Major initiative for the renewal of Norwegian hydropower
This week marked the launch of the national research center, RenewHydro, which will receive NOK 370 million to usher hydropower into a new era. NHH is one of the key research partners.
Professor Mette Helene Bjørndal
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Mette Bjørndal is Professor at the Department of Business and Management Science and former Vice Rector of NHH. Bjørndal has a PhD in Management Science, from NHH in 2000. Her areas of expertise include analysis of energy markets, market design and pricing, transmission pricing and congestion management in electricity and gas networks, benchmarking and regulation of natural monopolies.
Bjørndal has worked on numerous research projects, often in close collaboration with regulators and industry partners, in particular on transmission pricing and congestion management, and benchmarking and regulation in the electricity sector. Some of the projects have had significant impact on the Norwegian regulatory practice.
Bjørndal was a member of the Expert Committee on the operation of the power system, appointed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in 2010. She was a member of the Central Bank Law Commission from 2015 to 2017, and is currently member of several Boards, including the Board of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway and the Petroleum Price Board. She is Research Director in FME NTRANS (Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies).
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Rahimi Alangi, Somayeh; Bjørndal, Endre Jostein; Bjørndal, Mette | Can the European intraday market be designed as a congestion management tool? | Energy Economics Volume 113; 2022 |
| Zakeri, Golbon; Pritchard, Geoffrey; Bjørndal, Mette; Bjørndal, Endre | Pricing Wind: A Revenue Adequate, Cost Recovering Uniform Price Auction for Electricity Markets with Intermittent Generation | INFORMS Journal on Optimization Volume 1 (1); page 35 - 48; 2019 |
| Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Midthun, Kjetil Trovik; Tomasgard, Asgeir | Stochastic electricity dispatch: A challenge for market design | Energy Volume 150; page 992 - 1005; 2018 |
| Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria | Finding the right yardstick: Regulation of electricity networks under heterogeneous environments | European Journal of Operational Research Volume 265 (2); page 710 - 722; 2018 |
| Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene; Cai, Hong; Panos, Evangelos | Hybrid pricing in a coupled European power market with more wind power | European Journal of Operational Research Volume 264; page 919 - 931; 2018 |
| Saastamoinen, Antti; Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene | Specification of merger gains in the Norwegian electricity distribution industry | Energy Policy Volume 102; page 96 - 107; 2017 |
| Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene; Cai, Hong | Nodal pricing in a coupled electricity market | European Energy Markets (EEM 14) Conference; page 1 - 6; 2014 |
| Cheng, Xiaomei; Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene | Cost efficiency analysis based on the DEA and StoNED models: Case of Norwegian electricity distribution companies | European Energy Markets (EEM 14) Conference; page 1 - 6; 2014 |
| Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene; Rud, Linda | Congestion management by dispatch or re-dispatch: Flexibility costs and market power effects | 10th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM); page 1 - 8; 2013 |
| Miguéis, Vera; Camanho, AS; Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene | Productivity change and innovation in Norwegian electricity distribution companies | Journal of the Operational Research Society Volume 63 (7); page 982 - 990; 2012 |
| Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette Helene; Gribkovskaia, Victoria | Congestion Management in the Nordic Electricity Market | 2012 9th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM 2012); 2012 |
| Midthun, Kjetil Trovik; Bjørndal, Mette; Tomasgard, Asgeir | Modeling Optimal Economic Dispatch and System Effects in Natural Gas Networks | Energy Journal Volume 30 (4); page 155 - 180; 2009 |
| Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt | Equilibrium prices supported by dual price functions in markets with non-convexities | European Journal of Operational Research Volume 190 (3); page 768 - 789; 2008 |
| Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt | Benefits from coordinating congestion management - The Nordic power market | Energy Policy Volume 35 (3); page 1978 - 1991; 2007 |
| Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt | The Deregulated Electricity Market Viewed as a Bilevel Programming Problem | Journal of Global Optimization Volume 33 (3); page 465 - 475; 2005 |
| Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt | Zonal Pricing in a Deregulated Electricity Market | Energy Journal Volume 22 (1); page 51 - 73; 2001 |
Discussion Papers
author pages
Research areas at the department
Main: Energy Markets, Resource Management and Sustainability
Secondary: Shipping, Logistics and Operations Management, Asset Management and Risk Analysis
Dissemination
Top publication by Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal
The article "Energy Storage Operation and Electricity Market Design: On the Market Power of Monopolistic Storage Operators" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Best Master Thesis Award to Strømholm and Rolfsen
Lars Skaugen Strømholm and Raag August Sandal Rolfsen are the winners of the Best Master Thesis Award at the Department of Business and Management Science for 2021.
Bjørndal appointed member of expert committee
A new expert committee will evaluate Norwegian power supply and the electricity grid. NHH Professor Mette H Bjørndal is appointed member of the expert group.
Top publication by Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal
The article "Finding the right yardstick: Regulation of electricity networks under heterogeneous environments" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Top publication by Endre Bjørndal, Mette Bjørndal and Hong Cai
The article "Hybrid pricing in a coupled European power market with more wind power" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.