Nordic energy cooperation
In it together
If the Nordic countries were to co-ordinate their future energy, climate, and air pollution strategies it would provide significant benefits for the environment and community planning. This is the result of a Nordic study co-ordinated by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
Nordic cooperation on energy efficiency
The Nordic Council of Ministers has put down a working group to promote co-operation between the Nordic countries, and keep the position as one of Europe’s leading regions in energy efficiency.
The Nordic Climate Facility
The Nordic Climate Facility is financed by the Nordic Development Fund and implemented jointly with The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation. It provides funding for projects that have a potential to combat climate change and reduce poverty in low-income countries.
Life is a highway
The Green Highway is a green corridor between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Norwegian sea. Along it you find the infrastructure to recharge you electric car, or fill up your tank with biofuel.
NEFCO Projects
From shipping wood chips to Sweden, to chipping in on hydropower in Lithuania. These are some of the energy-related projects that the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation is involved in.
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO)
Environmental problems know no boundaries. Luckily, neither do solutions. The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) was established in 1990 to finance environmental projects in Central and Eastern European countries. NEFCO prioritizes projects that reduce releases of climate gases, improve the ecological status of the Baltic Sea or mitigate release of toxic pollutants.
Nordic Ecolabelling
Nordic Ecolabelling has set a long-term climate objective of a significant reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases that may cause an increase in the temperature of the earth.
Nordic green power certificates
Sweden and Norway have agreed to establish a common market for green electricity certificates.
International Engagement
Climate change and other environmental problems do not recognise national borders. In order to implement the sustainable energy solutions these problems require, we must collaborate at national, regional and global levels. Active engagement in international cooperation has long been considered crucial by the Nordic region.
Nordic energy cooperation
There is a long and successful tradition of Nordic cooperation in the energy sector. The Nordic energy cooperation is expected to play a strong and active role in the development of Nordic and European energy policies.
The Nordic grid with energy from wind farms
The main objective in the project is to develop models for studying the implications of operating the Nordic grid with a large amount of the electric power and energy coming from wind farms.
Innovative pretreatment of Nordic wood for fuel-ethanol
The main objective of this project is to develop new pretreatment techniques that will reduce the overall production costs for fuel-ethanol from Nordic lignocelluloses biomass.
Biomass and waste conversion to fuels, heat and power
The Graduate School aims at providing the basic scientific and technical knowledge to solve problems related to conversion of biofuels.
The Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy
Folkecenter intends to achieve measurable increases in the utilisation of renewable energy technologies and thereby significant reductions in environmental pollution associated with energy use.
Nordic Centre of Excellence in Photovoltaics (PV)
The centre will strengthen the already formed Nordic R&D network and develop it into a centre of excellence effectively serving the fast-growing and demanding Nordic PV industry.
Nordic Energy Perspectives
Nordic Energy Perspectives (NEP) is an interdisciplinary Nordic energy research project with the overall goal of demonstrating means for stronger and sustainable growth and development in the Nordic countries.
The Nordic Working Group for Sparsely Populated regions – TBO
The Nordic Working Group for Sparsely Populated regions – TBO aims to establish contacts and relations aiming to exchange information and experiences. This might later result in more joint policy making in the West Nordic Region and the North Atlantic Area.
The West-Nordic project
Nordic Energy Research has studied different alternatives for distributed energy production systems for scarcely populated areas.
The Development on the Nordic Electricity Market
All Nordic countries have liberalised their electricity markets.
Nordic cooperation on electricity
Nordel is the collaboration organisation of the Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Nordic Energy Regulators (NordReg)
NordREG is a cooperative organization for Nordic regulatory authorities in the energy field. Our mission is to actively promote legal and institutional framework and conditions necessary for developing the Nordic and European electricity markets.
The SusNordic Gateway
The SusNordic Gateway focuses on how global commitments to sustainable development are being implemented in the Nordic countries, with a special emphasis on energy and climate-change.
Cooperation on energy
The Baltic countries are busy emerging from their energy «isolation» thanks to power cables to Finland, Poland and Sweden.
Vind 2008 conference
On the 8-10 October the Nordic Council of Ministers arranged, as part of the Swedish chairmanship, together with Swedish Wind Energy a wind power conference, Vind 2008.
Action Plan for Nordic Energy Cooperation 2006-2009
This is the key element of the vision for the Nordic Energy Co-operation, which the Nordic energy ministers adopted at their meeting in Akureyri in 2004.
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