On Monday, May 11th, Professor of Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) Dr. Mette Helene Bjørndal gave a public lecture at ISET conference hall. Prof. Bjørndal held the presentation titled “Insights into the Nordic Energy Market”. The main aspects of the presentation was to review structure, main characteristics of Nordic power market and peculiarities of its integration into other European electricity markets.
Prof. Bjørndal started her presentation by introducing some basic characteristics of power sectors of Scandinavian countries. She covered some issues of the market design, its components, and architecture. Prof. Bjørndal compared integrated and unbundled systems by providing examples and commented on how unbundling was done in Scandinavia.
On Sunday, May 3rd, ISET team participated in worldwide charity event “Wings for Life” that was held in the region of Kakheti, East Georgia in order to contribute to the global campaign and express solidarity to the people with spinal cord injury who cannot run. In total, all ISETers ran more than 50 kilometers!
Wings for life is an international non-profit spinal cord research foundation that aims to find a cure for spinal cord injury. The organization funds world-class scientific research and clinical trials all around the world aimed at healing the above-mentioned disease.
The World Run 2015 was held in 35 different locations around the globe, according to the official statistics published by the organization,