Industrial decarbonization: highlights from NorRen 2025

This year, the Norwegian Research School in Renewable Energy (NorRen) took place from August 18-22. It gathered 30 PhD students from Norwegian and European Universities. The summer school was held at Fana Folkeh?gskule, near Bergen, in a green and peaceful setting.

Students and lecturers standing in front of the onshore storage tanks at Northern Lights in ?ygarden. A few days after our visit, the first CO? was successfully injected into the reservoir. Photo: Ingvild Budal Jacobsen/UiO

By Ingvild Budal Jacobsen
Published Sep. 2, 2025

Exploring pathways to decarbonization

The week was packed with activities. There were lectures, visits to industrial sites, a trip to the town hall in ?ygarden, collaborative group work, presentations, and engaging lectures at the University of Bergen. The event concluded with a geopolitics simulation exercise, which was met with enthusiastic participation by the PhD students.

The summer school explored different areas of the green transition, including an economic understanding of the power market, industrial restructuring, just transitions, the role of the energy system in the dec