft
Norsk Hydro's subsidiary, Hydro Energi AS, secures renewable power with Statkraft in a long-term agreement, showcasing a commitment to sustainable energy practices.
Mar 21, 2024 // Plants, Europe, Statkraft, Norway
Solar Power Shines at North Pole: Isfjord Radio Test Site
Experience the warmth of the sun in Norway as 360 solar panels are installed in the Svalbard Archipelago, providing electricity to an old shipping radio station and cutting CO2 emissions. Helping isolated sites and the planet, this renewable energy project is leading the way to a greener future.
Sep 19, 2023 // Plants, Europe, Norway, PV Power Plant
FREYR Bags EUR 100m for Norway Gigafactory
FREYR Battery (NYSE:FREY) has been awarded a €100 million grant from the European Commission’s Innovation Fund to build a Giga Arctic factory in Norway. Tom Einar Jensen, CEO, expressed his excitement for the project, which will help unlock GWh scale capacity for next generation battery production. Construction begins in June 2022.
Jul 14, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Norway, Freyr
Bolette: Floating Solar Unlocked
Fred Olsen 1848 has launched Bolette - a proprietary system to allow floating solar arrays to cope with wave and wind loads. Bolette is a cost-effective and simple solution, with 150kW pilot installation planned in Norway this summer and 3MW commercial project in 2024. Unlock the potential of floating solar with Bolette.
Jun 20, 2023 // Plants, Floating PV, Europe, Norway, PV Power Plant, Fred Olsen 1848
Norwegian Sovereign Fund to Invest in 1,265 MW RE Capacity of Iberdrola
According to the terms of the agreement, the assessment of 100% of the assets in the portfolio amounts to roughly EUR 1.2 billion. Iberdrola will certainly have a majority stake of 51% in the assets and Norwegian fund will have the rest 49%.
Jan 18, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Iberdrola, Europe, Norway, wind, Wind Energy, decarbonization, Solar Power Projects, solar PV project, wind farm, Norges Bank Investment Management, Spanish multinational utility
Wood wins FEED job for Norwegian hydrogen project
Gen2 Energy intends to construct a 100MW green fuel production facility in Mosjøen
Nov 9, 2022 // Storage, Europe, Norway, green hydrogen, Wood, Gen2 Energy, Jonas Meyer
Freyr appoints service provider to construct its Giga Arctic battery plant
Norwegian battery cell firm Freyr Battery (NYSE: FREY) on Friday said it has actually authorized a contract with Norwegian building company HENT when it comes to the building of its very first factory, locatd in Mo i Rana, Norway, and called Giga Arctic.
Oct 3, 2022 // Storage, Europe, Norway, Freyr battery, Giga Arctic
Norwegian oil and also gas major Equinor buys United States battery storage developer East Point Energy
Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor will certainly get East Point Energy, a US-based programmer of grid-scale battery energy storage projects.
Jul 13, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Virginia, Europe, North America, Norway, Equinor
TGS gets asset management firm Prediktor
Norwegian energy data and knowledge firm TGS has actually acquired renewable resource asset and also real-time data supervisor Prediktor.
Jul 4, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Norway, asset management, acquisition, data management, prediktor, tgs
New software program to determine solar-suitable surface areas
Norway's Glint Solar has actually established cloud-based software program that locates suitable surfaces for solar parks. It evaluates factors such as the range to the grid or substations, topography, soil depth, and also solar radiation. The tool can likewise be used for initial project sizing.
Jul 1, 2022 // Software, Europe, Norway, glint solar, Even Kvelland, Harald Olderheim
Prefab floating solar for very easy setup
A Norwegian startup has actually patented a floating planetary system constructed from panels laminated flooring on top of double-aluminum sheets. The pre-stringed floats are turned out on site and hauled into area.
Jun 29, 2022 // Technology, Plants, Floating PV, Europe, Norway, Per Lindberg
Norway to become member of International Solar Alliance
Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt revealed Norway's membership of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) during her official check out to India, a statement by the nation's Embassy here said on Tuesday.
Apr 27, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Norway, Renewable Energy, international solar alliance, Anniken Huitfeldt
The Hydrogen Stream: Underground hydrogen storage for 1 MW electrolyzer in France
Elsewhere, several hydrogen projects were introduced in Norway, Germany, India, China and also the UK. Royal Dutch Shell started operations at the power-to-hydrogen electrolyzer in China as well as Germany's Linde Engineering authorized a contract for the construction a green hydrogen demo plant in Norway. In Addition, Green Hydrogen Systems signed a supply agreement with Edinburgh-based Logan Energy to deliver electrolysis tools for a project in England.
Jan 31, 2022 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, France, Germany, UK, India, China, Europe, Asia, hydrogen, Norway
Elkem provided US$ 1.8 m grant to pursue carbon-free silicon manufacturing, aims to license to other suppliers
Elkem has been offered NOK16 million (US$ 1.78 million) from the Research Council of Norway to establish a silicon manufacturing procedure that gets rid of all straight CO2 emissions associated with its manufacturing.
Dec 22, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Europe, silicon, Norway, Elkem, research and development
Norwegian Mfr FREYR Bags Off-take Offer to Provide 31GWh Battery Cells in 5 Yrs
Norwegian clean power storage space designer FREYR Battery has implemented its inaugural off-take arrangement for at the very least 31 GWh of low-carbon battery cells with an undisclosed producer and also company of energy storage systems.
Dec 20, 2021 // Storage, Europe, BESS, Norway, Freyr battery, Battery Cells, Tom Jensen