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Mastère OSE Field Trip NORWAY Mastère OSE Class of 2002 Norwegian Energy context Contents : STATKRAFT : Mår 2 The energy policy of Norway rests under the responsibility of the Ministry for Oil and Energy power plant via three departments : the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate which regulates the oil related activities, while the Norwegian Administra- NORDPOOL : head- 3 tion for Water and Energy (NVE) manages quarter the energy resources, notably the produc- tion and distribution of electricity, and sets OSLO : Waste Man- 4 energy policy and controls ; an administra- agement plant tive branch finally is in charge of the budget and administrative affairs of the Ministry. IFE : OECD reactor 5 project in Halden The energy policy has been directed, since IFE : Virtual reality 6 the 1990 vote of a law on energy toward a center in Halden more competitive style of operation and the control of energy. The resources of STATOIL : Research 7-8 Norway in hydrocarbons (9.5 G barrels for Center in Rotvoll oil – 6th producer and 3rd for exports in the world - and 4020 G m3 for natural gas – 9th SINTEF Energy : 9 producer and 8th for exports in the world) Research Center in and hydroelectricity (178 TWh /year, i.e., Trondheim 99% of total production) are huge. Yet Norwegian residents do not benefit from ELKEM : Ferro- 10 these oil resources since petrol is heavily Silicon plant in taxed (72% in 2001). However, thanks to hydroelec- Contacts : Thamshavn tricity, the price of electricity is very low in spite of a M. Jean-Noël BALÉO hefty increase this winter due to the low rainfall. Attaché for the Science and Technology French Cultural Centre Electrical consumption per inhabitant is therefore of the French Embassy in Oslo Monday 17 of March : particularly high : at 25 MWh it is 3.5 times higher [email protected] than in France, an the total energy consumption per Reception held by the inhabitant is twice the EU average. Mlle. Karine ANTHOINE Science and Technol- Assistant of the Attaché ogy Attaché at the French Embassy, Jean- Noël Baléo, in honour One week of visit of the visit of the Ecole des Mines de Paris in Norway. Members of the Norwegian scien- This field trip which took place between plant in HALDEN as well as the various pro- tific community were March the 15th and 23rd 2003 climaxed the six jects involving virtual reality, a very useful tool present. This provided months long Mastère course work by high- in a number of application fields related to en- an opportunity for the lighting the Norwegian energy problems. Af- ergy systems. students to establish ter visiting a Statkraft hydroelectric power The visit of the STATOIL Research Center contacts with mem- station (the primary Norwegian energy introduced us then to the Norwegian fossil bers of the Norwegian source), we went to Nordpool, the first elec- energy resources and that of Sintef Energy’s led industrial and institu- tional world. trical energy exchange, and then to an energy us to a concrete example of multi-energy sys- recovery plant powered via household rub- tem optimization. bish incineration. After these energy produc- tion and distribution issues came visits to the The week ended with the visit of the ferro- major actors in the Norwegian energy world. silicon production factory of Elkem at Tham- shawn as an illustration of energy consumption First IFE (Institute for Energy Related Tech- and optimization in industrial processes. niques) via the OCDE funded pilot nuclear Page 2 Mastère OSE Field Trip Tour of the Mar power plant, Statkraft firm Warmly welcomed by Bjørnar Ol- unit’s technical managers gave sen, we began the day with an us a guided tour of the facilities. overview of the activities of this This atypical power plant has a important Norwegian actor in the capacity of 180 MW and is run energy field: 87 with five 36 MW turbines. As power plants opposed to conventional hy- which produce 1/3 draulic plants, this one is very of the country’s little affected by the level of electricity. With water reserves. The com- 5000 employees pany’s production levels are and a production therefore mainly influenced by of 58 TWh per the level of demand. year, the Statkraft A 760 meter high wa- company is the terfall continuously supplies the leading producer plant via 1250 meter of tubes. and trader of en- With an impressive reactivity, ergy in Norway. the power can increase be- As most Norwe- tween 1 and 36 MW/turbine in gian power plants, this company less than a minute. mainly uses hydraulic means of The power generated production. This makes Statkraft by the plant is supervised from a control room which insures two key elements. That is, the water flow going through the turbines (which determines the level of production) and the point of entry on the grid. The day came to an end with a tour of old plant build- ings, converted in the Vemork Museum. This allowed us to discover a very interesting page largely dependent on the rainfall of Norwegian history: the inflows but also bestows the firm sabotage of the heavy water with a strong reactivity. Such flexi- bility is a strong competitive advan- tage on a deregulated market: 1/3 of Statkraft’s production is sold on Contact : the NordPool. Furthermore, the M. Bjørnar OLSEN fact that its energy is renewable Senior Adviser has allowed the company to be- STATKRAFT come a player in the market for green certificates in Germany and [email protected] in the Netherlands. Once acquainted with supplies by Norwegian rebels Statkraft’s activities and market during the occupation by the strategy in Norway, one of the third Reich. Mastère OSE Page 3 NordPool Headquarter visit in Oslo Nord Pool, The Nordic Power Ex- ext exchange and owning change, is the world's first multina- shares in the European En- tional commodity exchange for ergy Exchange (EEX) in Germany. electric power. Established in 1993, its effective operation began Nord Pool currently offers 3 types in 1996. of products : Nord Pool is owned by the two - a physical (spot) market, national grid companies, Statnett SF - a financial market providing in Norway (50%) and Svenska hedging tools (forward and Kraftnät in Sweden (50%) but al- future contracts, options) - a clearing system (clearing house, clearing counter- party) to guarantee all finan- cial settlements as well as physical deliveries. In 2002, Nord Pool turnover amounted to 3 232 TWh repre- senting about 60 billion Euros. Of the total 3 232 TWh, spot market exchanges accounted for 4%, finan- cial market transactions for 32% and clearing system exchanges for 64% in volume. lows electric power exchanges be- tween four countries (Norway, Nord Pool, initially Scandinavia- Sweden, Danemark, Finland). focused, nowadays gathers 308 ac- Nord Pool was the first power ex- tors located in 11 countries, includ- change market created in Europe ing UK, USA, France, Germany, the and took advantage of the electric- Netherlands… The Nordic Power ity market Exchange deregulation also recently in Scandina- adopted the Contact : vian countries Euro as a M. Hatvig MUNTHE- 10 years ago. trading and KAAS Today, the clearing cur- Senior Vice President Corporate experience rency. Communications Areas of fu- accumulated Nord Pool ASA enables Nord ture devel- P.O. Box 373 Pool to be opment for NO-1326 Lysaker the foremost Nord Pool Vollsveien 19 European power exchange and to entail derivative markets, extended serve as a basis for the widespread commodities (gas, green certificates [email protected] development of energy trading and CO2), all of which should across Europe, supplying for ex- strengthen its presence and impor- ample the spot market trading sys- tance in European energy-related tem to France’s growing Powern- exchanges. Page 4 Mastère OSE Field Trip Waste Management Plant in Oslo The Oslo Municipal ally in different kind of development of the Waste Management construction materi- plant. was established in als. More than 70% of In 1998 the thermal 1897. The company the energy from the energy production belongs both to the incinerators is used in amounted to 535 municipality GWh including of Oslo and 399 GWh, which to a private represent more company. than 70%, that The Munici- was sold as va- pal Waste por for the pro- Management duction of heat System con- and electricity. sists of two The vapor is incineration produced at a plants of a tem perature total capacity close to 400°C, a of 240 000 pressure of tonnes per year. The district heating and more than 20 bar and plants are able to production of electric- with a flow of ap- process consumer ity. The electricity is proximately 100 t/h. waste and commercial not directly made in- The capacity of incin- waste : landfill sorting, side the plants. since eration of the factory fluorescent tubes and only steam is pro- has been constant bulbs, food waste, duced and sold. In the since 1995 and al- hospital waste. Some near future, the capac- though the public of the dust coming ity of incineration is opinion is unfavour- from the combustion going to be increased, able, it will have to in- process is used in the in spite of the bad crease in the years to composition of con- public opinion, which come. crete and more gener- is slowing down the Contact : M. Dag PETTERSEN Executive Officer, Information Waste Managemant Authority Renovasjonsetaten Postboks 4533 Nydalen, 0404 Oslo [email protected] Mastère OSE Page 5 The OECD Halden Reactor Project main areas : Fuels, Material and Man- Machine System (MMS). Inside the core, 30 p o sitions (out of 300) are used for experimen- tal pur- poses.