2009
- Major boost to solar cell technology research
- On February 4th, the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) received funding for the establishment of a Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (CEER) from the Research Council of Norway. The title of the Centre is "The Norwegian Research Centre for Solar Cell Technology".
- IFE to develop offshore wind technology
- On Wednesday 4th February, IFE’s central participation at Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology was announced.
- Gunnar Randers Research Prize to Professor Roger Pynn, USA
- The Prize is awarded to an outstanding researcher, and one of the pioneers in the neutron scattering field.
- SUCCESS for CO2 storage project
- Wednesday February 4th was a big day for IFE’s CO2 research, when the SUCCESS centre was appointed as one of eight centres with status as Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research.
- Brighter future with new solar lab
- Monday 20th of April King Harald V of Norway visited IFE to present the Gunnar Randers Research Prize and open the Institute’s new solar lab building.
- Exciting opportunities at IFE: A place in the sun
- How does a researcher at IFE work? What drives them? Here you can meet one of IFE's solar cell researchers. Josefine Selj studies how porous silicon can be used to capture light in very thin silicon solar cells.
- Exciting opportunities at IFE: carbon capturer
- What is IFE doing in the area of carbon capture? Meet one of our researchers in the field. Ingo Machenbach is developing technologies for storage of the problematic CO2 gas in minerals.
- Honourable prize to Tor Bjørnstad, Department Head of Reservoir and Exploration Technology
- Society of Petroleum Engineers has awarded the prize ”Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award” for 2009 to Tor Bjørnstad (IFE) for his work in research and technology development for the petroleum industry.
- IFE’s President gave an opening speech at the Nordic Council’s climate conference
- The conference ”Paving the way – Concrete measures to tackle climate change” was held in Stockholm October 26 2009, and was part of the Swedish EU-presidency process leading up to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
