CV

University Education

Ph.D. Sustainable Energy Planning, Aalborg University, 2008.

M.Sc. Engineering, Aalborg University, 1993.

Career

2008-ongoing, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University.

2005-2008, Ph.D. Fellow, Aalborg University.

2000-2005, Manager, Energy Consultant, ENERGIANALYSE.DK.

1998-2000, Technical Adviser, Thai-Danish Co-operation on Sustainable Energy, Danish Organisation for Sustainable Energy.

1993-1998, Energy Consultant, RAMBØLL.

Professional associations

Community for Energy, Environment, and Development >
Danish Development Research Network >
Dansk Energiøkonomisk Selskab (An affiliate of International Association for Energy Economics) >
Danish Organisation for Sustainable Energy (Board Member) >
VE-net's District Heating Working Group >

Projects completed prior to employment at Aalborg University

2005 Malaysia, Technology Foresight Expert, Cost-Effective Policies for Malaysia in the Hydrogen Economy, Malaysia's Energy Center. Reporting .

2004-2005 Malaysia, Training and Modelling Expert, The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project, NIRAS / Danida. Technical support and training in integrated energy planning and techno-economic energy analysis and modelling, and technology assessment/foresight. Lead TA on the application of techno-economic energy models LEAP and COMPEED for in-depth policy research. Reporting .

2004 Indonesia, Training and Modelling Expert, Center for Energy Information (CEI) / Multi-regional LEAP training, ECN (Energy Centre of the Netherlands). Planning and implementation of workshop in Jakarta with ECN on multi-regional LEAP analyses for East Kalimantan and South Sulawesi. Reporting .

2002-2003 Denmark, Information and Awareness Expert, Projekt Energibus – Mobile Unit on Sustainable Energy, Schools Energy Forum / Danish Energy Agency. Conceptual and technical design of a set of Mobile Units on Sustainable Energy, aiming at increasing awareness about renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency options among various Danish target groups; secondary schools in particular.

2000-2003 Malaysia, Training and Modelling Expert, Capacity Building in Integrated Energy Planning in Government and Related Agencies – Malaysian Energy Centre (PTM), RAMBØLL/DANCED. Technical support and training in integrated energy planning and techno-economic energy analysis and modelling, and technology assessment/foresight. Lead TA on the application of techno-economic energy models LEAP and COMPEED for in-depth policy research.

2000-2002 Malaysia, Training and Public Awareness Promotion Expert, Centre of Education and Training in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CETREE/USM), Danish Energy Management / DANCED. Technical support and training in development of public information systems and information campaigns in general, and the development and employment of Mobile Units as a means to disseminate information about renewable energy and energy efficiency in particular. Technical design of stand-alone PV-system to be included with the Mobile Unit, interior and exterior design and functionality, design and development of training and information materials.

2000-2001 Malaysia, Team Leader, NGO Project Identification Mission to Malaysia - Appraisal Mission. The Danish Outdoor Council / DANCED. Identification, appraisal, and development of 16 energy and environmental projects from a pool of 55 project proposals. Networking with organisations and stakeholders, training of groups in use of Logical Framework Analysis, project design, and proposals write-up.

2000 Malaysia, Energy NGO Expert, NGO Strategy and Program Identification Mission to Malaysia, The Danish Outdoor Council / DANCED. Planning and implementation of seminar on environmental project design, responsible for facilitating energy sector NGOs and supporting the development of Malaysian-Danish NGO project proposals.

2000 Denmark, Energy Planning Expert, Seminar Speaker and Facilitator, Energy Planning in Environmental Assistance. International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE). Speaker and facilitator on a number of international energy seminars on the subject: “Energy Planning in Environmental Assistance”.

2000-2005 Denmark and Overseas, Modelling Expert, Development of COMPEED (Comparative Energy Project Evaluation). ENERGIANALYSE.DK (Own research). Design, development and application of COMPEED; a cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness toolbox for private and public decision-makers. COMPEED is software for externality-oriented techno-economic energy project analysis and a platform for decision-support and capacity-building purposes. For the policy maker COMPEED can be used to compare projects of differing nature and lengths, enabling prioritization among a range of alternatives. For the financial investor, COMPEED may be used for studies of private investments, and thus to calculate a "go-no-go" decision.

1998-2000 Thailand, Technical Adviser, Thai-Danish Co-operation on Sustainable Energy, The Danish Organisation for Renewable Energy (OVE) / DANCED. Overall responsibilities comprised technical support and training, donor reporting, coordination of short-term assistance. Specific activities included: • “Sustainable Energy Mobile Unit” running on vegetable oil and having a solar powered electric system – design, coordination, and implementation of Mobile Unit and included information and education equipment. Among included information and education samples and tools were energy efficient stoves, solar hot water system, solar cells, efficient stoves, pamphlets, handbooks, videos, CD-ROM • “Energy education” – design and development of “Teachers Manual” in Energy Education and “Students Handbook” in Sustainable Energy • Development of 5 hands-on exercises targeting secondary schools about energy efficient lighting, efficient charcoal stoves, recycling of vegetable oil, solar hot water, and solar cells • “Wind power, solar energy, and biogas CD-ROM” – development of Thai interactive information system on CD-ROM based on a Danish CD-ROM developed by the Danish Energy Agency • “International Energy Planning Workshop” – design, implementation and training • “Sustainable Energy Alternatives to the coal-fired power plant under construction at Prachuap Khiri Khan” – a technical and economic comparative analysis. Design, contribution to, and coordination of expert team’s analysis report • “National Conference on Public Participation in the Energy Sector” – contribution to design and coordination of stakeholder conference.

1998 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems And Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, DSB and the Danish Energy Agency. Analysis of environmental, economic, and financial consequences related to different organizational models under which DSB may involve in renewable power generation. Furthermore, assessment of legal and institutional conditions.

1997 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems And Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, Danish Energy Agency and Danish Institute of Technology (DTI Energy). Economic, financial and environmental analysis of gas fuelled and electric heat pumps for residential heating purposes.

1997 Thailand, International Energy Planning Expert, Danish Energy Agency and DANCED Involved in preparatory efforts to define a methodological and analytical framework for a Thai renewable energy study addressing the need to promote the commercial development of renewable energy generation in Thailand.

1997 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems and Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, Danish Energy Agency Analysis of governmental subsidy scheme for private consumers to convert existing individual heating systems to district heating. Analysis of the impact of different subsidy rates on the financial attractiveness as well as on the total subsidy amount. Assessment of financial and environmental impact for the scheme as a whole and for typical users.

1997 Albania, Capacity Building And Energy Modelling Expert, European Commission, PHARE Provision of short-term assistance under the EU PHARE project to the National Committee of Energy, Albania. Tasks included elaboration of energy planning models and tools as well as training of local experts in energy planning and energy modelling disciplines.

1997 Denmark, Energy Data Analysis Expert, Danish Energy Agency Evaluation of governmental subsidy scheme for private consumers to convert existing individual heating systems to district heating. Involved thorough analyses of consumers based on BBR-database (National Building Information Database) and Energidata (National Energy Demand and Supply Database). Assessment of financial, economic and environmental impact of scheme. Identification of impacts, problems and future potential for conversion.

1996 UK, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, USA, Poland and Hungary, International Energy Planning Expert, COGEN Europe, EU DGXII Assessment of the potential impact of the models proposed for Common Rules for a European Single Market in Electricity on the development of cogeneration, energy efficiency and environment in Europe (including central and eastern Europe). The project was implemented in collaboration with ILEX associates, UK.

1996 15 EU member states, Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, EU, DGXVII, The Altener programme Comparative analysis of connection charges and use-of-system charges for private renewable electricity generation in 15 EU member states.

1996 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems and Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, Danish Energy Agency A comparative economic cost-effectiveness analysis, analysing the dependency of seasonal fluctuation in production and pricing for a number of renewable energy technologies and natural gas technologies.

1996 Poland, Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, EU Phare POLIO - an energy-planning model for Poland: Responsible for the development of a LOTUS spreadsheet model with user-friendly interface and documentation for energy, environmental and economic analyses of different energy sector scenarios.

1996 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems and Website Expert, Danish Energy Agency and the Danish Council for Renewable Energy Renewable Energy in Denmark - status and action plan - The Internet Version: The Internet Version of “Renewable Energy in Denmark - status and action plan”. Electronic documents and design of home page on world-wide-web (WWW) for the Danish Council for Renewable Energy.

1995 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems and Policy Expert, Danish Energy Agency and the Danish Council for Renewable Energy Renewable Energy in Denmark - status and action plan: a short and popular version of the “Danish Action Plan for Renewable Energy 1995-97” prepared in 1994.

1995 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems and Policy Expert, Center for Energy and Development, "Sustainable Energy in Danish Aid to Developing Countries - strategies, activities and experiences: A description and analysis of DANIDA’s, Danish NGO’s and international organizations’ energy sector activities." Responsible for the analysis of DANIDA’s energy sector policy, project preparation guidelines and Environmental Impact Assessment guidelines, as well as an annex report on national and international experiences on including externalities in evaluation of energy projects.

1995 Bangladesh, Energy Information Systems Expert, DONG (Petrobangla) PETROBANGLA Consumption Database - a customer, meter and consumption database for the national oil and gas company in Bangladesh. Programmed in MS ACCESS with a user-friendly interface including analysis and reporting tools.

1995 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems Expert, Danish Energy Agency Compilation of an official Danish catalogue on renewable energy technologies. The catalogue is used for scenario analyses and cost-benefit analyses during preparation of the official Danish Energy Plan published in 1995.

1995 Nordic Countries; Sweden, Finland, Norway, Island and Denmark, International Energy Policy Expert, The Nordic Council of Ministers Survey on completed evaluations of energy efficiency programmes (meta-evaluation). The survey covers 40 Nordic energy efficiency programmes and more than 100 evaluation documents. Applied evaluation methodologies are critically analysed and recommendations for future evaluation practice are made.

1995 Albania, International Energy Planning Expert, EU PHARE Programme Short-term mission as technical expert; technical assistance in developing a national energy policy. Evaluation of existing computerized energy planning models. Training in the use of energy planning models.

1994 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems and Techno-Economic Energy Analysis and Modelling Expert, Danish Energy Agency Small-scale "bare-field" district heating and combined heat and power plants in Denmark: status report on existing and planned bare-field DH and CHP plants in Denmark including all natural gas-fired and biomass-fired small-scale CHP plants as well as biomass-fired DH plants. Energy, environmental, financial and economic analyses as well as sensitivity analyses of bare-field projects when subject to different and changing technical and financial conditions.

1994 Denmark, Danish Action Plan for Renewable Energy 1995-97, Renewable Energy Systems and Policy Expert, Danish Energy Agency and the Danish Council for Renewable Energy. A survey on renewable energy technologies in Denmark with respect to technology status, technology development, market conditions, etc. Responsible for the chapter on heat pumps and for chapter on comparative economic analysis, furthermore presented in the annex report: "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Renewable Energy Technologies and Calculation of CO2-emission Reduction Potentials".

1994 Denmark, Capacity Building And Techno-Economic Energy Analysis Modelling Expert, The Danish Society of Engineering Consultants Using biomass for heating purposes in large buildings: Elaboration of a training programme and documentation for engineers, comprising a possible framework for energy, environmental, and financial analyses on the use of biomass heating technologies in large buildings. Responsible for chapter on economic, financial and environmental analysis.

1994 Denmark, Techno-Economic Energy Analysis Modelling Expert TeCBA (Technology Cost-Benefit Assessment) - an energy planning model for the personal computer: Initiator and responsible for development of an EXCEL spreadsheet model with VISUAL BASIC user-interface and documentation for energy, environmental, financial and economic analyses of energy technologies, including graphical presentation of results.

1994 Denmark, Techno-Economic Energy Analysis Modelling Expert Danish Reference Scenario 1992 for ESM (the Energy Service Model): Compilation of a Danish demand side/supply side reference scenario (1992) using bottom-up methodology for RAMBØLL's energy planning model ESM (EXCEL spreadsheet).

1994 Denmark, Renewable Energy Systems And Techno-Economic Energy Analysis Modelling Expert, Danish Energy Agency Analysis of financial and environmental consequences when converting from electric heating appliances to electric heat pumps. Considered by the Danish Energy Agency in evaluation of their subsidy scheme on heat pumps.

1994 Latvia, Computer Expert, EU PHARE Programme Short-term mission. Responsible for purchase and installation of computer hardware and software in the project implementation unit in Riga. Formulation of a strategy concerning the use of computers with the Department of Energy. Servicing of existing equipment and user training.

1993-1994 Denmark, Heat Pumps - Technology, Finance, Economics and Environment, Renewable Energy Systems And Techno-Economic Energy Analysis Modelling Expert Danish Energy Agency An analysis of the actual and possible role of heat pumps in Denmark. Energy, environmental, financial and economic assessment of small and large electric and gas fired heat pumps in comparison with other heating technologies. Based on CO2 shadow prices, i.e. the economic cost per reduced ton of CO2, the energy systems are ranked according to priorities. Different scenarios are analysed and conditions for technology development and means of action are discussed.

1993 Denmark and Germany, Master's Thesis in International Energy Planning (ITP, International Technology Planning, M.Sc. Eng.), Monograph, "The Quest for Fire" (In Danish: "Kampen om Ilden").

1992 Denmark and Zimbabwe, Energy Planner (trainee), The Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Study, Risø National Laboratories. Affiliated to Risø's activities in Zimbabwe as a trainee, including 3-month field research in Zimbabwe in collaboration with the Southern Center for Energy and Environment. Primary tasks included data compilation, data analyses, including scenario building on LEAP, two comprehensive energy audits.

1991 Nepal, Energy Planner (trainee), Save the Children, USA and Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. Affiliated with the RECAST center at Tribhuvan Universityat on a "Save the Children" project developing efficient fuel-wood-fired cooking stoves, including 2-month field research in Nepal. Primary tasks included stove design and manufacturing, laboratory tests, evaluation of already implemented stove project, including user training and in-field stove tests.