Winners of Alf Bjørseth’s Inspiration Award
Please click each winner for a link to UiO and NMBU homepages respectively (Norwegian only).
2019
Thorbjørn Mehl, NMBU
2018
Rannveig Jacobsen, NMBU
Henrik Hovde Sønsteby, UiO
2017
Knut Bjarne Gandrud, UiO
Dr. Kirill Ovchinnikov, NMBU
NorSun secures NOK 515 million to fund capacity expansion
NorSun, the leading non-Asian producer of monocrystalline wafers for ultra-high efficiency solar cells, has closed a NOK 230 million equity round to double the company’s production capacity, introduce new technologies, and significantly reduce unit costs.
REETec and partners receive € 12.5 million support for REE extraction project
SecREEts – game-changing rare earth elements extraction project
The research and innovation project SecREEts, is a partnership between REEtec and the Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara, and the research institute SINTEF, who heads and coordinates the project.
New generation thorium mixed oxide fuel pellets loaded into reactor for testing
Thor Energy and IFE has successfully produced ThMox pellets in their nuclear fuel laboratory at Kjeller outside Oslo, Norway. The high quality pellets were loaded in two fuel pins and assembled into a test rig
New investors join Scatec Solar to develop the 100 MW Nova Scotia solar project in Nigeria
On 19 December 2016, Scatec Solar signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Africa50, an African Infrastructure Fund sponsored by the African Development Bank and more than 20 African States and Norfund (the Norwegian Investment
Thor Energy has second round of thorium test irradiation underway
The second phase of a five-year trial-operation of thorium based nuclear fuels is now under way. The international consortium established* in 2011 and led by Thor Energy is undertaking a sophisticated test-irradiation campaign in order
Scatec Solar and Nizam Energy to build 150 MW of solar power plants in Pakistan
Oslo, July 7, 2015: On the occasion of the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Norway, Scatec Solar and Nizam Energy signed an agreement here today to jointly develop and Build-Own-and-Operate solar power plants
Scatec Solar awarded 258 MW in latest bidding round in South Africa
Scatec Solar, the independent integrated solar power producer, has been awarded preferred provider status for three solar power plant projects with a combined nominal capacity of 258 MW in the fourth round of the “Renewable
Norsk Titanium is strengthening its Board by appointing Warren M. Boley, Jr. as Director and Christopher E. Kubasik as Vice-Chairman
Oslo, April 15, 2015 – Mr. Warren Boley, Jr., former President of Aerojet Rocketdyne, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Norsk Titanium AS (NTi). Mr. Christopher E. Kubasik, President & CEO of