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Research Centre

Centre for Energy Research

NUPI’s Centre for Energy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre covering international relations and economic issues related to the field of energy. The centre was originally established as the Energy programme in 2006, and brings together researchers from different parts of NUPI working on energy issues.

The centre's objective is to be a forum for analysis of international energy issues, as well as Norway’s role on the international energy arena. It is to function as a meeting place for international actors working on energy related questions, and to facilitate debates on international energy policies.

External resources:

Energy and Climate Change in ASEAN

News

Chinese and Japanese investments in Myanmar – what determines their environmental friendliness?
24 Jun 2021
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
What determines whether companies investing in developing countries proceed in an environmentally friendly way? A new article published at level 2 by researchers at Harvard...
Asia Internasjonale investeringer Climate Energy
Why lack of will to limit climate change amongst ASEAN states?
12 Apr 2021
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
The countries of Southeast Asia are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Why, then, has there been so little will to take action? This paradox is the...
Asia Energy Climate
How Covid-19 affects sustainable energy transitions
20 Oct 2020
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
Less flying. More biking. More staying at home, also when you are working. A new article by nine renowned energy experts explains how the pandemic may change the global energy...
Pandemier Energy Climate
How the green transition will lead to a more peaceful world
17 Apr 2020
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
The green transition will undoubtedly affect geopolitics. But how? NUPI researchers have taken a systematic look at 204 publications in the first meta-review on the field...
Energy Climate Utenrikspolitikk
Key climate research severely underfunded
7 Jan 2020
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
Researchers from NUPI and the University of Sussex analysed USD 1.3 trillion of research funding. From 1990 to 2018 only 0.12% of the funding was spent on a critical issue:...
Styring Climate Energy
The green transition: Who will be the geopolitical winners – and losers?
3 Dec 2019
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
This is the main question behind a new index developed by an international research team led by NUPI’s Indra Øverland.
Energy Climate Trade International economics Economic growth
Debunking renewable energy myths
11 Sep 2019
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
Indra Øverland has examined four assumptions about renewable energy and geopolitics.
Climate Energy Utenrikspolitikk Economic growth Trade
The Russia Conference: Cold Peace in the Arctic?
14 Sep 2018
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
On September 14, NUPI’s Russia Conference took place in Oslo. Couldn’t be there? Watch the entire event, including Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide's key note speech,...
The Arctic Russia and Eurasia Utenrikspolitikk Europe North America Energy Diplomacy International organizations Climate
NEW ARTICLE: The International Renewable Energy Agency has a massive potential
21 Jun 2018
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
So how is the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), founded in 2009, doing?
Energy Climate
Public brainpower critical for managing natural resources
18 Dec 2017
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
A new book edited by NUPI researcher Indra Øverland examines how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect the management of oil and gas resources.
Energy Styring
Renewables change geopolitics

23 Jun 2017
In cooperation with IRENA, Harvard University and Columbia University, NUPI this week publish a report exploring the opportunities and challenges renewables have on geopolitics.
Energy International economics
Green future – risks and opportunities
23 Mar 2017
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
NUPI has partnered with Columbia University and Harvard University.
Energy Climate Utenrikspolitikk Styring International organizations
ExxonMobil & Rosneft: Trump renews the bromance?
10 Mar 2017
- - Indra Overland
Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson is secretary of state in the USA. That may ease the tension in the country's relationship with Russia.
Energy Russia and Eurasia North America

Publications

Publication : Academic article
Environmental performance of foreign firms: Chinese and Japanese firms in Myanmar
2021
- - Indra Overland
- - Roman Vakulchuk
Publication : Chapter

Russian Grand Strategy and Energy Resources: The Asian Dimension
Publication : Academic article
The ASEAN climate and energy paradox
2021
Publication : Academic article
Why Choose to Cycle in a Low-Income Country?
2020
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Report
The Philippines: How to Leapfrog from a Complicated Renewable Energy Sector to an Attractive One
2020
Publication : Report
Singapore: How to Attract More Investment in Renewable Energy?
2020
Publication : Report
Thailand: Improving the Business Climate for Renewable Energy Investment
2020
Publication : Report
Vietnam: Six Ways to Keep Up the Renewable Energy Investment Success
2020
- - Indra Overland
- - Haakon Fossum Sagbakken
Publication : Report
Russian energy and grand strategy
2020
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : Report
Brunei Darussalam: How to Build an Investment Climate for Renewable Energy?
2020
Publication : Academic monograph

Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World: The Challenge of Change
Publication : Report
Cambodia: Five Actions to Improve the Business Climate for Renewable Energy Investment
2020
Publication : Report
Myanmar: How to Become an Attractive Destination for Renewable Energy Investment?
2020
Publication : Report
Malaysia: How to Scale Up Investment in Renewable Energy
2020
Publication : Report
Lao PDR: How to Attract More Investment in Small-Scale Renewable Energy?
2020
Publication : Report
Indonesia: How to Boost Investment in Renewable Energy
2020
- - Indra Overland
- - Haakon Fossum Sagbakken
Publication : Editorial
Unexplored resources for EU Arctic policy: Energy, oceans and space
2020
- - Elana Wilson Rowe
Publication : Popular scientific lecture

Strategic dimension of Russian energy policy
Publication : Academic article

Why Choose to Cycle in a Middle-Income Country?

2020
Publication : Academic lecture

Norway as an anergy actor in Europe and in the Baltic Sea region
Publication : Academic article
The missallocation of climate research funding
2020
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Academic article
The geopolitics of renewables: New board, new game
2020
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Russian Renewable Energy: Regulations and outcomes
Publication : Academic article
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen
2020
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Academic article
Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review
2020
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Academic article
The GeGaLo index: Geopolitical gains and losses after energy transition
2019
Publication : Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT)
Renewable Energy Policies of the Central Asian Countries
2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT)
Solar Power Potential of the Central Asian Countries
2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT)
Wind Power Potential of the Central Asian Countries
2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT)
Hydropower Potential of the Central Asian Countries
2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT)
BRI in Central Asia: Energy Connectivity Projects
2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT)
BRI in Central Asia: Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Extraction and Processing Projects
2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Introduction: The EU and the Changing (Geo)Politics of Energy in Europe
2019
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
- - Ole Gunnar Austvik
Publication
EU climate and energy policy: new challenges for old energy suppliers
2018
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
The geopolitics of renewable energy: Debunking four emerging myths
2018
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
A Place in the Sun? IRENA’s Position in the Global Energy Governance Landscape
2018
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ANTOLOGI

Public Brainpower: Civil Society and Natural Resource Management

2018
Publication
Kazakhstan: Civil Society and Natural Resource Policy in Kazakhstan
2018
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
Publication : NUPI Report
Impact of Climate Change on ASEAN International Affairs: Risk and Opportunity Multiplier
2017
- - Indra Overland
- - Roman Vakulchuk
Publication
The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy
2017
- - Indra Overland
- - Roman Vakulchuk
Publication
Myanmars Attractiveness for Investment in the Energy Sector: A Comparative International Perspective
2017
- - Indra Overland
- - Roman Vakulchuk
Publication
Ranking Oil, Gas and Mining Companies on Indigenous Rights in the Arctic
2016
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL

Arctic petroleum's community impacts: Local perceptions from Hammerfest, Norway

2016
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Public Administration Reform and Its Implications for Foreign Petroleum Companies in Kazakhstan
2016
- - Roman Vakulchuk
Publication : ARTIKKEL
The Energy Union and Security-of-Gas-Supply
2016
- - Ole Gunnar Austvik
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Energy: The Missing Link in Globalization
2016
- - Indra Overland
Publication
The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Gazprom Encounters EU Regulation
2017
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Russia–EU Energy Relations: from Complementarity to Distrust?
2016
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ANTOLOGI

EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance: Global and Local Challenges and Responses

2016
Publication
Engergy Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Regional coordination and and management of interdependencies
2015
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
Future Petroleum Geopolitics: Consequences of Climate Policy and Unconventional Oil and Gas
2015
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Joining Rosneft in the Sea of Okhotsk: Statoil's Pivot to Asia?
2015
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Financial Sanctions Impact Russian Oil, Equipment Export Ban's Effects Limited
2015
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ANTOLOGI

International Arctic Petroleum Cooperation: Barents Sea Scenarios

2015
Publication
Has the EU Learnt from the Ukraine Crisis? Changes to Security, Energy and Migration Governance
2015
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
The Power to Influence Europe? Russia’s Grand Gas Strategy, PISM Strategic File 6(69)
2015
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Macht aus der Pipeline: Russlands Energiepolitik und die EU
2015
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Energy in the neighborhood: Russian and EU perspectives and policies
2015
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
Innovation, networks and energy governance: The case of shale gas, GR:EEN Policy Brief 22
2014
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
Petroleum revenue and Caspian security, conflict driver or means of conflict resolution
2014
- - Indra Overland
Publication
How does the search for energy security affect EU policies in other issue-areas? GR:EEN Policy Brief 23
2014
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
The Norwegian Energy Security Debate : Domestic and International Dimensions
2014
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
Russia’s External Energy Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges until 2030
2014
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ANTOLOGI

Russian Energy in a Changing World: What is the Outlook for the Hydrocarbons Superpower

2013
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Gazprom vs. other Russian gas producers: The evolution of the Russian gas sector
2013
- - Indra Overland
- - Alesia Prachakova (Former employee)
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Rosneft’s offshore partnerships: the re-opening of the Russian petroleum frontier?
2013
- - Indra Overland
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Gas, Price, and Russia's Modernization
2013
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Strategie energetyczne Rosji i Norwegii: podobieństwa i różnice (Energy strategies of Russia and Norway: similarities and differences)
2012
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication
Russian External Energy Strategy: Opportunities and Constraints
2012
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Natural Gas and CO2 Price Variation: Impact on the Relative Cost-Efficiency of LNG and Pipelines
2012
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Challenges to Russia's post-Rao UES energy paradigm: a window of opportunity for sustainable market development
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Subsidised Energy and Hesitant Elites in Russia
2012
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Nord Stream: Globalization in the Pipeline
2011
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Russlands eksterne energistrategi : utfordringer og muligheter
2011
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Pricing Pain: Social Discontent and Political Willpower in Russia's Gas Sector
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
La politique énergétique de la Russie en Arctique
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Kooperation statt Konfrontation: Štokman, Jamal und Russlands Energiepolitik in der Arktis
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Close Encounters: Russian Policymaking and International Oil Companies
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
A limited toolbox: Explaining the constraints on Russia’s foreign energy policy
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Russia and the Formation of a Gas Cartel
2011
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Upstream Opportunities in Russia and Central Asia
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : SHORTCOMM
The Surge in Unconventional Gas: Implications for Russian Export Strategies
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
New Narratives on Renewable Energy Policy
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ANTOLOGI

Caspian Energy Politics

2010
Publication : ARTIKKEL
The South Stream versus Nabucco Pipeline Race: Geopolitical and Economic (Ir)rationales and Political Stakes in Mega-projects
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Reducing Energy Subsidies in China, India and Russia: Dilemmas for Decision Makers
2010
- - Indra Overland
- - Marc Lanteigne
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Russia's Arctic energy policy
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
The Siberian Curse: A Blessing in Disguise for Renewable Energy?
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : MONOGRAFI
The Caspian Sea Region towards 2025
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication : ARTIKKEL
Subsidies for fossil fuels and climate change: a comparative perspective
2010
- - Indra Overland
Publication
Strategic decision making in Russian energy sector: The Case of Nord Stream
2010
- - Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publication : MONOGRAFI
Russian Renewable Energy: The Potential for International Cooperation
2009
- - Indra Overland
Publication : NUPI Policy Brief

Nord Stream 2: policy dilemmas and the future of EU gas market

2016

Projects

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Is this Russia's Kodak moment? Russian perspectives on the energy transition (KODAK)

2019 - 2022 (Ongoing)

This project will examine whether Russian energy actors are aware of the possibility of swift decarbonization of the global energy supply, what consequences they think it would have for demand for Russian...

Climate Energy Russia and Eurasia
Research project

Science and Business in Arctic Environmental Governance (POLGOV)

2016 - 2019 (Completed)

We know little about the role of science and business actors in contemporary Arctic governance. This project seeks to address this gap.

Russia and Eurasia Energy Diplomacy Utenrikspolitikk Europe North America The Arctic
Research project

Renewable Energy and Geopolitics

2016 - 2017 (Completed)

The project examines the geopolitical consequences of a large-scale transition to renewable energy, both in terms of the fading of old energy and geopolitical patterns and systems and the emergence of...

Energy Security policy Terrorisme og ekstremisme Conflict resolution Climate Development policy
Research project

Global management of energy areas in a globalized world. (Energistyring)

2015 - 2017 (Completed)

This project aims to explore how structural changes in the surroundings, in form of increased integration between different energy sources and regions, is managed by international organizations.

Climate Energy International organizations