Today, suitable locations for new wind projects are often identified ""manually,"" with individuals familiar with the areas and local conditions studying maps and pinpointing promising sites. Later, analyses of wind conditions, biodiversity, proximity to settlements, and other factors are conducted to verify the location.

Could this process be reversed? Is it possible to build a data model that integrates parameters such as wind conditions, existing power plants, mapped natural values, municipal policies, and grid infrastructure to recommend new wind power locations?

Supervisor: Geir Drage Berentsen.

Perform a thorough scientific analysis of efficiency as well as environmental and economic effects of electrification of the oil and gas platforms in the North Sea in a national as well as international perspective.

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

Some claim that wind farms lead to depopulation and reduced residential appeal in host municipalities. Others argue that the positive ripple effects of wind power (such as municipal revenues, jobs, etc.) increase the attractiveness of living in the municipality.  Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between and probably varies from case to case.

Is it possible to draw any general conclusions based on the approximately 60 wind farms that have been built in Norway? Have they had any measurable impact on residential appeal? And what distinguishes the successful cases from the unsuccessful ones?

Supervisor: Geir Drage Berentsen.

In partly cooperation with NIVA (The Norwegian Institute for Water Research).

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

Recent years have seen substantial variation in household electricity prices in Norway. This thesis should investigate how households have responded to these price shocks. Did they reduce electricity consumption? Did they work more? The empirical analysis uses data on household-level electricity consumption.

Supervisor: Maximilian Todtenhaupt.

How to build future sustainable offshore logistics. Shipping technology, fleet renewal, energy-efficient operations will become crucial in the path towards zero-emission logistics along the Norwegian continental shelf. This topics is part of a large project in collaboration with main Norwegian stakeholders.

Supervisor: Mario Guajardo.

This project studies several topics on optimization models and methods for decision support in production of dairy and meat products. The aim is to improve profitability while reducing greenhouse gas emissions of the farming sector in Norway. It is part of a large project in collaboration with the main Norwegian stakeholders in this sector.

Supervisor: Mario Guajardo.

Some highlights of the company:

• Developer of equipment to the fish farming industry
• Our mission is to provide equipment to protect fish from lice infection
• Our products are for example protection shields, upwelling system, filtration of surface water and monitoring environmental conditions by the use of sensors
• We are constantly seeking new developments to improve our solutions
• We are also in a progress of making new partners to have the option to supply complementary products which will supplement our existing products
• Main office is located in Nordfjordeid
• Contact person: Arild Heggland

Some aspects that could be the foundation of a master thesis:

• Market knowledge of Fjord Miljø and our products
• Market rating of Fjord Miljø
• How to improve knowledge and rating?
• Estimate willingness to pay for protection against lice infection
• Valuation of our products
• How do fish farmers consider new products to be useful in the future, these products will be specified later
• Where do fish farmers expect the industry to move on, landbased, closed containers in sea, continue as their producing today?
• Other relevant topics.

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

This study complements the many that have asked whether ESG (environment, sustainability and governance) is associated with higher or lower return on investment: Finance also creates real assets. Is there evidence, in our time, that preferences or policies, regulation, raises resource flows and asset creation (builds windmills, for instance).

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

Contact Eskeland for Study design, as many approaches are on the table. One is the role of taxes (incl the new 'grunnrenteskatt'), another is new concessions and the role and shape of auctions, including contracts of difference; a third is offshore installations and how they are placed in terms of access to markets, etc.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

NHH works with technically oriented partners (industry, ntnu, ife) on scenarios for the transition to a low-carbon economy. This thesis will combine such scenarios for the transition with perspectives from political economy (as with: who pays, and industry interests, and rich vs poor) and social acceptance.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

An analysis of electrical vehicles in  Norway where reduced emissions are measured against  reduced tax revenue.

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

• What branding effect will the use of green/emission-free logistics chains have for the fish farming industry?
• What is the willingness to pay on the part of cargo owners for the use of low- and zero-emission vessels in their logistics operations?
• Economic valuation of Maritime Cleantech as a cluster organisation.
• Hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels - how big a role can the production and distribution of these play for Norwegian value creation in 2050?
• Joint Norwegian investment for the maritime industry: how to position ourselves for increased exports of green technology? (Strategic/Marketing)
• Analysis of the market for green maritime technology in Southern Europe (can be built on research done by Innovation Norway in France, Spain and Italy)
• Size, scope and framework of incentive schemes for contracts for difference.
• Are end consumers willing to pay for green (maritime) transport? If so, how much?
• Profitability analyzes and CO2 reduction for conversion of existing vessels vs. new construction.
• Life cycle analyzes for ships - case speedboats and/or cargo ships - Lifetime of vessels - co2 emissions - conversion or measures that can reduce emissions during the ship's lifetime.
• Return scheme/ circular economy model for ships.
• Is there an update of the policy apparatus to support wider and more retrofit solutions for ships, to make them more energy efficient?

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

• Shipping aims to halve its emissions by 2050. How should a shipping company approach this goal in terms of investment and redevelopment programmes? (Shipping company)
• How to market/sell green fuels and technologies that have not yet been demonstrated in the market? For example hydrogen, fuel cells etc. (fuel producers, FC producers and the like.)
• Strategy for marketing hydrogen/ammonia as a safe and secure green fuel (producers).
• Green innovation: How to change from traditional offshore to deliveries in new value chains (supplier industry, shipyards, shipping companies).
• Efficient/appropriate incentive/public/industrial structure for the production and supply of new energy carriers from wind farms and other offshore locations.

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

ESA’s Earth Online portal offers European research institutes direct and simple access to Earth Observation data coming from satellite missions operated directly by the European Space Agency and Third Party Missions. These data can be combined with ghgsat estimates to answer the following question: "How much carbon dioxide equivalent was released during the mining/extraction of a particular mine/oil & gas field?"

Supervisor: Giacomo Benini.

The risk of accepting Airbnb guests is that they might run up all of your utilities. Are renters sensitive to this concern? Estimate the relationship between listings and electricity prices.

Scrape the Data from http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data/ and determine whether Airbnb listings in the last 2 years respond to electricity prices.

Supervisor: Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

A study of the efficiency and suitability of batteries in order to solve the intermittency problem associated with new renewable energy such as solar and wind power.

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

What’s the cost-benefit for using an integrated climate and environment surveillance on seafood production? The student will assess the impact and values associated with using a detailed monitoring tool called Clarify, which currently is employed by many seafood producers. The student will be given access to unpublished data afforded by Clarify that can be directly compared to other chains of the seafood production, including feeding, fish welfare, loss to sickness and slaughter. Additional climate data can also be made available to the student depending on emerging needs. This Master opens for a relevant exploration of how monitoring can strengthen seafood sustainability and resilience to the changing climate conditions that remain the key premise for seafood production. The industry partner for this thesis is Clarify.

Supervisor: Geir Drage Berentsen.

Organizing and analyzing data from the Norwegian directorate of fisheries.

Supervisor: Arnt Ove Hopland.

Supervisor: Øyvind Thomassen.

Contact: oyvind.thomassen@nhh.no.

I have three data sets that you can use for the thesis: 1) price lists with car model variant and some technical characteristics, 2) new registrations of car model engine variants, by age and sex of the registered owner, 3) the annual rules for calculating the registration tax (engangsavgift). 

For most uses, you will want to merge data sets 1) and 2). This will entail some tedious data work (probably using Stata or R), because of a lack of exact common identifiers. 

The data go up to 2015, but it may be possible to obtain more recent data. 

There are many questions that could be answered with the data, including saying something about the effect of the favorable tax treatment given to electric vehicles, which probably explains their large market share in Norway. 

To choose this topic you must have taken a course in econometrics.

Supervisor: Øyvind Thomassen.

Contact: oyvind.thomassen@nhh.no.

Like my topic ‘Econometric analysis of the sales of new cars in Norway’, this topic is based on data on cars in Norway. However, for this topic, I currently do not have the data, but I believe they can be obtained from Statens Vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration).

My other topic uses data on the flow of new cars. This topic uses data on the stock of cars. The two data sources could conceivably be combined.

Background from a course in econometrics is needed.

How does natural resource extraction such as oil&gas production affect nearby firms in other sectors, such as manufacturing and services? Potential agglomeration effects could benefit firms, but increased competition for labor or more corruption might harm firms. Since firms are the backbone of every modern economy, these considerations are crucial to understand whether natural resources are a blessing or a curse.

Supervisor: Paul Pelzl.

Potential topics are:

• Zero emissions (in shipping/buildings/road veh/airplanes): too much, or just right?
• Certificates of Origin for Electricity; Stepchild or rising star?
• A carbon cap for Norwegian farmers: Let forests do what cows and farmers cannot?
• Carbon footprint and economic analysis for a firm/sector
• Hydrogen: which part is failing: cars, hydrogen or filling and logistics
• A new look at biomass and biofuels: can photosynthesis propel transport
• Oceans in a sustainability strategy
• Solar power: if a leap lies ahead, what can trigger it
• Decentralized power generation in Norway: framework and business analysis
• Renewable power in Norway: shall it expand, and with what instruments
• A role for Norway as a battery for Europe’s intermittent power
• A business analysis of Norway’s three proposed carbon capture and storage projects (cement, fertilizer, waste dump)
• Analysis of emission reduction prospects in Norwegian transport
• Econometric analysis of demand for energy (or carbon) intensive goods, transport
• Forests: More wood and biomass in buildings: Economic analysis of climate prospects
• Financial markets: is there evidence of ‘sin portfolios’ or ‘virtue’ (or green/fossil)? The value of fossil assets / promises in financial markets
• Analysis of CO2 markets
• Modeling energy exchange in Northern Europe

Supervisor: Gunnar S. Eskeland.

In cooperation with ENOVA

Contact: Gunnar Eskeland (NHH) and Børge Nilssen Stafne (ENOVA)

In cooperation with ENOVA

Contact: Gunnar Eskeland (NHH) and Arnt Gunnar Lium (ENOVA)

Supervisor: Stein Ivar Steinshamn.

Supervisors: Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal.

Supervisors: Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal.

Supervisors: Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal.

Supervisors: Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal.

Supervisors: Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal.

Supervisors: Endre Bjørndal and Mette Bjørndal.

Around the world, the governments are imple- menting policies to foster the introduction of renewable energy. In that context, there are different research questions to develop in a master thesis that could contribute to develop a sustainable economic system.

1. Which will be the relation between renewable energy and hydrogen?
2. Which are the policies introduced in cities to reduce carbon emissions?
3. Which will be the impact of the adoption of renewable energy in women unemploy- ment? Could the introduction of renewable energy increase the gender gap?
4. Which will be the changes in the design of electricity markets induced by the intro- duction of renewable energy?
5. Which is the relation between hydrogen and lithium batteries? Which is the best way to store electricity in the short-term and in the long-term?
6. Which policies could be implemented to promote energy effciency?
7. How do the electricity grid need to change to accommodate renewable energy?

Supervisor: Mario Blazques de Paz

Electricity markets are moving through the integration around the world. Moreover, the countries are increasing their investments in renewable production capacity to fulfil with the agreements in carbon emission reductions. In that context, the transmission grid plays a crucial role promoting the integration of electricity markets and accommodating the renewable production capacity into the system. In re- lation with this topic, there are different research questions that could be of interest to develop a master thesis.

1. Which should be design of electricity markets in the presence of transmission con- straints.
2. Could the integration of electricity markets in Europe increase competition? Which will be the impact of that integration in the investments in transmission capacity, and in renewable production capacity?
3. Which should be the relation between the spot and the redispatch market when the transmission lines are congested? How we can design those markets to increase com- petition?
4. How should the regulator design transmission tariffs to guarantee investments in trans- mission capacity, and transmission effciency?

Supervisor: Mario Blazques de Paz