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  • IVA's Royal Technology Tour focused on electrification and skills supply

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    Some 28 participants joined the Royal Technology Tour, including Tuula Teeri, CEO IVA (left), with Lina Bertling Tjernberg, Director KTH Energy Platform, and Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Vice-Chancellor at Luleå University of Technology. Photo: Staffan Eriksson, IVA
    Published Oct 23, 2023

    Focused on the theme of sustainable transition and development, this year’s IVA Royal Technology Tour travelled to Västerbotten and Norrbotten in northern Sweden. KTH Energy Platform’s Lina Bertling T...

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  • Electrically-powered boat motor showcased for KTH Energy Platform

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    Nicholas Honeth, Lina Bertling Tjernberg, and Christophe Duwig inspect the lightweight pod motor. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Oct 18, 2023

    KTH spin-out Zparq is set to launch its first electric motor for leisure boats next year. The technology, which is being refined in collaboration with KTH’s Division of Electric Power and Energy Syste...

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  • “Knowledge and energy are needed to address the climate crisis”

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    Guests Nate Hagens, Olivia Lazard beside Christophe Duwig, Francesco Fuso Nerini and Kerstin Forsberg co-organizers of the event. Photo: Helena Glisén
    Published Oct 18, 2023

    In September, KTH Energy Platform, together with KTH’s Industrial Transformation Platform, KTH Climate Action Center and NAVET hosted a dialogue about the impact of ongoing climate change on people an...

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  • Meet Jagruti Ramsing Thakur, our new assistant professor

    Published Oct 03, 2023

    We are thrilled to introduce our latest team member, Dr. Jagruti Ramsing Thakur, who joins us as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Heat and Power Technology. Dr. Thakur is a distinguished scho...

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  • KTH Energy Dialogue 2023: Poster exhibition

    2019 poster competition winner Ross Harnden. Photo: Fredrik Persson
    Published Sep 26, 2023

    Submit your energy poster to KTH Energy Dialogue 2023 poster competition and win a full communication training day!

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  • Medal for professor of energy

    Published Sep 04, 2023

    During a ceremony in August 2023, Björn Palm, Professor in Energy Technology, was been Refrigeration (IIR) for his scientific contributions in the field of applied thermodynamics, heat transfer, refri...

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  • More efficient bioenergy technology can contribute to the energy transition

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    Henrik Båge, CEO and co-founder of Phoenix Biopower, explains the process flow in the test installation of the company's BTC technology: Biomass-Fired Top Cycle. Photo: Fredrik Persson
    Published Sep 04, 2023

    KTH Energy Platform's first school visit of the semester was to the old heat and power centre on the KTH Campus. The front of the building is home to Phoenix Biopower, a company that develops tomorrow...

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  • KTH Energy Platform to hold several events in the autumn to build more bridges to better dialogue

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    Lina Bertling Tjernberg, KTH Energy Platform Director, meets protesters during the government’s climate summit. Photo credit: Fredrik Persson
    Published Sep 04, 2023

    The onset of the autumn term has once again filled KTH campus with researchers, teachers and students. During the autumn, KTH’s Energy Platform is organising several events, including some in collabor...

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  • SEEEP 2023 PhD summer school important part of KTH's work against accelerating climate change

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    The 2023 SEEEP summer school participants. Photo: Zheijang University
    Published Sep 04, 2023

    The 2023 edition of the SEEEP PhD summer school was recently concluded where 20 doctoral students participated from Europe, of which 14 came from KTH, and 28 from China. The KTH Energy Platform funded...

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  • Swedish parliament members visit KTH and the Swedish Defence University to learn about cybersecurity

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    The Rifo visiting group. Photo: Magnus Trogen Pahlén
    Published Sep 04, 2023

    At the beginning of the summer of 2023, the Society of Members of Parliament and Researchers, (Rifo), made a joint study visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Swedish Defence University. ...

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  • Full day on solar energy inspires new research collaborations

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    In May, KTH's researchers gathered for a seminar on solar energy. Photo: Pierre Bodin
    Published May 31, 2023

    In the beginning of May, the Energy Platform arranged a seminar to lay the foundations for greater collaboration in solar energy at KTH.

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  • Sweden’s EU presidency and extensive co-operation key themes of the spring semester

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    The Kraftkvinnor association delegation during the EU Brussels visit in April. Photo: KTH
    Published May 30, 2023

    KTH’s Energy Platform organised several events during the spring, on topics such as fusion technology, solar energy and materials research to enable the energy transition. The Platform was also involv...

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  • KTH Energy Platform in energy dialogues during Almedalen 2023

    Published May 30, 2023

    KTH participates in Almedalen 2023 talks and dialogues on the energy issue through, among others, the KTH Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg.

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  • Research in focus as KTH research platforms share the stage at IVA 

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    KTH’s Materials and Energy research platforms got together to discuss the challenges of a sustainable energy transition. Photo: Fredrik Persson
    Published May 29, 2023

    In May, KTH’s Materials and Energy research platforms got together to discuss the challenges of a sustainable energy transition. Together with the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), ...

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  • First steps taken towards establishing a KTH Fusion Centre

    Fusion energy flows through a tokamak fusion reactor.
    Fusion energy flows through a tokamak fusion reactor. Photo: Istock
    Published May 29, 2023

    A new research centre is being planned at KTH, which will focus on attracting and supporting Swedish fusion research. The KTH Fusion Centre has an interdisciplinary remit to bring together material re...

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  • Recovering of lost energy research project on IVA 100 list of 2023

    Published May 10, 2023

    The research project "Recovering the Lost Energy", run by KTH Energy Platform Deputy Director Christophe Duwigs with colleagues, has been listed on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences IV...

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  • KTH Energy Platform spoke at conference on EU future energy supply

    Published Apr 26, 2023

    The KTH Energy Platform attended and spoke at the conference “Challenges and opportunities for the EU's future energy supply” organised by the Riksdag Committee on Industry and Trade held in the Riksd...

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  • Involving students a major goal of ongoing library energy research exhibition

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    The energy research exhibition area in the KTH Campus library. Photo: L. Berggren
    Published Mar 06, 2023

    On 23 February, KTH Energy Platform and the KTH Library held a vernissage of the exhibition “Towards the energy of the future - the invisible revolution behind the electrical socket”. An inaugural pop...

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  • Professor G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy gives a talk at KTH in September

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    G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy.
    Published Feb 28, 2023

    On 14 September 2023, G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Professor at Clemson University, will attend the KTH Digitalisation & Energy Platforms workshop “Data driven methods with energy applications”. The tent...

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  • Energy at KTH – a new place for research news

    Published Feb 03, 2023

    KTH has launched a new LinkedIn page dedicated to energy research. The page will feature content from all KTH. “Now that energy is a hot topic, we have an excellent opportunity to reach decision-make...

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