ROLF BARMEN, FJORDKRAFT Tougher on climate demands STUDENT MODEL ADOPTED People& POWER More precise forecasts NO. 2 2017 | PROVIDING PURE ENERGY FEATURE Collaborative CUSTOMER solutions POWER for the future Here comes the sun Rundedal solar energy park will help the Netherlands meet its climate targets. Bart Robrecths and Andrea Boccabella kept the construction process on track. PEOPLE&POWER A MAGAZINE FOR STATKRAFT EMPLOYEES Content NO. 2 | 2017 28 POWERTALK. Fjordkraft CEO Rolf Barmen takes the customer's perspective in a rapidly growing company. The value of being innovative 4 He is convinced that carbon neutrality is the competitive MORE HYDROPOWER. advantage of the future. Ringedalen is the 86th power plant owned and "Coming up with something new is easy, audience one such story about how operated by Statkraft in doing it all by yourself is harder." one person’s idea had a huge impact Norway. Read more about 32 the official opening on the WARMING UP THE CITY. The Norwegian author Olav Duun on the business. current affairs pages. District heating veteran Egil wrote this more than 80 years ago A German employee was the Helmer Evensen has spent but it still applies today. first to realise that the way Statkraft a long career developing New framework conditions and was supplying power from a limited 6 district heating in Trondheim. Statkraft Varme has many changing markets place increasing number of hydropower stations BRIGHTER DAYS ARE customers in the city. demands on us, and thus innovation could be scaled up and offered to COMING. On a site the and business development are other producers of renewable energy, size of 25 football pitches, Statkraft is opening a brand becoming more and more important. and customers reacted immediately. new solar energy park near 34 But how and where do the best Statkraft’s German virtual power Emmen in the Netherlands. STATKRAFT SCHOOL. business opportunities and new plant today has a portfolio of more A series of support schemes ideas emerge: behind closed doors than 1 300 wind and solar installa- aim to stimulate increased where some smart folks meet "to tions with a total capacity greater production of renewable 12 energy. Lars Ragnar Solberg figure it out?" Or by interacting with than the largest coal plant and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. in Energi Norge explains the the wider world, in dialogue with nuclear plant in Germany combined. This summer's student main ones. employees, customers and partners? This German story is taking us to project created a new self-learning tool for more Statkraft and Innovation Norway new markets elsewhere. accurate forecasts of power recently gathered a number of busi- It is evident that small ideas can consumption. 37 ness leaders, entrepreneurs, students be of great importance, and unique GOOD NEIGHBOURS. Waste and top-level Norwegian politicians ideas rarely occur in a vacuum. in the reservoirs is a problem at a conference on Norway's poten- Increasingly, innovation and business for many hydropower plants. 13 What can schoolchildren do tial as a laboratory for a green future. development take place through FEATURE: CUSTOMER about it? Check out the story One of the key learnings from the dialogue with employees, customers POWER. The energy industry from Kargi in Turkey! conference, based on discussions and business partners. is changing and the custom- ers are taking a more active and collaboration, was how impor- As a commercial company we role. What does this mean tant it is to capture and collect good must be constantly better at under- for Statkraft? Cooperation 38 ideas wherever they appear – and standing our customers in a broad with Rockwool in Trondheim HAPPY SALMON. The mod- then choose the best and put them sense, so that we become compet- and Moss is one of many ernisation of Nedre Røssåga examples of how close power plant has had positive to work. itive in a new and different energy dialogue with customers spillover effects, including for At the conference, our CEO future. results in new and innovative the Røssåga River. Now the Christian Rynning-Tønnesen told the solutions. water and the salmon are back. Editor-in-chief: Bente E. Engesland Editor: Tone Dahle [email protected] Editorial staff: Tone Dahle, Judith Tranninger, Knut Fjerdingstad, Jenny Bull Tuhus, Heidi Sæther, Eivind Bull-Hansen, Sissel Fantoft Layout and production: Fete typer + Savant English translation: Glen Farley & Brigid McCauley Increasingly, innovation and business development Cover photo: Ole Martin Wold Photo page 2: Xynteo BENTE E. ENGESLAND Printing: RK Grafisk AS Circulation: 5000 take place through dialogue with employees, customers SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE COMMUNICATION We appreciate your input and feedback: [email protected] and business partners. BENTE E. ENGESLAND 2 STATKRAFT NO 2 2017 NO 2 2017 PEOPLE & POWER 3 CURRENT AFFAIRS POWER POWER Airvolution Clean Energy (ACE) is Statkraft's GROWTH. Renewable energy production is growing SWAPPING INTERESTS new partner for building land-based wind power rapidly. Electricity capacity from renewable sources will STATKRAFT AND NORFUND have reached an asset swap agree- in Scotland. The ambition is to realise project increase by over 920 GW, or ment for their ownership interests in international hydropower. As 43 per cent, towards 2022 a result, SN Power and Statkraft are ending their cooperation while opportunities totalling 300 MW. Earlier this year according to the Renewables Statkraft strengthens its position in South America and South Asia. Statkraft opened Andershaw wind farm; and 2017 report published by the "Statkraft's strategy is to build stronger positions in fewer mar- International Energy Agency kets," says CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen. "At the same time, 300 more will soon be under way. in October. we will expand the portfolio to include wind and solar power." New hydropower in Norway NEW KNOWLEDGE EARLIER IN THE AUTUMN three new hydropower plants were com- missioned: Ringedalen power plant, Offervann power plant, and Reduces impact Lille Måsevann pumping station. These will increase Statkraft's on nature Norwegian hydropower portfolio by 74 GWh annually. "Better utilisation of existing facilities is good asset management Better utilisation USING POLYURETHANE (PU) and makes good economic sense, and it always generates positive of existing facilities FOAM as backfill around buried local spillover effects," says CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, who penstocks for hydropower and pumping stations increases profit- was present during the opening of Ringedalen power plant. is good asset ability and reduces alterations to The power plant in Odda Municipality in Hordaland County is management the natural environment. This is the the 86th power plant that Statkraft operates in Norway. With an conclusion of a study completed installed capacity of 23 MW, the plant will produce around 60 GWh and makes good by two master's students at the annually. The power plant uses a height of fall of over 500 metres. Norwegian University of Science From the intake located almost 1 000 metres above sea level, the economic sense, and Technology (NTNU) during the water falls in a tunnel into the brand-new power station inside the construction of Lille Måsevann and it always pumping station in Finnmark. mountain. Here the energy is captured by two identical 11.5 MW "When foam replaces concrete Pelton turbines before the water flows into Lake Ringedalsvatnet. generates positive and crushed stone when laying The mayor of Lebesby Municipality in Finnmark County, pipes and anchoring bends, the Stine Akselsen, led the official opening of Offervann, Statkraft's local spillover impact on nature is reduced due northern most power plant. "I’m pleased that Statkraft is devel- effects. to significantly reduced volume of oping new renewable energy in Lebesby," she said, "and I hope material transported to the building Statkraft will look for new investments in our municipality." CEO CHRISTIAN RYNNING-TØNNESEN site," says Tor Oxhovd Svalesen, Statkraft's project manager for Lille Offervann power plant uses a height of fall of 10 metres Måsevann. between the reservoirs Lake Offervann and Lake Store Måsevann NTNU professor Leif Lia was re- within the current regulation capacity of Adamselv power plant. sponsible for the academic follow-up Average annual production is estimated at 7 GWh. of the research project, which was At Lille Måsevann pumping station in Lebesby, the ceremonial Celebration. The opening of Ringedalen power plant (above) supported by the public energy con- ribbon was cut by Raymond Robertsen, chairman of the Finnmark was officiated by CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, shown servation agency Enova. "This was Estate Agency. "This is what feeds the Teslas, iPhones and our here in the new power station inside the mountain (left). the first time PU foam was used for Offervann (centre) is Statkraft's northernmost power station anchoring and backfilling penstocks entire society," he said. and was opened by Mayor Stine Akselsen earlier this fall. in full scale," he says. "The project Lille Måsevann pumping station transports water from Lake The opening of Lille Måsevann pumping station also marked provided many answers for further Lille Måsevann to the intake reservoir for Adamselv power plant, the end of a research project (see New Knowledge to the development of the method and Lake Store Måsevann, and it increases net annual production by right). Student Stian Løbø Aaker (from left), Professor Leif confirmed that anchoring of pipes Lia, student Nina Johnsen, Construction Manager Øyvind 7 GWh. with PU foam is possible." Pedersen, and the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Both Offervann and Lille Måsevann are examples of further Directorate's (NVE) Terje Grindhaug, showed that polyuret- utilisation of watercourses that are already regulated. hane foam works well as backfill around penstocks. 4 STATKRAFT NO 2 2017 NO 2 2017 PEOPLE & POWER 5 CURRENT AFFAIRS SOLAR POWER Installation. The solar panels in Rundedal solar energy park will soon be put into operation.