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  • Richard Pitts about ITER - the world’s largest tokamak reactor

    Richard Pitts presents on the KTH Energy Dialogue 2022
    Published Jan 25, 2023

    During KTH Energy Dialogue 2022 in November, Richard Pitts, Leader of the Experiments and Plasma Operation Section of ITER, held a presentation entitled "ITER: Putting the Sun in Box". He gave a backg...

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  • KTH Energy Platform welcomes Sweden’s EU presidency and the new KTH president

    President Anders Söderholm with Lina Bertling Tjernberg et al.
    The new KTH president Anders Söderholm participated in the event "Future Skills for a Sustainable Energy System", arranged by the KTH Energy Platform at the end of 2022. Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
    Published Jan 17, 2023

    Energy supply is still in focus and the KTH Energy Platform wants to be a platform for knowledge and contribute to innovative and strategic solutions. The platform director comments the situation in t...

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  • Dialogue contributes to securing skills needed for a sustainable energy system

    Five people having a conversation
    Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
    Published Jan 17, 2023

    The energy sector is facing a skills shortage in several areas. The need to improve diversity and equality is especially pressing. In December, KTH Energy Platform held a networking meeting and discus...

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  • Meet the researchers behind new storage solutions for hydrogen and spent nuclear fuel

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    The Energy Platform’s visit to the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering included presentations and a tour. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Jan 16, 2023

    The Energy Platform’s last study visit of the year was to the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE). During the visit, partici...

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  • KTH Energy Dialogue 2022 recordings now available

    Three men and two women in a panel on stage.
    The first panel discussion at this year’s KTH Energy Dialogue was entitled Sustainable Growth with Co-operation from Business, Politics, Academia. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Jan 13, 2023

    Collaboration and internationalisation were on top of the agenda during the KTH Energy Dialogue 2022, and recordings are now available. A keynote was given on the world’s largest fusion experiment. In...

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  • Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg inducted IVA Fellow

    A woman with brown long hair, white shirt and dark jacket standing beneath power lines.
    Lina Bertling Tjernberg. Photo: Håkan Lindgren
    Published Dec 20, 2022

    KTH Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg has been inducted as a new Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). She is also a Professor in Power Grid Technology at K...

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  • Vice President Annika Stensson Trigell thanked by the platforms

    Vice President Annika Stensson Trigell (with flowers), plattform directors and the administrative support. Photo: David Nilsson
    Published Dec 13, 2022

    Annika Stensson Trigell, Vice President for Research and leader of KTH's research platforms during six years, is leaving her position by the end of the year 2022. She was sent off with flowers from th...

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  • Researchers on the transformation towards sustainable energy

    Published Dec 07, 2022

    Can economic growth be sustainable, is the transition to a fossil-free future achievable and what is the biggest change researchers want to see by 2040? These are some of the questions that were answe...

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  • Energy issues more important than ever in 2022

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    Screenshot/SVT Agenda Special Energiutmaningen in November 2022 where the KTH Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg (middle) participated.
    Published Dec 05, 2022

    Hello there, Lina Bertling Tjernberg, KTH Energy Platform Director! What’s your take on the past year?

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  • "Singing shower" won this year’s poster competition

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    The second prize winners of the poster competition, the jury and the platform directors. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Dec 05, 2022

    The poster exhibition during the KTH Energy Dialogue 2022 ended with an award ceremony where three projects were rewarded for their presentations. The prize is a day’s communication training at Public...

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  • Collaboration and internationalisation top the agenda at this year’s KTH Energy Dialogue

    A man and a woman standing on a stage in front of a big screen.
    The themes of this year’s KTH Energy Dialogue were collaboration and internationalisation and it was opened by Christophe Duwig and Lina Bertling Tjernberg. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Dec 05, 2022

    This year’s KTH Energy Dialogue, which is organised within the auspices of the KTH Energy Platform, attracted a full house at Nymble. The event focused on collaboration and internationalisation, theme...

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  • Solar cells and non-toxic batteries in the spotlight during KTH Energy Platform’s CBH visit

    A man with a white shirt, a beard and glasses presenting. Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
    James Gardner, Associate Professor of Photoelectrochemistry, gives KTH’s Energy Platform a warm welcome during a visit to CBH. Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
    Published Dec 02, 2022

    In October, KTH Energy Platform visited the School of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, (CBH), and the Department of Applied Physical Chemistry in particular. During the visit, there were demonstra...

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  • KTH Energy Platform participates in COP27

    Published Nov 15, 2022

    KTH Energy Platform Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg is participating tonight during the COP27 Climate Hub "Day 8, Energy & Action For Climate Empowerment".

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  • Solar energy, fusion and international co-operation in focus at this year's KTH Energy Dialogue

    People mingling in a hall.
    Researchers, students and representatives from business and government authorities gather at the KTH Energy Dialogue to be inspired by each other’s work and find new ways to collaborate. Photo: Fredrik Persson
    Published Oct 19, 2022

    The theme of KTH Energy Dialogue 2022, which will be held on 17 November between 1pm and 4pm, is co-operation and internationalisation. This year’s panel discussions will focus on the importance of in...

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  • Call for poster for KTH Energy Dialogue 2022

    2019 poster competition winner Ross Harnden. Photo: Fredrik Persson
    Published Oct 18, 2022

    Impact is a key concept for research – it is the way to make a difference! Please share your reseach with all KTH Energy Researchers and give participants of the KTH Energy Dialogue 2022 a taste of th...

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  • KTH Energy Platform visits the lab where sustainable materials are being designed for the future

    Three women talking together.
    Liubov Belova and Veena Singh were two of the researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering who welcomed the Energy Platform, including Director Lina Bertling Tjernberg (right). Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
    Published Oct 17, 2022

    KTH Energy Platform’s visit to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering included a well-received tour of labs and research centres. This is where new materials, methods and products are cre...

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  • Energy Platform visits KTH Live-In Lab smart building testbed

    A group of people at a table in front of a screen. Blue helmets on the table.
    KTH Live-In Lab, where new technologies are tested and developed with the aim of accelerating the development of smart, sustainable buildings. Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
    Published Oct 17, 2022

    At the end of August, the Energy Platform visited the KTH Live-In Lab, which provides researchers and companies with opportunities to test new technologies for smart buildings, in particular systems d...

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  • “Nuclear power is now being taken seriously as a sustainable energy option”

    Published Sep 05, 2022

    Public resistance to nuclear power was strong when Professor Janne Wallenius began developing the technology for small, lead-cooled nuclear reactors. But times have changed, and ten years down the lin...

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  • Call for books: KTH Energy Platform book stand

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    KTH researchers/authors/editors are invited to submit contributions to the book stand during KTH Energy Dialogue in November. Photo: Pexels
    Published Sep 05, 2022

    For the annual KTH Energy Dialogue in November, KTH Energy Platform is planning a book exhibition table. Thus to display various books where KTH researchers are book authors/editors on relevant topics...

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  • Popular new science anthology on energy set to become knowledge platform 

    Parts of the energy anthology editorial team. Photo: VA
    Published Sep 05, 2022

    When researchers from KTH got together with independent Swedish non-profit membership organisation VA (Public & Science), the result was a popular science book about energy that has received a lot of ...

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