The Government plans to locate the national centre for energy savings in Trondheim. Our know-how in efficient energy transmission systems for electricity, thermal energy and gas are all key areas in energy savings.
Related fields are innovation processes, enterpreneurship and economic factors.
Trondheim also offers a good supply of graduate engineers and some of the best continuing and further education in technology anywhere in Norway. An agreement to license the use of Norwegian CO 2 technology, was signed in September 2000 with a Japanese company, Denso Corporation. Even though electricity in many countries is produced by thermal power plants, the associated CO 2 emissions from heat pumps will generally be considerably lower than modern high-efficiency oil and gas fired boilers. Since there is increasing use of natural gas in power production and a continuous improvement in the energy efficiency of heat pump systems, in years to come, the heat pump will become a powerful tool for reducing CO 2 emissions. At the moment it is too early to state the future importance of the process in industrial terms.