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New magazine!<br />
36<br />
lost 19 000<br />
kilograms<br />
Great result from joint diet<br />
at the main office<br />
Shaking hands<br />
across borders<br />
This is the “new” <strong>Statkraft</strong>. We have<br />
spoken to new colleagues in Germany,<br />
Sweden and Wales<br />
Blown to<br />
success<br />
Dalen set a wind<br />
power record.<br />
Anyone better?<br />
pages of powerful<br />
reading<br />
Hunter in<br />
Southeast<br />
Europe<br />
Tima Iyer is <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s<br />
frontwoman in a<br />
new market<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway’s<br />
most powerful<br />
Operations technician Terje Brandt is working in some of<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway’s most powerful natural scenery – Svartisen<br />
A magazine for people in <strong>Statkraft</strong> I <strong>No</strong>. 1 <strong>2009</strong>
Editorial<br />
NO 1. <strong>2009</strong><br />
See<br />
more pictures<br />
from Svartisen!<br />
Contents<br />
04-05 30 per cent more power<br />
New Leirfossene power plant gets more power<br />
from every drop – to everyone’s benefit.<br />
pages 10-15<br />
06-07 Lost 19 000 kilos<br />
The main office has gone on a diet under the<br />
auspices of Kontorservice – with great results.<br />
08-09 Fought his way back<br />
Mountaineer Jamie Andrew has no arms or legs,<br />
but was an inspiration to all at the <strong>No</strong>bel seminar.<br />
10-15 <strong>No</strong>rway’s most powerful<br />
Terje Brandt and the rest of the crew in Glomfjord<br />
work in what might be <strong>No</strong>rway’s most beautiful<br />
surroundings. Enjoy the pictures!<br />
16-17 Current affairs in <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
Read more about the financial crisis, a powerful<br />
birthday boy and the CO2 portal which generates<br />
clean power in Honduras.<br />
18-23 Shaking hands across borders<br />
People & Power has made a journalistic tour<br />
following the E.ON agreement.<br />
24-25 Technology & environment<br />
The eagle gets help against windmills, power<br />
station becomes hatching station and much more.<br />
26-27 We eat lunch with…<br />
… the employees at Dalen. Can they comply with<br />
the manual wind power standard?<br />
Welcome to “new <strong>Statkraft</strong>”<br />
28-29 “The objective is zero injuries”<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s safety philosophy has led to a<br />
continued decrease in the number of injuries.<br />
30-33 Hunter in Southeast Europe<br />
Tima Iyer (48) is hunting in new markets – with a<br />
working day which almost never ends.<br />
The year <strong>2009</strong> has already become a key part of <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
lore. We start the year with so much renewal and growth that<br />
we might as well call ourselves “new <strong>Statkraft</strong>”. During the<br />
last year, <strong>Statkraft</strong> has acquired about 500 new employees and<br />
increased the production capacity by more than 20 per cent.<br />
About 220 new employees in the group during the last<br />
year, and just as many again from 1 January in Germany, the<br />
UK and Sweden, as well as 60 new employees in Trondheim<br />
Energi Kraft, is a growth which reinvigorates and strengthens<br />
us significantly. You are all very welcome – we have<br />
great expectations for our future accomplishments.<br />
Through the E.ON agreement, we have taken over 61<br />
power and district heating plants, totaling 2500 megawatts,<br />
in Sweden, Germany and the UK. This means that<br />
one fourth of our production capacity is now outside of<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway, and we have become Europe’s largest producer of<br />
renewable energy. This is a position which provides major<br />
opportunities for further expansion in more countries –<br />
with the emphasis on environmentally friendly solutions.<br />
We have the competence and weight needed to make<br />
broad investments in clean energy, broad as regards both<br />
forms of energy and markets. Our new strategy sets high<br />
goals for our future contribution: It paves the way for<br />
significant investments – in hydropower, wind power, gas<br />
power and other renewable forms of energy. We will<br />
invest in <strong>No</strong>rway, Europe and the rest of the world.<br />
Part of the renewal and the adaptation of the role<br />
as “new <strong>Statkraft</strong>” is our brand new in-house magazine<br />
People & Power. The magazine will be published<br />
four times each year in English, German, Swedish and<br />
<strong>No</strong>rweg ian. Our editorial staff aims to present a crosssection<br />
of our people and activities, both present and future.<br />
Have a good read – and a happy new year!<br />
Bård Mikkelsen CEO<br />
Photo Dag Spant<br />
34-35 New energy in <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
Do you know any of the new faces?<br />
Editor-in-chief: Ragnvald Nærø<br />
Editor: Hanne Aaberg<br />
hanne.aaberg@statkraft.com<br />
On the editorial staff: Birger Baug, Irene<br />
MacCallum, Stein Morch, Lars Magnus Günther,<br />
Merete Knain, Anne Joeken, Ingunn Solli, Linn Bakke,<br />
Anne Lise Aakervik, Cato Gjertsen.<br />
Design and production: Dinamo Red.<br />
Cover photo: Dag Spant<br />
Print: RK Grafisk AS<br />
Copies printed: 3500<br />
Feel free to contribute to: pp@statkraft.com<br />
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people & power 3
Current<br />
Leirfossene power plant<br />
More power in each drop<br />
The new Leirfossene power plant in Sjetnemarka in Trondheim<br />
replaces two old power plants. The plant will yield 30 per cent<br />
more power with the same amount of water.<br />
Text Yvonne Dybwad photo Mikal Sveen<br />
FActs<br />
The power plant lies underground west<br />
of Nidelva, with the intake in the existing<br />
basis at the Øvre Leirfoss waterfall. The<br />
water is led in a shaft and tunnel down to the<br />
power station and on through a 1.5 km long<br />
discharge tunnel.<br />
Two small units will be installed in the old<br />
power plants to exploit the stipulated minimum<br />
waterflow of 10 cubic metres per second<br />
in the river distance between the aggregates.<br />
The construction of the power plant<br />
started in the summer of 2006, and has cost<br />
slightly less than NOK 400 million.<br />
The new power plant will produce 193<br />
GWh annually, which covers the electricity<br />
consumption of about 10 000 households.<br />
Following an intense<br />
construction period,<br />
new Leirfossene<br />
has become a top<br />
modern power plant.<br />
The old power plants Øvre<br />
Leirfoss and Nedre Leirfoss<br />
were built in 1901<br />
and 1910, respectively, and<br />
have produced electricity for<br />
generations of Trond heimers.<br />
However, as the years<br />
progressed, the power plants<br />
became less and less reliable and<br />
the risk of breakdown increased.<br />
“We had to do something,” states managing<br />
director of Trondheim Energi Kraft, Leif <strong>No</strong>rdseth.<br />
“We could have chosen to overhaul the<br />
old machines and buildings completely, but<br />
we preferred to build a modern facility under<br />
the ground, as is the common method for<br />
new power plants in <strong>No</strong>rway.”<br />
More power, less water lost. The result<br />
is noticeable. The new units have resulted<br />
in an increased effect, and they can also<br />
handle more water then the two old plants.<br />
“Previously, we had to divert flood water from<br />
the Selbusjøen lake past the two power<br />
plants. We can now send more of the flood<br />
water through the Leirfossene waterfalls.<br />
This gives us the ability to produce more<br />
power and lose less water than before,”<br />
explains power plant manager Per Morten<br />
Aunemo, responsible for the operation of<br />
Leirfossene power plant and other facilities.<br />
According to Aunemo, the annual production<br />
is calculated to increase by about 50 GWh,<br />
from 143 to about 193 GWh.<br />
Good energy economy sense. Managing<br />
director Leif <strong>No</strong>rdseth is as happy as<br />
can be: “This is a good example of modern<br />
Power station manager<br />
Per Morten Aunemo<br />
Extremely<br />
efficient<br />
The completion was celebrated<br />
in a traditional manner.<br />
technology and solutions<br />
yielding more renewable<br />
energy from existing power<br />
plants and waterways,”<br />
says <strong>No</strong>rdseth. He points<br />
out that the increase of<br />
the energy efficiency of the<br />
plants at Leirfossene has been<br />
achieved without new, major interventions<br />
in the landscape. “We are<br />
very proud of and happy with this project.<br />
It is a challenge to build in the bedrock<br />
below a residential area, but the plant has<br />
been completed on time and budget. It will<br />
contribute to increased profitability when<br />
completed,” says <strong>No</strong>rdseth.<br />
Increasing efficiency is profitable.<br />
Trondheim Energi Kraft has no further construction<br />
plans in the near future, but is considering<br />
upgrading and expanding other power<br />
plants in their waterways. The construction<br />
of small power plants is being considered<br />
continuously. “In 2008, we have installed a<br />
small power plant in a small drainage tunnel<br />
at the Sylsjø lake in Sweden, where we have<br />
drained water for 57 years. By installing a<br />
power plant there, we can produce electricity<br />
while draining off water. This utilizes the<br />
system better than before,” says <strong>No</strong>rdseth.<br />
He emphasizes that projects which were not<br />
profitable earlier, are now profitable.<br />
“Many replace old power stations with new,<br />
and find better ways of exploiting existing<br />
systems. On a national level, this will improve<br />
the energy balance, while maintaining<br />
the production of clean power, and what<br />
could be better?” asks <strong>No</strong>rdseth.<br />
Happy environmentalists<br />
Friends of the<br />
Earth <strong>No</strong>rway in<br />
Sør-Trøndelag County<br />
believes that the Leirfoss<br />
development sets a great<br />
example. “We are very<br />
positive to the Leirfoss<br />
development. Trondheim<br />
Energi Kraft has managed<br />
to produce more<br />
power without harming<br />
nature, while exploiting<br />
the existing power plant<br />
in a very good way,”<br />
says chair of the board<br />
in Friends of the Earth<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway in Sør-Trøndelag<br />
County, Steinar Nygaard.<br />
He believes the development<br />
is a positive measure,<br />
and that more power<br />
companies should follow<br />
Trondheim Energi Kraft’s<br />
example. “Friends of the<br />
Earth <strong>No</strong>rway believe that<br />
there lies a great potential<br />
in making existing power<br />
plants more efficient,”<br />
says Nygaard.<br />
The salmon and sea trout<br />
should also benefit from<br />
the development. A prestudy<br />
from NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet<br />
concludes<br />
that the development<br />
of Leirfossene will not<br />
have any significant<br />
conse quences for the<br />
salmon and sea trout<br />
in the Nidelva river. The<br />
exception is some minor<br />
problems just below and<br />
above the power plant.<br />
“Trondheim Energi Kraft is<br />
working to improve conditions<br />
and reduce any<br />
harmful effects on both<br />
sites,” says fish biologist<br />
and associate professor<br />
Jan Ivar Koksvik at NTNU<br />
Vitenskapsmuseet.<br />
Beautiful power plant in Ullensvang<br />
Småkraft’s latest addition – Ytre Alsåker power plant in Ullensvang municipality<br />
in Hordaland – came online in late September. “This is a great plant and<br />
it has been met with a lot of positive attention. Both locals and visitors consider<br />
the power plant to be positive for the environment. The fact that it has become a<br />
beautiful plant, well adapted and with minimal interventions in nature, is greatly<br />
appreciated,” says Per Mælen, one of four landowners at Alsåker power plant.<br />
Following a construction period, the plant was ready to come online on Monday<br />
29 September. Småkraft’s own architect, Paal Kahrs, has placed the power<br />
station in a spectacular location in the middle of the Alsåker waterfall. The construction<br />
has taken place with great care and minimal intervention in the natural<br />
surroundings. The power plant has a capacity of 20 GWh in a normal year, and<br />
utilises a height difference of 216 metres.<br />
3500 students enlightened in Trondheim<br />
For the sixth year running, the Contractor department in Trondheim<br />
Energi Nett participated at Fagopplæringsdagene (vocational training days) held<br />
by the vocational training offices in Sør-Trøndelag County. Almost 3500 14 to<br />
15-year-old students from all over the county visited the event. Trainees Anders<br />
Østby, Fredrik Loeng, Ali J. Bakhshi and Thomas Hansen represented Trondheim<br />
Energi Nett on the stand. They spoke to students about the realities of the profession<br />
and praised Trondheim Energi as an employer. In addition, they brought<br />
with them a five-metre climbing pole, where all the 15-year-olds could have a go.<br />
An important choice is facing many of the students on 1 March, which is the<br />
application deadline for upper secondary schools. “We hope that these days<br />
can remove some doubts from the minds of applicants, enabling them to make<br />
the right choice,” says Arve Haugan, project manager for Fagopplæringsdagene.<br />
70-80<br />
Waste energy contributes<br />
70-80 per cent of the district<br />
heating produced in Trondheim.<br />
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current<br />
Dieting<br />
on the menu<br />
Last year, every employee at the main office produced one<br />
kilogram of waste every day. By removing the disposable packaging<br />
in the canteen, Kontorservice has managed to halve the<br />
amount of waste per employee. Really a successful diet!<br />
Text and photos Yvonne Dybwad<br />
Food focus<br />
on the<br />
environment<br />
As a result of the<br />
environmental<br />
effort from Kontorservice,<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s head office<br />
has Scandinavia’s first<br />
canteen awarded the<br />
Svane eco-label!<br />
In the summer of 2007, Kontorservice<br />
prepared its own ambitious<br />
environmental plan, which aims to<br />
make <strong>Statkraft</strong> more eco-friendly and its<br />
employees more aware of green issues.<br />
The work towards achieving the Svane<br />
eco-label became a useful tool in this,<br />
and the reduced waste generation was<br />
one of many positive measures.<br />
Kontorservice weighed all waste<br />
going out, divided it by the number of<br />
employees and were shocked at what<br />
they found: One kilogram of waste per<br />
employee. Per day!<br />
“That was when we decided to launch<br />
this year’s diet. The canteen seemed<br />
like a natural place to start,” says<br />
section manager Annette Molden.<br />
Nineteen tonnes of waste from<br />
single-use products. The canteen<br />
removed all single-use products and<br />
packaging, reducing the amount of<br />
waste by 43 per cent. Neither Annette<br />
Molden nor the employees had dared<br />
believe that the results would be so good.<br />
“We are in reality speaking about 19<br />
tonnes of disposable packaging per<br />
year. We have a hard time believing it<br />
ourselves,” smiles Molden.<br />
Greater ambitions. The Svane<br />
label awarded to the canteen has also<br />
generated other positive measures. The<br />
brand requires use of local food, and<br />
that the main ingredients served are<br />
grown using sustainable methods.<br />
“Our dream is to help make green<br />
think ing part of the mentality for both<br />
the office operations and everyone<br />
in the group,” says Annette Molden<br />
enthusiastically.<br />
Planning more<br />
Kontorservice is not resting on<br />
its laurels. Here is a list of measures<br />
which have either been<br />
implemented or are underway:<br />
Measure: Reduce waste and garbage<br />
at the main office, through the<br />
introduction of copying on both sides<br />
of each sheet and other measures.<br />
Status: Implemented<br />
Result: Copying on both sides of the<br />
sheet will reduce waste generation<br />
by at least 5 tonnes in 2008. New<br />
measurements will be taken when all<br />
print-outs are linked directly to the<br />
use of the access card.<br />
Measure: Make video conferences<br />
easily available to reduce travel.<br />
Status: Underway.<br />
Result: Just started.<br />
Measure: Introduce eco-friendly<br />
office supplies, detergents and<br />
equipment.<br />
Status: Implemented.<br />
Result: In line with the environmental<br />
plan.<br />
Measure: Reduce the number of<br />
machines, i.e. copiers and printers.<br />
Status: Implemented.<br />
Result: In line with the environmental<br />
plan.<br />
Measure: Provide organically<br />
grown fruit at the main office.<br />
Status: Implemented.<br />
Result: 200 kg of organically grown<br />
fruit is delivered to <strong>Statkraft</strong> Lilleaker<br />
every week.<br />
Measure: Svane award for <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s<br />
printing centre at Lilleaker.<br />
Status: Underway.<br />
Result: Being processed.<br />
Measure: Introduce waste sorting<br />
stations on every floor to improve<br />
waste handling at the main office.<br />
Status: Underway.<br />
Result: Will be introduced in <strong>2009</strong>, in<br />
line with the environmental plan.<br />
Measure: Set environmental requirements<br />
for suppliers.<br />
Status: Underway.<br />
Result: Being processed. For example,<br />
all new standard office furniture will<br />
be Svane labelled.<br />
Measure: Compare our own environmental<br />
results with comparable<br />
companies in <strong>No</strong>rway and Europe.<br />
Status: Underway.<br />
Result: Will be implemented during <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
The employees in Kontorservice are responsible for great environmental<br />
results in the canteen. From the back, left: Erling Sundnes,<br />
Øyvind Sandberg, Øystein Anker Sørensen, Torill Andersen, Marianne<br />
Stræte, Unni Sletta, Randi Elstad. From the left, front: Annette<br />
Molden, Cathrine Gabrielsen, Tove Tverberg and Britt Ghebrezadick.<br />
Common environment project<br />
How do you make all the Kontorservice staff take the<br />
time to sit down together? Ask them to formulate theirs<br />
own vision and environment plan.<br />
“We in Kontorservice work on servicing other departments.<br />
It is hectic and fun, but we rarely have a chance to sit down<br />
together,” says section manager Annette Molden.<br />
She wanted to do something about this, and gathered all her<br />
employees for a seminar where they developed a vision for their<br />
department: “We shall be the leading office administration in<br />
Europe as regards environmental management and ecology”.<br />
This is a vision we can unite under, making it easier to make<br />
our small contribution towards making <strong>Statkraft</strong> achieve<br />
its overall vision of being the best in Europe on renewable<br />
energy,” says Molden.<br />
The new vision became the foundation for an environmental<br />
plan which was completed in the summer of 2007. Several<br />
measures have been implemented (see fact box to the left),<br />
and more are underway.<br />
“We have already achieved a great deal and are looking<br />
forward to continuing. This project has really generated<br />
enthusiasm and a sense of togetherness and pride among<br />
Kontorservice’s employees,” says Annette Molden proudly.<br />
”By using larger units<br />
instead of disposable<br />
packaging, we save 19<br />
tonnes of waste per year,”<br />
boasts section manager<br />
Annette Molden and Tord<br />
Huse from ISS.<br />
This is Kontorservice<br />
Kontorservice is an HR department responsible for:<br />
Internal operations and maintenance, including operative<br />
responsibility for fire safety and access control.<br />
Cleaning and canteen services.<br />
Common services such as mail delivery, printing centre<br />
(which produces internal printed matters), main office<br />
reception and switchboard for the main office and the regions.<br />
Meeting rooms, including audiovisual equipment and video conferences.<br />
Purchases to the main office, including office furniture, common area fittings<br />
and furniture, coffee machines, mobile telephones, plants and printers.<br />
19 000<br />
In one year, <strong>Statkraft</strong> has reduced<br />
the amount of disposable packaging<br />
waste by 19 000 kilograms –<br />
all due to the canteen project.<br />
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people & power 7
Current<br />
Jamie Andrew<br />
The victor<br />
“You can be positive about the future” is more than just the name of<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s new ad campaign. To Jamie Andrew, it is an ethos which<br />
helps him overcome enormous obstacles every day.<br />
Henning Villanger and<br />
Merete Knain were impressed<br />
by the iron will<br />
of Jamie Andrews.<br />
<strong>No</strong>bel and <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
Scarlett Johansson, Michael<br />
Caine and an army of international<br />
stars. <strong>Statkraft</strong> is a key<br />
sponsor of the internationally<br />
successful <strong>No</strong>bel Peace<br />
Prize Concert.<br />
Text Cato Gjertsen photo Hans Fredrik Asbjørnsen<br />
The head of the UN weapon inspectorate,<br />
Hans Blix, was one of many prominent<br />
speakers at <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s <strong>No</strong>bel seminar.<br />
Jamie Andrew<br />
has managed an<br />
incredible feat:<br />
Coming back from<br />
losing his feet and<br />
hands.<br />
I was completely<br />
unprepared for<br />
having my arms and legs<br />
amputated. When I woke<br />
up and understood the<br />
situation, I wished I had<br />
died up on the mountain.<br />
Jamie Andrew<br />
A<br />
snowstorm forced Jamie<br />
Andrew and his best friend<br />
to spend five days on a<br />
4000-metre mountain top in the<br />
Alps in 1999. When the rescue helicopter<br />
finally arrived, Jamie’s friend<br />
was dead and Jamie had severe<br />
frost injuries all over his body. The<br />
doctors at the hospital were forced to<br />
amputate both legs below the knees<br />
and both arms below the elbows.<br />
Wanted to die. During the <strong>No</strong>bel<br />
seminar at <strong>Statkraft</strong> in December, Jamie<br />
spoke about his experiences and<br />
how they affected him as a person.<br />
“I was completely unprepared for<br />
having my feet and hands amputated.<br />
When I awoke and understood<br />
the situation, I wished I had died<br />
up on the mountain. I could not see<br />
how I could live a meaningful life.<br />
However, there were many people<br />
around me who loved me, and I<br />
slowly, but surely started preparing<br />
for my new life,” says Jamie.<br />
He chose to approach this new<br />
life situation as a problem to be<br />
solved, just like he used to approach<br />
summits. If he were to have any<br />
chance of scaling this new, gigantic<br />
challenge, he realized that he<br />
had to follow two rules. The<br />
first was that he did not have<br />
to go any road alone. He had<br />
friends, family and medical<br />
personnel who were<br />
always there for<br />
him. He had to use<br />
that help, even if<br />
he realized that<br />
there would be<br />
many situations<br />
where his pride<br />
could get in the<br />
way. The second<br />
rule was that the road<br />
to his new life would<br />
not be just one big<br />
challenge.<br />
“A role model for everyone”<br />
Henning Villanger, Finance<br />
Manager, Industrial Ownership Interests,<br />
is very impressed with Jamie<br />
Andrew’s achievements. Villanger<br />
and his colleague Merete Knain, communications<br />
manager at Trondheim<br />
Energi, were eager to give the Scot<br />
positive feedback.<br />
“First of all, I feel that Jamie has<br />
an incredibly strong story. He is really<br />
a role model, and fully understanding<br />
his situation is impossible. Some of<br />
the emotions he experienced during<br />
“I set many small goals for each<br />
day. If the nurse brushed my<br />
teeth one day, I decided that<br />
I would manage it on my own<br />
the next. Whether it took 20<br />
minutes or two hours did not<br />
matter. I had plenty of<br />
time and the goals I set<br />
were always attainable,”<br />
says Jamie.<br />
From victory to victory.<br />
As the sense of<br />
mastering the situation<br />
increased, so did the difficulty<br />
of the goals he set.<br />
First, Jamie aimed to learn<br />
to walk with his prosthetic<br />
legs. Later, the goal became<br />
the expedition and later must have<br />
been extreme. How he lives his life in<br />
spite of the injuries says a lot about<br />
him as a person,” says Villanger, and<br />
Knain adds:<br />
“Jamie’s experiences really give a<br />
perspective to one’s own problems.<br />
It is quite embarrassing when you<br />
think of how just small everyday<br />
things can make you complain. If<br />
Jamie can attain all his goals, there<br />
is no reason that we should not do<br />
the same,” says Knain.<br />
to complete the London Marathon.<br />
After a few years, Jamie started<br />
climbing again, and he has been on<br />
Kilimanjaro and back in the area of<br />
the Alps where he nearly died.<br />
“People ask me what my toughest<br />
everyday challenge is. That is<br />
undoubtedly my three children,<br />
Iris, Alix and Liam. If I had died on<br />
the mountain or decided to just<br />
lay down and die later, they would<br />
never have been born. Today, I am<br />
incredibly proud to pass on the<br />
gift of life to them. If there is any<br />
lesson to be learned from my story,<br />
it is that nothing is impossible. Set<br />
attainable goals and strive towards<br />
them. There is no reason why you<br />
should not attain them!”<br />
“We are concerned<br />
with<br />
giving something<br />
back to<br />
the community.<br />
To be able to<br />
contribute to<br />
raising the<br />
peace prize’s profile even more, both<br />
nationally and internationally, is an<br />
undivided pleasure for us,” says<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s executive vice president<br />
for communication, Ragnvald Nærø.<br />
Nærø emphasizes that the annual<br />
peace prize award ceremony and<br />
concert are the only truly international<br />
events in <strong>No</strong>rway.<br />
“<strong>Statkraft</strong> is also becoming an<br />
increasingly international group. The<br />
cooperation with the peace prize concert<br />
therefore benefits both parties.”<br />
In recent years, the peace prize has<br />
more often been awarded to people<br />
with a commitment beyond the classical<br />
conflict resolution perspective,<br />
e.g. environment activists Al Gore and<br />
Wangari Maathai.<br />
“We are concerned with clean<br />
energy in <strong>Statkraft</strong>, and the world<br />
needs more of this. The fact that the<br />
<strong>No</strong>bel committee connects peace with<br />
the environment makes it even more<br />
natural and appropriate for us to be<br />
one of the sponsors,” says Nærø.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> is also a partner for the<br />
<strong>No</strong>bel concert in Stockholm, which<br />
focuses on classical music. <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
holds seminars both in Oslo and<br />
Stockholm with high-profile international<br />
speakers and guests.<br />
The future is bright<br />
In <strong>No</strong>vember 2008, <strong>Statkraft</strong> launched a broad ad<br />
campaign in <strong>No</strong>rwegian media. The name of the campaign<br />
is “The future can bee bright”, and the ads have been<br />
placed in TV, cinemas, newspapers and magazines.<br />
Head of marketing, Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo, says<br />
that the purpose of the campaign is to spread knowledge<br />
about <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s work with renewable energy, and that<br />
this is something that will benefit society in general in the<br />
future. She says that the ads were designed before the<br />
financial crisis struck, but that the economic downturn in<br />
many ways has made the contents even more relevant.<br />
“The campaign is directed towards “modern”<br />
people. We want to reach those with children and<br />
grandchildren growing up and young people with their<br />
future ahead of them. Common for all those we want<br />
to reach with our message is that they are opinion<br />
leaders in their social circles,” says Nykkelmo.<br />
This is the fourth ad campaign from <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
to hit <strong>No</strong>rwegian media since the spring 2007. The<br />
campaigns have been an important part of the work<br />
to build the company’s reputation. Surveys conducted<br />
after the three last campaigns have shown that they<br />
hit their marks well among the target groups.<br />
Read more on the Intranet<br />
1500<br />
By 2015, <strong>Statkraft</strong> aims<br />
to produce at least 1500<br />
megawatts from landbased<br />
wind power<br />
First electric taxi in Scandinavia<br />
A new era has been launched for Trondheim’s taxis, with a<br />
solution based on two <strong>No</strong>rwegian-made Think cars. Before the<br />
taxis left Oslo for Trondheim over the Dovre mountains, they took<br />
<strong>No</strong>rways Minister of Transport and Communications, Liv Signe<br />
Navarsete, for a spin.<br />
A two-seat Think with room for one passenger is a minimalist<br />
solution which will face tough competition from more luxurious Mercedes<br />
cars. However, there is great faith in the project, based partly<br />
on the fact that 80 per cent of all taxi rides have just one passenger.<br />
Trondheim Energi wants to contribute to more green transport<br />
in the region, and is therefore the pilot project’s main partner.<br />
“This means a lot to us, taking our<br />
guests to two international-level<br />
seminars, in addition to the special<br />
ambience at the concerts. There is<br />
certainly no reason to complain about<br />
the quality of the stars. Such events<br />
contribute to important networking<br />
for <strong>Statkraft</strong>,” says Nærø.<br />
This is also an opportunity to raise<br />
awareness about the peace prize<br />
internally:<br />
“We have about 100 tickets for our<br />
employees for the meeting with the<br />
laureate in Oslo on the award day.<br />
This is a great event which is broadcast<br />
live on CNN,” says Nærø.<br />
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the photo story<br />
Vignett<br />
svartisen<br />
There are kilowatts for the taking everywhere in<br />
Svartisen. In the glacier, in the water and in the cre eks.<br />
But nothing gives a more powerful impression than<br />
the nature and the people who work in it.<br />
Text Cato Gjertsen photo Dag Spant<br />
Electrician Stein Harald Engen<br />
Mechanic Kenneth Rendal<br />
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kraftverket<br />
Svartisen<br />
A good hold<br />
Einar Lorentsen has worked in the<br />
Glomfjord power plant group for 23<br />
years. Here, he checks that the chains<br />
on a crane sit right. As a maintenance<br />
manager, his job is to allocate the tasks<br />
of the day to his employees, follow up<br />
the work and ensure that everyone has<br />
the right gear and equipment. Lorentsen<br />
is also power plant manager Karl Svein<br />
Thorrud’s deputy.<br />
Dry in the heights<br />
The bridge in the picture crosses the<br />
Fykanåga river upstream of Glomfjord<br />
power plant. There are few roads to the<br />
installations in the catchment areas<br />
for the three power plants. This means<br />
the employees have to walk or use a<br />
snowmobile when going out to repair<br />
things. If the new equipment is too heavy<br />
to transport on the ground, a helicopter<br />
must be hired for the job.<br />
Our employees<br />
are worth their<br />
weight in gold<br />
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kraftverket<br />
Vignett<br />
Free falling<br />
The magazines for the<br />
three reservoirs have<br />
about 50 creeks running<br />
into them. The water<br />
around the glacier goes<br />
to Svartisen power plant,<br />
while the catchment area<br />
below 600 metres above<br />
the sea goes to Glomfjord<br />
power plant. Neverdalsåga<br />
power plant gets its water<br />
from creeks a little to<br />
the west of the two other<br />
power plants.<br />
Power plant manager Karl Svein Thorrud<br />
Up, up, up…<br />
There is no room for fear of heights if you are going<br />
to the intake reservoir for Glomfjord power plant.<br />
To get there, you must take a cable car up to 450<br />
metres above the sea. The cable car system was<br />
built in the 1960s and is by far the best vantage<br />
point from which to survey the beautiful Glomfjord.<br />
The nature is beautiful,<br />
but also harsh<br />
The creators<br />
of wealth<br />
Glomfjord power plant group has only ten<br />
employees, but they are all worth their<br />
weight in gold for Meløy Municipality.<br />
This is because Glomfjord power plant group<br />
is the municipality’s largest tax payer, in one<br />
of <strong>No</strong>rway’s most heavily industrialized areas,<br />
about midway between Mo i Rana and Bodø.<br />
This says something of the magnitude of the<br />
wealth created in the organisation, bearing in<br />
mind that the two major <strong>No</strong>rwegian industrial<br />
groups Yara and REC are among its closest<br />
neighbours.<br />
Mechanic Willy Benjaminsen<br />
Glomfjord power plant group consists of Glomfjord,<br />
Svartisen and Neverdalsåga power plants.<br />
The three have a total annual mean production<br />
of about 2200 GWh, delivering electricity to<br />
local industry as well as the national grid.<br />
Glomfjord power plant was built in 1920,<br />
Neverdalsåga power plant in 1955 and<br />
Svartisen power plant in 1993. The nature<br />
in the area is beautiful, but also harsh.<br />
Employees almost always have to walk to<br />
reach the installations in the catchment<br />
areas, and as you can see from the pictures,<br />
this is no walk in the park.<br />
Energy operator Kjell Markussen<br />
On overgrown paths<br />
Power plant manager Karl Svein<br />
Thorrud on his way to Glomfjord<br />
power plant’s intake reservoir.<br />
The rails he is walking on are used<br />
when heavy equipment is transported<br />
to and from the dam and the<br />
hatch house. Like the areas around<br />
the other two power plants, this is<br />
a popular recreation area for the<br />
citizens of Meløy Municipality.<br />
Power plant manager Karl Svein Thorrud says<br />
that even if nature makes it a rough place to<br />
work, the employees are happy there.<br />
“There are only ten of us, so we cannot afford<br />
someone specializing in just one small area.<br />
Everyone has to work on all installations, but I<br />
think I speak for everyone when I say that this<br />
is a bonus. It makes the days more varied<br />
and keeps us on our toes,” says Thorrud.<br />
Mechanic Steinar Aasmyr<br />
Operations technician Terje Brandt<br />
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Taking the struggle<br />
for the environment online<br />
While CO2 emissions are increasing ominously and the greenhouse<br />
effect is the subject of a heated climate debate, <strong>Statkraft</strong> is<br />
launching a web portal which may be part of the solution.<br />
Text Yvonne Dybwad photo Yvonne Dybwad and Gettyimages<br />
With its new CO2 portal,<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> wants to help reduce<br />
greenhouse gas emissions.<br />
By launching<br />
this portal, we<br />
have made it easy for<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s partners<br />
and customers to buy<br />
UN-approved climate<br />
quotas<br />
Tore Melland, business<br />
developer in <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
Innovation and Growth<br />
Clean power in Honduras<br />
Households and companies which buy<br />
CO2 quotas contribute to preventing the<br />
emissions of a corresponding amount of<br />
greenhouse gases elsewhere in the world.<br />
In the town of La Esperanza in Honduras,<br />
the sale of CO2 quotas has made<br />
it possible to build a hydropower plant<br />
which replaces energy produced from<br />
diesel and coal. The hydropower plant has<br />
a capacity of 12.7 MW, based on water<br />
from the local river. This production replaces<br />
corresponding production from fossil<br />
fuels. <strong>No</strong>t only does the project provide<br />
clean energy, it also secures a stable<br />
power supply to the local community.<br />
More information about buying quotas<br />
under the auspices of the UN and <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
can be found at www.myCO2.no<br />
Weathering the storm<br />
The finance crisis has hit <strong>No</strong>rwegian companies hard,<br />
and hardly any companies or industries have been<br />
left unscathed. <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s own experts do, however,<br />
believe that the company is well equipped to make it<br />
through the recession.<br />
Both businesses and households have been made to<br />
feel the finance crisis, but what will be the consequences<br />
for <strong>Statkraft</strong>?<br />
The financial crisis has had significant effects on<br />
commodity prices, such a coal, oil and gas, and it is expected<br />
that prices and demand for power may drop in<br />
the short and middle term. With lower growth, <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
expects some reductions in expected investments.<br />
Treasurer Unni Hongseth says that this may have implications<br />
for <strong>Statkraft</strong> in the period ahead.<br />
“The value of listed companies comparable to<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> has been reduced by 40 to 60 per cent from<br />
the top quotations. Our shares are not listed, but<br />
developments indicate that the energy sector is also<br />
affected by the financial crisis. <strong>Statkraft</strong> has good access<br />
to short-term loans in the certificate market, and<br />
has therefore covered its need for financing. We are<br />
comfortable with <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s financing situation. There<br />
are many players which have far greater problems with<br />
getting financing and which have to pay far more for it,”<br />
says Hongseth.<br />
As the financial crisis grew, there was also a new<br />
tendency in the end-user market, according to Trondheim<br />
Energi. Far more end-users received first-time<br />
debt collection notifications in the third quarter of 2008<br />
than in the same period in 2007. What is surprising in<br />
this connection is that the number of resolved debt<br />
collection cases also increased. The average <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
seems to have become better at paying up when the<br />
chips are down.. Read more on the Intranet.<br />
Strengthening<br />
government relations<br />
“Understanding the framework conditions, and<br />
not least following up changes and making our voices<br />
heard, will be important for achieving the growth we<br />
are planning,” says Oluf Ulseth, director for Europe and<br />
head of the government relations unit on the group<br />
staff communication and corporate responsibility.<br />
This area has recently been strengthened with two new<br />
employees, and another is on the way. Eivind Heløe<br />
(42) has taken up the position of head of government<br />
relations in <strong>No</strong>rway. His previous job was director of<br />
political communication in Argument AS and he has<br />
extensive experience from political analysis and lobbying<br />
vis-à-vis political authorities and the civil service.<br />
Simen Bræin (35) has been hired as senior advisor and<br />
will work on government relations outside of <strong>No</strong>rway,<br />
especially in Southeast Europe. He comes from the<br />
Foreign Ministry, where he has worked as deputy head<br />
of the <strong>No</strong>rwegian Embassy in Beograd, Serbia and<br />
Montenegro. Work is also underway to fill a position as<br />
senior advisor in energy and climate policy.<br />
Photo Stein Morch<br />
Gunnar Hovland and Tore<br />
Melland launched the CO2<br />
portal in Amsterdam.<br />
Via www.myCO2.no, <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
has established trading of UNapproved<br />
CO2 quotas which<br />
contribute to reducing the world’s<br />
total greenhouse gas emissions.<br />
“<strong>Statkraft</strong> is the biggest player in<br />
Europe in renewable energy. Our<br />
objective with the myCO2.no portal<br />
is to become part of the solution by<br />
helping to reduce greenhouse gas<br />
emissions in a simple way,” says<br />
managing director in Trondheim<br />
Energi Kraftsalg, Gunnar Hovland.<br />
Hovland had the honour of<br />
launch ing the portal during the<br />
anniversary seminar for <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
Markets Continental (SMC) in<br />
Amsterdam on 5 <strong>No</strong>vember. In<br />
front of a shocked audience, Hovland<br />
showed how the anniversary<br />
conference alone produced<br />
emissions of 100 tonnes of CO2.<br />
The shock quickly turned into<br />
laughter when Hovland pulled out<br />
a payment terminal and made CEO<br />
Bård Mikkelsen buy CO2 quotas for<br />
1800 euros with his gold card.<br />
For companies and households.<br />
MyCO2.no has been<br />
developed by Trondheim Energi in<br />
cooperation with SMC. It has English,<br />
German, Dutch and <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
language versions and can be used<br />
by both companies and households.<br />
The price per CO2 quota is determined<br />
by supply and demand in the<br />
market and is listed on the <strong>No</strong>rd<br />
Pool electricity exchange.<br />
Gunnar Hovland and his colleague<br />
Tore Melland, who is a business developer<br />
in <strong>Statkraft</strong> Innovation and<br />
Growth, say that the portal can be<br />
used by both companies and households.<br />
They expect that companies<br />
will use the portal the most, while<br />
households are more likely to buy<br />
quotas via <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s partners, such<br />
as airline and railroad companies.<br />
Great climate commitment.<br />
“There is an increasing commitment<br />
to climate and environmental<br />
measur es, especially in Germany<br />
and the Netherlands. By launching<br />
this portal, we have made it easy<br />
for <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s partners and customers<br />
to buy UN-approved climate<br />
quotas,” says Melland.<br />
The two colleagues emphasize that<br />
everyone can contribute to a better<br />
environment by compensating for<br />
their own emissions and travel by<br />
buying approved climate quotas.<br />
<strong>No</strong>t stopped by the<br />
finance crisis:<br />
As soon as the rainy season<br />
ends, the expansion of Theun-<br />
Hinboun in Laos will commence.<br />
In spite of the crisis,<br />
the hydropower plant in which<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> owns 20 per cent,<br />
got its financing in place –<br />
due to seven international and<br />
Thai banks. The investment<br />
exceeds USD 500 million.<br />
2100<br />
Øvre Bersåvatn and Nedre Bersåvatn<br />
power plants in Hardanger<br />
are the smallest built by <strong>Statkraft</strong>.<br />
The total annual production is<br />
about 43 GWh, enough to supply<br />
about 2100 households.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> participates in fair<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> will participate with its own stand<br />
at Europe’s leading energy fair in Essen in<br />
Germany from 10 to 12 February <strong>2009</strong>. The<br />
fair will focus on a number of topics related to<br />
electricity and hydropower. The organisers of<br />
the “E-World Energy & Water” fair expect almost<br />
16 000 visitors from 30 countries, up 20 per<br />
cent from last year's visitor numbers. More than<br />
450 energy business players will attend with<br />
their own stands.<br />
120 TWh<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian power production<br />
is almost exclusively based<br />
on hydropower. The total annual<br />
production is about 120<br />
TWh, of which hydropower<br />
contributes 99 per cent.<br />
Powerful birthday boy<br />
On 17 October, Knapsack power plant in <strong>No</strong>rdrhein<br />
Westfalen, Germany, celebrated its first birthday. The gas<br />
power plant has 36 employees and will produce 800 MW<br />
when it reaches full capacity in <strong>2009</strong>. Operations have gone<br />
as planned since the start-up. Sure, there have been a few<br />
teething problems during the first year, but nothing more than<br />
expected. The administration building will be completed this<br />
spring. And no-one needs worry whether visitors will know that<br />
this is a <strong>Statkraft</strong> facility. Our logo is impressively displayed on<br />
all sides of the buildings, in addition to a dam excavated near<br />
the entrance which has our logo in the centre.<br />
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Willkommen!<br />
“Finally back among our own!” Power plant manager Frank Pöhler was unusually<br />
outspoken when the <strong>No</strong>rwegian delegation visited Erzhausen. <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s<br />
take-over is the cause of happiness in Germany as well as Wales and Sweden.<br />
We couldn’t have been<br />
happier with our new<br />
German colleagues.<br />
Technical director Astrid Elisabeth Løken<br />
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e.on-agreement<br />
…as was Patrick<br />
Hacke, who got<br />
on well with Jens<br />
Davidsen.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> in <strong>No</strong>rthern Europe<br />
Following the agreement with E.ON, our<br />
map of <strong>No</strong>rthern Europe looks like this:<br />
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What are your expectations<br />
for the <strong>Statkraft</strong> take-over?<br />
Hans-Georg Holz (53)<br />
Machinist, Germany<br />
“My first impression is that<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> is a solid organization<br />
which listens to its<br />
employees. Competence<br />
is king and there is broad<br />
professional milieu with<br />
short distances between<br />
managers and employees.”<br />
With open arms<br />
The Land of Smiles is said to lie in the Far East, but if you saw how the<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> employees from <strong>No</strong>rway were received by their new colleagues<br />
in Germany, you could be forgiven for believing that Germany was it.<br />
text cato gjertsen photo erik thallaug<br />
At the end of October, a group<br />
of about ten <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> employees travelled<br />
to Germany to meet their new<br />
colleagues and inspect <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s<br />
new pumped-storage and river power<br />
plant. The reception they were given<br />
exceeded all expectations.<br />
Senior HSE adviser Kjell <strong>No</strong>rbom<br />
has been impressed by the openness<br />
and warmth he and his colleagues<br />
were received with, and adds<br />
that the hospitality was equally<br />
hearty in Wales and Sweden.<br />
“We represent the new owners<br />
from a foreign country outside the<br />
EU, we speak a foreign language<br />
and come from a culture which<br />
until recently was unknown to the<br />
Germans. All the same, we have<br />
been received with open arms, and<br />
I have not met any sceptics. This<br />
Matthias Acker was also<br />
pleased to get a visit<br />
from <strong>No</strong>rway .<br />
meeting signals success for our<br />
future cooperation,” says <strong>No</strong>rbom.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> unique in Europe<br />
The manager for E.ON’s pumpedstorage<br />
plant, Frank Pöhler, has<br />
not seen any scepticism towards<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> from his German colleagues.<br />
He believes the German<br />
goodwill towards the organization<br />
will only grow in the time ahead.<br />
“<strong>Statkraft</strong> is unique in Europe within<br />
eco-friendly energy. Their hydro power<br />
competence will undoubtedly strengthen<br />
our position and ensure continued<br />
operation of the power plants.<br />
It is no secret that we, at times, have<br />
felt unappreciated in E.ON. Hydropower<br />
has not had the same prestige<br />
there as it does in <strong>Statkraft</strong>. This is<br />
why I really feel that we have come<br />
home now,” says Pöhler.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> is unique in Europe within<br />
environmentally friendly energy. Their<br />
hydropower competence will undoubtedly<br />
strengthen our position and ensure continued<br />
operation of the power plants.<br />
Further growth<br />
Technical director Astrid Elisabeth<br />
Løken is focusing on the fact that<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> gets more competence on<br />
a type of power plant which the organization<br />
has not previously owned.<br />
“In addition, we have gained a<br />
solid foothold on the continent,<br />
which will undoubtedly give us<br />
valuable experience in our future<br />
growth in Europe. To <strong>Statkraft</strong>, it<br />
is now important that the German<br />
market gets to know our organization,<br />
which is why we will proceed<br />
cautiously and show the same<br />
openness which characterizes<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian business culture. In this<br />
connection, we could not be more<br />
fortunate with our new German colleagues.<br />
I am sure they will become<br />
great ambassadors for <strong>Statkraft</strong>,”<br />
says Løken.<br />
The manager for<br />
E.ON’s pumpedstorage<br />
plant,<br />
Frank Pöhler<br />
the netherlanDS<br />
Facts<br />
germany<br />
The agreement with E.ON entails that <strong>Statkraft</strong> takes<br />
over assets worth NOK 4.5 billion euro, including:<br />
In Germany: Two gas power plants (917 MW), 11 hydropower<br />
plants (262 MW) and shares in E.ON worth 2.2 billion euro.<br />
In Sweden: 40 hydropower plants (975 MW) and five<br />
district heating plants (300 GWh).<br />
In the UK: 1 hydropower plant in Wales (56 MW)<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> will get about 220 new employees.<br />
Skilled professionals<br />
The <strong>No</strong>rwegian <strong>Statkraft</strong> delegation is clear<br />
in their assessment after their inspection tour of<br />
the hydropower plants previously owned by E.ON<br />
in northern Germany: “The employees are skilled<br />
professionals with a high degree of competence<br />
and professional pride. In addition, they are good at<br />
taking care of and utilizing their power plants,” says<br />
senior engineer in electrical/gas Otto Engen.<br />
Outside the Erzhausen pumped-storage plant,<br />
the <strong>No</strong>rwegian who has just had a thorough tour<br />
of the plant with his <strong>No</strong>rwegian colleagues, gives<br />
it the thumbs-up. He says that the technical equipment<br />
from 1998 is very modern and holds a high<br />
standard.<br />
“This is in no way inferior to what we see in <strong>No</strong>rway.<br />
Sure enough, some of the other power plants<br />
in the area have had fewer upgrades over the last<br />
few years, but it is still obvious that the workers are<br />
using their broad competence to get the best from<br />
their power plants. They are basically very smart<br />
FinlanD<br />
Electricity consumption<br />
per person measured in<br />
kWh per year (2004).<br />
1) <strong>No</strong>rway 26,6<br />
2) Sweden 16,7<br />
3) Germany 7,4<br />
4) The UK 6,7<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Much is similar in the four countries involved in the E.ON<br />
agreement. But there are also fundamental differences,<br />
such as electricity consumption per person.<br />
Senior engineer in electrical/gas<br />
Otto Engen<br />
Average price per kWh<br />
in eurocents<br />
1) <strong>No</strong>rway 2,81<br />
2) Sweden 3,04<br />
3) Germany 4,06<br />
(<strong>No</strong> figures available<br />
for the UK)<br />
people who have now<br />
become our colleagues,<br />
and that means that<br />
there is no need for<br />
training. This will be<br />
all about constructive<br />
cooperation from day<br />
one,” says Engen.<br />
His views are supported<br />
by machinist Hans-<br />
Georg Holz, who says that there is a very strong<br />
work culture among the German colleagues.<br />
“We have always delivered what was expected<br />
from us, and then some more. I have not really got<br />
to know <strong>Statkraft</strong> yet, but I like what I have seen.<br />
Hydropower is important for the top management,<br />
and I understand that the chain of command will be<br />
shorter than we are used to. With this foundation,<br />
everything should be in place to make us feel well<br />
cared for as part of the <strong>Statkraft</strong> family,” says Holz.<br />
Holger Bartelt (37)<br />
Competence manager, Germany<br />
“I hope and trust that <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
will get to know the<br />
new power plants really<br />
well before they make any<br />
changes. My impression<br />
of the new management<br />
is that their words and<br />
actions correlate and that<br />
they are good at focusing on core competence. This<br />
will hopefully reduce the bureaucracy which has<br />
characterized some of the operations until now.”<br />
Astrid Elisabeth Løken (46)<br />
Technical director of production, <strong>No</strong>rway<br />
“I have great expectations<br />
for the cooperation. There<br />
is no doubt that these are<br />
two highly skilled competence<br />
milieus, uniting<br />
their strengths. I therefore<br />
hope that all parties will<br />
be good at listening, enabling<br />
us to get the most from the synergy effects.”<br />
Nicklas Kilstam (36)<br />
Operations manager for<br />
the five district heating<br />
plants <strong>Statkraft</strong> will take<br />
over in Sweden<br />
“It feels great to get a<br />
chance to work in a company<br />
with such a clearly<br />
defined goal of expanding<br />
into district heating and production of green energy.<br />
The employees in Sweden have been positive from<br />
day one, and the integration process has been interesting<br />
and educational. Our impression is that the<br />
new owners are serious, responsible and competent.”<br />
Henry Drake (58)<br />
Power station manager<br />
at Rheidol Power Station,<br />
Wales<br />
“Everyone at Rheidol is<br />
looking forward to becoming<br />
part of <strong>Statkraft</strong>. The<br />
people we have met are<br />
very nice as well as highly competent. We want to<br />
do our bit to make the changeover as smooth as<br />
possible, and we want to share our knowledge with<br />
our new colleagues. The pure energy focus is also<br />
very appealing, and we hope that <strong>Statkraft</strong> will grow<br />
to be a success in the UK.”<br />
20 statkraft people & power 21
feature<br />
e.on-agreement<br />
Meet<br />
chief negotiator<br />
Stein Dale<br />
Hands across<br />
the border for<br />
district heating<br />
By Anne Lise Åkervik<br />
the<br />
long<br />
journey<br />
Read the story behind the<br />
largest, sober business<br />
transaction ever in the<br />
<strong>No</strong>rdic countries.<br />
text Birger Baug<br />
photo Hans Fredrik Asbjørnsen<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian industrial history was made<br />
on 24 July 2008, when the CEOs of<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> and E.ON shook hands and<br />
signed the giant agreement between<br />
the two companies. In the photograph the whole<br />
thing may have looked easy, but every word in<br />
the agreement was the result of a massive effort.<br />
The person who knows most about that effort is<br />
negotiation leader, executive vice president and<br />
CFO Stein Dale. Throughout the process with<br />
E.ON, he led an army of sharp lawyers, economists,<br />
advisors and analysts. And without them<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s world of <strong>2009</strong> would be very different,<br />
a fact Dale is the first to acknowledge: “I only had<br />
to complete the victory parade of that long relay<br />
race. There is one single reason why this went so<br />
well: The fact that the team completed this hard<br />
work in such an exacting and thorough manner.<br />
The expansion has started<br />
<strong>No</strong> matter who did what, the fact remains<br />
that “Project Genoa” resulted in an agreement<br />
worth about 4.5 billion euro, or NOK 40 billion.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> has become an even bigger player in<br />
renewable energy and has begun its expansion<br />
on the continent in earnest. This process is sure<br />
not to stop with the E.ON agreement, but we are<br />
unlikely to see figures of the same magnitude<br />
for some time. This was, after all, the largest<br />
business transaction in <strong>No</strong>rway ever.<br />
It was also the largest transaction in the <strong>No</strong>rdic<br />
countries ever, if one takes a teetotal approach<br />
and excludes the sale of Absolut Vodka.<br />
“As we have received assets and shares equalling<br />
the amount we traded away in shares, the transactions<br />
in reality involve 9 billion euro,” says Dale.<br />
Unfortunate situation<br />
The whole thing really started in April 1996,<br />
when <strong>Statkraft</strong> started acquiring shares in Sydkraft,<br />
which would later become E.ON Sverige.<br />
From 2002, <strong>Statkraft</strong> owned 45 percent and<br />
E.ON 55 per cent of Sydkraft. This became an<br />
unfortunate situation, as the smaller and larger<br />
owner had diverging strategic interests.<br />
“Something had to be done. The problem was<br />
that we had an option to sell which valued our<br />
shares to about 2 billion euro. However, we knew<br />
that our shares were worth much more and<br />
would not sell at that price. So, we both just sat<br />
there for a while, before some small negotiation<br />
initiatives began to be made.”<br />
The first attempts led nowhere. “The shortest<br />
negotiation round took place in Copenhagen,” Dale<br />
reminisces. “It lasted 45 minutes, including lunch.”<br />
Mutual respect<br />
Even if the negotiations did not give any results,<br />
the atmosphere was always one of mutual respect.<br />
Dale personally has a great liking for the<br />
German negotiators, especially E.ON’s secondin-command<br />
Johannes Teyssen and their vice<br />
president for strategy Lutz Feldmann. On the<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian side, Anders Prietz, Rolf Busch, Kjetil<br />
Hartvedt Nilsen and, not least, Finn Fossanger<br />
made up the team in the early rounds.<br />
“There were tough fights in a good atmosphere.<br />
As time passed, we established good personal<br />
relationships.”<br />
But then, in April 2007, Teyssen called Dale to<br />
invite <strong>Statkraft</strong> to a meeting about E.ON’s “new<br />
organization structure”, which called for the centralization<br />
of all management units to Düsseldorf,<br />
including E.ON Sverige.<br />
“They could not do that without our consent,<br />
and they knew that we knew that,” says Dale.<br />
And so the meetings started again. As the<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> board had earlier made a decision not<br />
When His Majesty<br />
and two ministers<br />
showed up, everyone,<br />
whether from E.ON<br />
or <strong>Statkraft</strong>, realized<br />
how big this agreement<br />
really was.<br />
to exercise the sales option, the real value of the<br />
shares could be calculated.<br />
“Everything became much easier then. E.ON signalled<br />
that 4 billion euro could be an acceptable<br />
price, and we signalled that the agreement had<br />
to include at least one third of the hydropower in<br />
Sweden. Then we got underway.”<br />
Flames from the fireplace<br />
At a meeting at Laksfors in <strong>No</strong>rdland in September,<br />
the goal was to agree on the big issues. E.ON<br />
was represented by Teyssen, Feldman and CEO<br />
Wulf Bernotat and <strong>Statkraft</strong> by chair of the board<br />
Arvid Grundekjøn and CEO Bård Mikkelsen, in<br />
addition to Dale. Beautiful scenery and a blazing<br />
fireplace did the trick, in addition to two hardworking<br />
teams in their respective main offices:<br />
Two days later, Lutz and Dale shook hands on the<br />
terrace. They had agreed on a framework they<br />
could recommend. “That was a great moment for<br />
many more than just Lutz and me,” says Dale.<br />
And then the King came …<br />
October 12 was agreed on as the date for<br />
signing the letter of intent. This made both the<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian royal family and the <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
Facts<br />
The final breakthrough in the negotiations<br />
between <strong>Statkraft</strong> and E.ON took<br />
place at Laksfors in <strong>No</strong>rdland on 17<br />
September 2007.<br />
The finalization of the negotiations<br />
involved more then nine units and<br />
more than 100 people in the <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
system.<br />
In the most hectic period, seven external<br />
consultancy firms were hired.<br />
The final agreement was signed in<br />
Stockholm on 24 July 2008 by the<br />
CEOs Dr Wulf Bernotat (E.ON) and Bård<br />
Mikkelsen (<strong>Statkraft</strong>).<br />
Project Genoa!?<br />
Did you ever wonder why the<br />
secret negotiations with E.ON<br />
were given the widely adopted<br />
name “Genoa”, which is the<br />
name of a type of sail? If you are<br />
into anagrams, you may have<br />
understood already. If not, try<br />
reshuffling the letters in E.ON<br />
AG …<br />
The name’s inventor? Sailing<br />
aficionado Stein Dale.<br />
E.ON’s code name for the<br />
negotiations? “Elk”.<br />
government realize what was about to happen.<br />
“E.ON wanted a big occasion at their main office.<br />
By coincidence, King Harald, the Minister of<br />
Trade and Industry and the Minister of Petroleum<br />
and Energy were all visiting Germany at the time.<br />
We were told in no uncertain terms that the<br />
program had been decided upon already, but<br />
the <strong>No</strong>rwegian ambassador contacted the royal<br />
palace anyway.<br />
“And lo and behold: The King found the whole thing<br />
so interesting that he ordered the curtailment of<br />
an official luncheon. When His Majesty and two ministers<br />
showed up, everyone, whether from E.ON or<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>, realized how big this agreement really was.”<br />
Two days of reading out loud<br />
We could have said that this was the end of the<br />
story, only adding that the negotiations over the<br />
details took ten months, culminating in the signing<br />
of the agreement in Stockholm on 24 July 2008.<br />
However, we must tell you that in Germany, such<br />
agreements have to be read out loud by a notary<br />
public, and this agreement was several hundred<br />
pages long. “The reading took almost two days.<br />
The notary public said he drank a litre of water for<br />
every hundred pages,” says Dale.<br />
Through the<br />
trade swap with<br />
German company<br />
E.ON AG., <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
takes over five<br />
district heating<br />
plants in Sweden. In<br />
Trondheim Energi<br />
Fjernvarme, they are<br />
ready to take over<br />
operations and are looking forward to it.<br />
“We have 25 years of experience with operation<br />
and development of district heating, so<br />
we have very good competence in this field,”<br />
says Steinar Asbjørnsen, managing director<br />
of Trondheim Energi Fjernvarme.<br />
In the capital of middle <strong>No</strong>rway, the district<br />
heating pipes are spreading across the city<br />
and entering new buildings. About 30 per<br />
cent of the heating in Trondheim is now supplied<br />
by district heating, and the grid expansion<br />
is continuous. The heat is mainly based<br />
on waste incineration, and about 500 GWh of<br />
heat is delivered per year. The five Swedish<br />
plants will deliver about 300 GWh in total.<br />
District heating goes<br />
well with <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s<br />
vision of becoming a<br />
leading player in green<br />
energy in Europe.<br />
Environmentally correct. “District<br />
heating goes well with <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s vision of<br />
becoming a leading player in green energy<br />
in Europe. The preparations for the takeover<br />
of the plants have been underway since<br />
summer, and <strong>Statkraft</strong> formally took over on<br />
1 January. The local operating organization<br />
is part of the take-over, and this means that<br />
18 employees from E.ON will now be employed<br />
by <strong>Statkraft</strong>. In addition, we will hire<br />
five more in Sweden,” says Asbjørnsen.<br />
“It has been important for us to have as many<br />
as possible of the Swedish employees continue<br />
with us, as they know the operations<br />
and plants well. Their competence and<br />
experience are important, and we will build<br />
on that.”<br />
Bio-energy and waste. Asbjørnsen<br />
believes there is much to learn from the<br />
Swedes. They have many years of experience<br />
because Sweden has had a strong<br />
focus on district heating for many years.<br />
The plants we take over in Sweden burn<br />
wood, while the plant in Trondheim burns<br />
waste. Steinar Asbjørnsen is very pleased<br />
with the swap trade <strong>Statkraft</strong> made with<br />
E.ON AG.<br />
“We have for many years wanted to develop the<br />
district heating activity further. These plants<br />
fit well into our portfolio, and this will give us<br />
a broader <strong>No</strong>rdic competence milieu for bio<br />
energy and district heating,” says Asbjørnsen.<br />
22 statkraft people & power 23
foto Karin Rosenqvist<br />
technology & environment<br />
Helping the eagles<br />
against windmills<br />
A new research project in <strong>Statkraft</strong> aims to make windmills more<br />
visible for sea eagles. The goal is to reduce the number of collisions<br />
between birds and machines.<br />
Birds see differently from people in several ways. Their colour vision is<br />
much better than ours, enabling them to differentiate between twice as many<br />
shades of colour. In addition, birds can see ultraviolet light, and they have a<br />
special eye function, a double lens, which makes it easier to detect movement.<br />
This should be a good foundation for reducing the number of collisions.<br />
The project will calculate and improve various models in natural surroundings<br />
at the Smøla windmill park in <strong>No</strong>rway, and also work closely<br />
with a visual-physiological project at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.<br />
The models will calculate the visibility of the windmills both as regards<br />
distances and weather conditions. The project will probably result in new<br />
colours for the windmills and pave the way for different lighting systems.<br />
Per Rosenqvist uses the<br />
el scooter in Stockholm.<br />
On two wheels in Stockholm<br />
Employees at <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s Stockholm<br />
office are blazing new trails to help<br />
the environment. They have not a<br />
single company car, but the electrical<br />
company moped has already become<br />
a very popular means of transport when<br />
employees are going to meetings or<br />
running quick errands. The moped<br />
can carry two and just needs to be<br />
plugged into an electrical outlet<br />
when the battery runs low.<br />
Agents in a strange hotel<br />
Birds can see<br />
ultraviolet light,<br />
and their eyes have a<br />
special function which<br />
detects movement more<br />
easily.<br />
33 restrictions in different<br />
An overview from 2003<br />
shows that <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
implemented 33 selfimposed<br />
environmental<br />
waterways. The restrictions were related<br />
to everything from bio-diversity to<br />
erosion and aesthetics.<br />
16 people in Trondheim Energi have been appointed “innovation agents”.<br />
Their task is to promote a culture of innovation in the company. The group was<br />
recently in Copenhagen for a five-day agent program.<br />
Their lodgings were at the very peculiar Hotel Fox, where Danish and foreign<br />
artists have been given a free hand to decorate and furnish the rooms,<br />
resulting in very different rooms. For instance, one of the participants lived in<br />
a room furnished like a tent, and had to sit on a log to brush his teeth! “Innovation<br />
has to do with being able to break out of the daily, humdrum routines,”<br />
says Kristin Bjelland, who was responsible for the study tour.<br />
The agent projects span from reuse of transformer stations to electronic<br />
signature systems for internal documents.<br />
Photo Gettyimages<br />
49<br />
Wind power is expected<br />
to contribute<br />
49 per cent of the<br />
growth in renewable<br />
energy in Europe<br />
leading up to 2020.<br />
Wants to extend dam<br />
lifetime by 40 years<br />
A new R&D study aims to extend the<br />
lifetime of concrete dams by 40 years.<br />
One of the objectives is to see to what<br />
degree <strong>Statkraft</strong> can use new materials<br />
such as carbon fibres, which has become<br />
increasingly common in classical<br />
building technology in recent years.<br />
The study is being conducted in cooperation<br />
with the <strong>No</strong>rwegian Water<br />
Resources and Energy Directorate<br />
(NVE), which so far has been very<br />
positive to the objective. The hope is<br />
that NVE can adapt its regulations for<br />
use of new techniques and materials<br />
in line with the findings of the study.<br />
Lighter materials and less use of<br />
cement and heavy construction<br />
equipment could also give major<br />
environmental benefits.<br />
Alta power plant<br />
Focusing on tidal<br />
and wave power<br />
Securing new licences<br />
for development, technology<br />
development and competence<br />
development is the main priority<br />
in <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s new strategy for<br />
investing in marine energy. The<br />
long-term goal is to produce power<br />
from tidal currents and waves.<br />
“The strategy is important because<br />
it specifies what we must<br />
do to attain our goals,” says<br />
Petter Hersleth, head of marine<br />
energy in <strong>Statkraft</strong>'s business<br />
unit Innovation and Growth. “We<br />
now have a plan for what to do in<br />
the next few years, and we have<br />
chosen to focus on tidal power to<br />
begin with,” says Hersleth.<br />
The three most important factors<br />
to develop tidal power are to<br />
secure licences in places suited<br />
to plant construction, contribute<br />
to technology development and<br />
develop inhouse competence. The<br />
geographical focus is on the UK<br />
and Ireland. These countries have<br />
good subsidy systems, a large<br />
energy potential for tidal power<br />
and they have come a long way in<br />
developing regulations and licence<br />
processes.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> also has ambitions<br />
in wave power, but has chosen<br />
to wait a while before making a<br />
commitment.<br />
The global tidal power potential<br />
is expected to be 700 TWh per<br />
year, as only a few areas are suited<br />
for tidal power plants. The potential<br />
for wave power, however, is almost<br />
endless, as it can take place<br />
wherever waves hit the shore.<br />
Energy Game to be used in schools<br />
The partly <strong>Statkraft</strong>-financed Energy Game is an online game aimed at high<br />
school students. The objective of the game is to use energy sources in the best possible<br />
way, with environment/climate, resource use and costs closely intertwined.<br />
“A very interesting game and learning concept for high school education, but<br />
also for the lower levels,” Anders Isnes from the National centre for natural<br />
science in education says enthusiastically. The centre wants to use its network<br />
and events to make the game known to teachers.<br />
The Energy Game is designed to encourage a way of thinking which takes<br />
into account the overall picture and highlights issues related to energy, environment<br />
and climate. If you want to test a preliminary version, visit<br />
www.energispillet.no (only in <strong>No</strong>rwegian for now).<br />
Salmon being<br />
brought out on<br />
rafts from deep inside<br />
the mountain<br />
Power station becomes<br />
hatching station<br />
Expanding a 600 metre long power station tunnel is no easy task, a fact<br />
well known at Hove power plant in <strong>No</strong>rway. The final breeding salmon<br />
are now being taken out from deep inside the mountain, and from next<br />
autumn the outdated Refsdal power station will be used as a hatchery.<br />
Breeding salmon are captured<br />
in the tunnel every year to ensure<br />
reproduction of the local salmon stock<br />
in the river Vikja, in competition with<br />
escaped farmed salmon. The salmon<br />
are put in big open tanks in the power<br />
station area, where scale samples are<br />
taken to separate the wild fish from the<br />
escaped farmed fish. The wild fish are<br />
then stroked for eggs and sperm and<br />
the eggs are set aside to mature, before<br />
it’s back to the river for hatching.<br />
Due to the planned tunnel expansion,<br />
which may affect the natural<br />
growth of the salmon stock, extra<br />
large numbers of fish have been taken<br />
out this autumn and winter. In total,<br />
130 salmon have ended up in the<br />
open tanks by the power station.<br />
“Today, we are inside the tunnel,<br />
stroking the fish. How much of it is<br />
farmed salmon, I do not know, but<br />
previously it has been almost 50 per<br />
cent", says maintenance manager Odd<br />
Wild or farmed? Salmon<br />
on its way to being tested,<br />
in the hands of Kjell<br />
Voll and Stian Myklatun<br />
Bjarte Turvoll at Hove power station.<br />
When the salmon are in the tanks, all<br />
fish that are obviously farmed are taken<br />
out, killed and destroyed. The rest remain<br />
while waiting for the scale test results.<br />
“Have you never been tempted to take<br />
some fresh salmon home for dinner?”<br />
“Well, that would have to be the<br />
farmed salmon,” laughs Turvoll. “But<br />
according to the veterinary, the meat<br />
quality of the salmon is so poor this<br />
time of year that it is unsuitable for<br />
human consumption. So I guess we<br />
have to buy our salmon in the supermarket<br />
like everyone else.”<br />
But from this autumn, a new era<br />
will start when the old Refsdal power<br />
station is put to use as a hatchery. The<br />
station has been refurbished for NOK<br />
3.5 million, allocated from a special<br />
egg deployment project. When the<br />
eggs reach the eyed egg stage, they<br />
are moved into plastic crates and<br />
returned to the river.<br />
Photo Gunnar Kleven, Sogn Avis<br />
24 statkraft people & power 25
visit<br />
the operating centre at dalen<br />
Dalen windmill<br />
debut<br />
Having lunch with:<br />
The production department at<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> Energi AS – Region<br />
Eastern <strong>No</strong>rway<br />
The 15 employees plan, monitor<br />
and manage power production for<br />
42 power plants across Eastern<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway. They also monitor the<br />
environment and the rate of water<br />
flow.<br />
From the operating centre at Dalen<br />
the river system can be regulated<br />
and help moderate flooding.<br />
The operating centre's power<br />
plant has a production of<br />
9.5 TWh per year.<br />
The canteen is a popular<br />
gathering spot for employees,<br />
including Hege<br />
Jonassen Verpe, Torbjørn<br />
Hegna, Olav Kaasa and<br />
Axel Lang.<br />
Full storm in Dalen<br />
The lunch hosts at Dalen in Telemark, <strong>No</strong>rway attempt to set the<br />
very first records in our impromptu wind power contest. Judging<br />
from their concentration – their efforts may be hard to beat!<br />
Tekst Yvonne Dybwad og foto Yvonne Dybwad og Arild hansen<br />
The first to try the windmill test,<br />
from the left: Anne Berit Kilen,<br />
Knut Åge Hammerhaug and<br />
Åshild Løvold.<br />
Thousands of acres of forest.<br />
Seven hunting clubs. Fifteen<br />
moose felled. <strong>No</strong>t surprisingly,<br />
moose are a hot topic<br />
when the <strong>Statkraft</strong> employees<br />
at Dalen take their lunch break in<br />
the middle of hunting season.<br />
"A lot of people are having lunch<br />
today. When moose hunting season<br />
started a couple of weeks ago, it<br />
was almost empty here and in the<br />
municipal building," chuckles hydrologist<br />
Axel Lang.<br />
Axel and his colleagues at<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>'s operating centre at Dalen<br />
in Telemark are seated around a<br />
table in the canteen, eating lunch and<br />
discussing one of the most important<br />
topics of the fall season. The king of<br />
the forest is the source of great enthusiasm<br />
and merriment, and there<br />
is plenty of laughter - and also plenty<br />
of shift swapping going on. It's not<br />
always easy to get all the schedules<br />
to work when "everyone" is waiting for<br />
a chance to use their hunting licence.<br />
Big responsibility<br />
The rosters always get filled somehow.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>'s operating centre at<br />
Dalen in Telemark must be staffed<br />
round the clock, regardless of season,<br />
holidays or hunting licences.<br />
From the control room on the second<br />
floor, employees plan, monitor<br />
and manage power production for<br />
42 power plants with a total of 71<br />
units throughout Eastern <strong>No</strong>rway.<br />
The production engineers working<br />
at the operating centre make sure<br />
that power production stays within<br />
the limits stipulated in the licence.<br />
They are also responsible for continuous<br />
short-term optimization. In<br />
practical terms, this means that<br />
they have to evaluate which units<br />
should be run in order to extract<br />
the maximum power, and value<br />
from each drop of water.<br />
The operating centre manages<br />
even the smallest jobs to be carried<br />
out on the high-voltage facilities.<br />
"We must have a complete overview.<br />
Only then can we make sure<br />
We handle enormous assets<br />
on behalf of the <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
society. It feels important.<br />
Production planner Kristian Aune<br />
… is People & Power's informal lunch<br />
contest, where the question is: which<br />
department has the greatest lung<br />
capacity in the <strong>Statkraft</strong> system?<br />
The best entry each year will receive<br />
a surprise by post.<br />
First out is the production department<br />
at Dalen in Telemark, which is currently<br />
in the lead, for obvious reasons.<br />
that the facilities are running well,<br />
and that the people who work to<br />
repair them can do so safely," says<br />
production engineer Bouke Bouman.<br />
He and the other production<br />
engineers are also assisted by good<br />
colleagues who monitor water levels<br />
and environmental impact, and<br />
who make sure that all of the power<br />
plants receive proper maintenance<br />
at the right time.<br />
Heart of the production<br />
The employees at <strong>Statkraft</strong>'s operating<br />
centre in Dalen are proud of<br />
their workplace.<br />
a test of strength …<br />
"We sit at the heart of the production<br />
process, and we handle<br />
enormous assets on behalf of<br />
the <strong>No</strong>rwegian society. It feels<br />
important," says production planner<br />
Kristian Aune.<br />
"It is also good to know that we are<br />
working with renewable energy,<br />
which is significant in a global<br />
context," adds production manager<br />
Hege Jonassen Verpe.<br />
The fact that <strong>Statkraft</strong> is becoming<br />
a major interna tional<br />
industry player has ripple<br />
effects far into Telemark's<br />
deep forests. Dalen employees are<br />
already involved in several international<br />
projects, and more jobs are<br />
waiting.<br />
"This means new opportunities.<br />
An assignment abroad would be<br />
exciting," concludes Axel Lang, who<br />
is the veteran of two short-term assignments<br />
in Albania and Laos.<br />
170mA<br />
For the record: The result is measured<br />
in milliamperes, and the highest<br />
readable level is what counts.<br />
26 statkraft people & power 27
hse<br />
injury development<br />
Foto <strong>No</strong>rman Kjærvik<br />
Stricter rules for<br />
snowmobiles<br />
and helicopters<br />
One example of <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s safety work is<br />
the recent move towards stricter training<br />
requirements for helicopter pilots and<br />
snowmobile drivers. This is definitely relevant,<br />
as <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s 70 snowmobiles drive<br />
about 100 000 kilometres every year and<br />
the helicopters fly 1 500 hours for <strong>Statkraft</strong>.<br />
“We have fortunately avoided serious<br />
accidents, but according to our statistics,<br />
snowmobiles have been involved in<br />
several critical incidents in recent years,”<br />
says Kirsti Elsfjordstrand in <strong>Statkraft</strong>. As<br />
regards to helicopters, statistics show<br />
that the number of incidents have fallen<br />
since the mid-‘90s. However, <strong>Statkraft</strong> still<br />
wants to make the rules stricter.<br />
The objective is<br />
zero injuries<br />
“If you assume that accidents will occur, they will. The only acceptable<br />
objective is zero injuries. There is no alternative in <strong>Statkraft</strong> anymore,”<br />
states HSE director Torbjørn Lyngestad categorically.<br />
And this mentality seems to be<br />
working: The group safety results<br />
are the best ever – never before<br />
have the number and extent of the<br />
injuries been so low.<br />
Bigger challenges. Best ever is not<br />
good enough for Lyngestad: “I am very<br />
pleased that we are better than ever,<br />
but let us not get complacent. We are<br />
really just beginning to understand what<br />
our ambition means, and the safety<br />
challenges have never been greater. We<br />
are growing in new markets and in new<br />
technologies. We expand geographically<br />
and are operating in an increasingly<br />
complex portfolio of ownership interests<br />
where we do not have direct control.”<br />
Lyngestad is therefore more than ever<br />
keen to create a safety culture which<br />
saturates <strong>Statkraft</strong> on all levels. The<br />
ambition is to be open, comply with<br />
guidelines and requirements and show<br />
a will for continuous improvement.<br />
Time for change. “This means that every<br />
day, and not just today, will be a time for<br />
change and a time for learning. But just<br />
writing it will not make it happen, we must<br />
do it and, not least, wish it and want it.”<br />
Lyngestad is inspired by <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s<br />
production unit. The business unit has<br />
now delivered its best safety results<br />
ever. So far in 2008, every other month<br />
has been injury-free, and the unit’s<br />
registered number of HSE deviations is<br />
at a record low.<br />
“More and more managers display a<br />
personal commitment to safety,” says<br />
Lyngestad. “In addition, more cases of<br />
undesirable HSE risk are recorded, and<br />
I am very pleased that we<br />
are better than ever, but<br />
let us not get complacent.<br />
HSE director Torbjørn Lyngestad.<br />
more and more people are showing a<br />
will to improve systems, processes and<br />
behaviour. We are not yet as good as<br />
the top international companies – but<br />
we are getting there!”<br />
Like in sports. The development is<br />
not random – results and behaviour correlate,<br />
Lyngestad believes.<br />
“Our culture must be characterized<br />
by learning, and maybe we can learn<br />
something from the best in international<br />
team sports. They convert their<br />
ambitious goals into a focus on their<br />
own behaviour: work tasks and training<br />
where the potential is greatest.”<br />
HSE director<br />
Torbjørn<br />
Lyngestad.<br />
Our responsibility. <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s vision<br />
and ambitious growth strategy open up<br />
for other business opportunities, exciting<br />
projects and new cooperation relations.<br />
“At the same time, we are more exposed<br />
to risk than ever as regards to HSE,<br />
and it is our responsibility that safety<br />
is taken seriously in all ownership positions<br />
– by our own employees, consultants,<br />
suppliers and partners.”<br />
These days, the risk can most<br />
easily be identified in our ownership<br />
in the company SN Power.<br />
“The <strong>No</strong>rwegian media coverage<br />
of the situation concerning fatalities<br />
in hydropower projects in<br />
India and Chile is a liability. SN Power<br />
is working very hard to address these<br />
challenges, and it is our responsibility to<br />
support this effort,” says Lyngestad.<br />
Everyone contributes. HSE is often<br />
associated with operational activities<br />
and manual labour. In a growth phase<br />
such as the one we are now experiencing,<br />
Lyngestad emphasizes the importance of<br />
all staff areas using their opportunities<br />
to influence developments.<br />
“This can be in connection with management<br />
systems and process areas,<br />
risk assessments, agreements and supplier<br />
requirements,” says Lyngestad.<br />
The <strong>Statkraft</strong> group’s HSE principles<br />
1. A concern for health and safety shall characterise all activities.<br />
2. The health and safety culture shall be characterised by openness,<br />
a will to comply and continuous improvement.<br />
3. We shall avoid injuries and health problems at all times.<br />
4. We shall motivate for and facilitate a healthy and safe lifestyle.<br />
5. Buildings, facilities and infrastructure must be carefully safeguarded.<br />
6. We shall be prepared for serious accidents and critical situations.<br />
Everyone in<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> shall<br />
be properly<br />
safeguarded.<br />
Even reduction in the number of injuries<br />
35<br />
30<br />
25<br />
20<br />
15<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Q3/08<br />
Lost time<br />
injury index<br />
(TRI)<br />
(Injuries<br />
divided by<br />
the number of<br />
working hours<br />
x 1 000 000)<br />
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THE POSITION<br />
tima iyer<br />
Tima Iyer<br />
Head of Southeast Europe<br />
Business Unit.<br />
Chartered accountant and IT auditor<br />
with a British BSC in mathematics.<br />
Lives at Høvik near Oslo.<br />
Married with two children.<br />
Leisure activities: We head for the<br />
mountains about every second weekend<br />
during the winter, for cross-country<br />
(preferably) and downhill skiing. I<br />
learnt to ski next to a golf course, and<br />
thought the ground was very bumpy!<br />
I have also done the 38 km Skarverennet<br />
race and tried snowboarding. In the<br />
summer we spend time at our holiday<br />
home in Havstenssund in Sweden with<br />
kayaking, sailing, golf and jogging.<br />
BORDERLESS<br />
Tima Iyer<br />
Born in India. Grew up<br />
and trained in England.<br />
Married a <strong>No</strong>rwegian. <strong>No</strong>w<br />
she heads up our work in<br />
Southeast Europe. Few if any<br />
of our <strong>Statkraft</strong> people are<br />
as borderless as Tima Iyer.<br />
Text Stein Morch photo Erik Thallaug<br />
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THE POSITION<br />
The management<br />
style and<br />
communication style<br />
are characterised by<br />
openness, competence,<br />
progress and<br />
high ambitions.<br />
Tirana, Podgorica, Belgrade, Bucharest,<br />
Sofia, Ankara. Tima Iyer spends more<br />
time in Southeast Europe than in<br />
the headquarters at Lilleaker these<br />
days. She and 25 colleagues are<br />
on the look out for good hydropower<br />
projects and cooperation partners in Albania,<br />
Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,<br />
Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.<br />
Tima has just returned to <strong>No</strong>rway after three<br />
days in Albania and Montenegro.<br />
“What brought me to <strong>Statkraft</strong>? You might well ask!”<br />
Tima leans back in the sofa outside El Café at<br />
Lilleaker, and laughs before continuing. Her CV<br />
shows a British education in economics, and her<br />
professional life began with four years in the Avon<br />
County administration in Southwest England.<br />
“It was a man, of course,” she says, laughing<br />
again. “We had really intended to go to Sweden,<br />
but that was called off and we were offered an<br />
opportunity in <strong>No</strong>rway instead. <strong>No</strong>w we have<br />
been here for 21 years, and with a <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
husband, boys of 10 and 13 and a normal<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian family life, I probably should switch<br />
from British to <strong>No</strong>rwegian citizenship soon.”<br />
To Kent as a one-year-old<br />
Tima started her journey into the world in<br />
Mumbai, India, in 1960. Her father was a<br />
university lecturer and her mother was a student.<br />
Although they were of the same caste, it was<br />
not acceptable to fall in love with and marry<br />
someone of one’s own choice.<br />
The family chose to move to England – at first<br />
just the father and mother – to a job in the Bank<br />
of India. The grandparents and one-year-old Tima<br />
Tima meets the Albanian minister of<br />
economy, trade and energy, Genc Ruli.<br />
followed six months later. “As a result, I was an<br />
adult before I met one half of my family,” she says.<br />
She grew up in Kent outside London. At home,<br />
at play and at school, the language of everyday<br />
life was English. Tima attended a girls’ school<br />
and then studied at Bristol University for three<br />
years, training to be an accountant, while<br />
working as a trainee and economist in Avon.<br />
By 1987 she was ready to expand her horizons.<br />
From accounting to energy<br />
“A chance contact in the accounting and consultancy<br />
company KPMG led to an opportunity in<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway,” she explains. "At first for six months,<br />
but then the engagement was extended and I<br />
stayed on for 16 years as an accountant, consultant,<br />
partner and head of department. I got to<br />
know a wide variety of <strong>No</strong>rwegian businesses.”<br />
In 2004 she was looking for something new<br />
and interesting – something of an international<br />
caliber. She spent one year as director of management<br />
consulting in <strong>No</strong>rconsult, and then a year<br />
in SN Power as director with special responsibility<br />
for communications and social responsibility.<br />
From January 2006 she has been working with<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> and Southeast Europe.<br />
Informal working atmosphere<br />
“From the New Year, every fifth <strong>Statkraft</strong> employee<br />
will be located outside <strong>No</strong>rway. What would you<br />
Arrival Tirana with<br />
Simen Bræin, advisor<br />
government<br />
relations.<br />
say to those who wonder what it will be like to<br />
work with us?”<br />
“It is first of all a very informal working environment<br />
with very little hierarchy. It is easy to get in<br />
touch with colleagues and managers at all levels.<br />
The management style and communication style<br />
are characterised by openness, competence,<br />
progress and high ambitions. At the same time,<br />
people trust you to organise your own work, with<br />
flexible working hours and a home office if that is<br />
more convenient.<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegians think it is important that people get<br />
out into the open air,” she says. “In our leadership<br />
meetings the programme includes time to go for a<br />
run before dinner. That is almost obligatory.”<br />
“There’s nothing negative?”<br />
“Yes, some bureaucracy. And high ambitions<br />
can be such a challenge that it becomes frustrating.<br />
As it is in other companies,” she says.<br />
Assignment: more clean energy<br />
Tima believes that those who join <strong>Statkraft</strong> now<br />
will be part of an exciting period.<br />
“Our task is to find more hydropower opportunities.<br />
As we take up this task we are already<br />
Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy,<br />
and one fourth of our production capacity is<br />
located abroad,” Tima states.<br />
The degree of success depends not least on the<br />
Southeast Europe unit, with Tima as acting director.<br />
“We are particularly interested in hydro power<br />
development and rehabilitation as well as<br />
acquisitions. There is no shortage of opportunities<br />
and potential: Turkey alone has hydropower<br />
potential as large as the rest of Southeast<br />
Europe put together, around 125 TWh. Several<br />
of these countries are now getting ready to sell<br />
government-owned power stations. We are also<br />
keeping an eye out for opportunities in wind<br />
power, solar power and gas power,” she says.<br />
From Slovenia to Turkey<br />
During Tima’s three years in <strong>Statkraft</strong> her assignment<br />
has focused on Southeast Europe. This<br />
region stretches from Slovenia in the west to<br />
Romania in the north and Turkey in the southeast.<br />
It is not hard to understand why the five people<br />
who did the preparatory work (general assessment,<br />
strategy and the initial contacts) during<br />
2006-2007, have now grown to a staff of 25.<br />
“We now have expats as well as local employees<br />
in Belgrade, Podgorica, Tirana and Bucharest.<br />
We cooperate closely with <strong>Statkraft</strong> Markets<br />
Continental in the whole region. We have 17<br />
people based in the main office, looking after<br />
the areas of strategy and business development,<br />
finance and technology,” Tima sums up.<br />
After a lot of travel and many meetings with<br />
authorities and partners, Tima is now well acquainted<br />
with the region’s countries and people.<br />
“I suppose I travel to Southeast Europe every<br />
second or third week,” she says.<br />
Albania first?<br />
Through signing the concession agreement with<br />
the Albanian government, EVN AG and <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
were awarded the right to develop the hydropower<br />
project on the Devoll river in Albania.<br />
Several other projects in Southeast Europe are now<br />
nearing finalisation with partners and authorities.<br />
“Most of them involve construction of new<br />
hydropower plants. We are in a good position for<br />
other projects in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina<br />
and Montenegro. In Turkey and Montenegro the<br />
governments are also preparing for privatisation<br />
of big government-owned power stations, and<br />
this might start as soon as next year,” Tima says.<br />
Southeast Europe now has the best opportunities<br />
for expansion in the European power sector,<br />
and all the big power companies are there.<br />
“We were there early, one of just a few to start<br />
with, and we are well positioned. We have demonstrated<br />
a commitment to achieve something, we<br />
have signed cooperation agreements and are<br />
well known. Our history as a government-owned<br />
company, without being a giant, and our experience<br />
from hydropower and a free power market, create<br />
an interest. Most people here don’t yet emphasise<br />
renewable, clean energy as much as we do. But as<br />
their goal is EU membership, both liberalisation and<br />
more renewable energy will be high on these countries’<br />
agenda in the years to come,” Tima points out.<br />
<strong>No</strong> shortcuts!<br />
“Isn’t this also about political issues and business<br />
cultures that might offer some other challenges<br />
than the ones we are used to in <strong>No</strong>rthern Europe?”<br />
Good chemistry<br />
between different nationalities<br />
at a seminar<br />
at Fornebu: Stephane<br />
Barbeau, originally from<br />
Canada, Tima Iyer and<br />
Biserka Tmusic from<br />
Serbia.<br />
“We are closely watching what is taking place<br />
in politics as well as in business life, and it<br />
is important to us to have a broad range of<br />
contacts. We underline to authorities as well as<br />
business partners that we recomend the use of<br />
transparent processes. All contracts contain a<br />
clause on zero tolerance for corruption, and we<br />
do a careful analysis of our business partners.<br />
Like everyone else, we receive creative proposals<br />
quite regularly. It is an advantage to have<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian managers, who are seen as having<br />
easy access to the top decision makers, and to<br />
have local employees who know the local conditions<br />
and can help make us and our attitudes<br />
known locally in an efficient way.”<br />
“What do you think the situation will be in ten<br />
years’ time?”<br />
“By then we must have a considerable power<br />
production. Our current ambition is to have decided<br />
on investments for 1,2 TWh in 2015. And<br />
that should be within our reach.”<br />
Bonding across borders<br />
“How will internationalisation change <strong>Statkraft</strong>?”<br />
“There will be some changes with regard to<br />
tima iyer<br />
management and language, I expect. A management<br />
that is just <strong>No</strong>rwegian will not seem natural.<br />
We must ensure that our overseas activities and<br />
employees are looked after as well and are given<br />
as much attention as those in <strong>No</strong>rway.<br />
“What about the language? It is easy to say the<br />
solution is to use as much English as possible.<br />
But it’s not all that easy to speak English on a<br />
daily basis if we’re working in <strong>No</strong>rway, Sweden,<br />
It is important that we get to know<br />
each other across national borders.<br />
And there is certainly a great deal of<br />
mutual attention and interest.<br />
The World Bank is an important partner. Here is the bank’s representative<br />
in Albania, Demetrios Papathanasiou, and from the left<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s Simen Bræin, Tima Iyer and Bredo Erichsen.<br />
Always new preparations between<br />
frequent meetings in Tirana.<br />
Germany or the Netherlands.”<br />
“Over time we must use more English. This<br />
makes sense when you have several nationalities<br />
working together. In our unit most people are<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian, but it is absolutely necessary for us<br />
to have our documentation in English. In our day<br />
to day work, however, it will still be natural to communicate<br />
in our local languages, with <strong>No</strong>rwegian<br />
in <strong>No</strong>rway and German in Germany, and so on.”<br />
“<strong>No</strong>w we are welcoming over 200 new colleagues.<br />
How big a challenge will this be?”<br />
“It is no small challenge, and a lot of work has<br />
already gone into it. It is important that we get to<br />
know each other across national borders.<br />
I am looking forward to becoming more<br />
international with <strong>Statkraft</strong>!”<br />
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personell<br />
Text Yvonne Dybwad photo Stein Morch<br />
The right competence<br />
at the right time<br />
“If we are to achieve the strategic goals we have set, it is crucial to<br />
have employees with the right competence at the right time,” says<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s vice president of human resources, Beate Hamre Deck.<br />
STATKRAFT IS IN A STRONG GROWTH PHASE.<br />
This means many new people are to be recruited.<br />
“At the same time we must facilitate development<br />
of the employees we already have so that they can<br />
take on new challenges and perform optimally. We<br />
are well underway,” assures HR vice president<br />
Beate Hamre Deck.<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>’s HR Department works systematically<br />
on helping managers set goals for the employees<br />
and prepare development plans, at the same time<br />
as development measures are implemented through<br />
management courses, coaching, career plans and<br />
technical courses. Many employees also find it exciting<br />
to transfer to other jobs within the organisation.<br />
Beate Hamre Deck emphasises that a lot<br />
will change when <strong>Statkraft</strong> goes from being a<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian hydropower producer to becoming an<br />
HR Vice President Beate<br />
Hamre Deck is concerned<br />
about multi-lingual<br />
competence<br />
international company within renewable energy.<br />
“This creates other demands on the organisation.<br />
We must become even better at cooperating and<br />
thinking innovatively. Multi-lingual skills become<br />
increasingly important and we must make room for<br />
more disciplines,” she says.<br />
She finds it interesting to head the HR process. At<br />
the same time she feels humble in the face of the<br />
tasks she and the rest of the organisation will be<br />
handling.<br />
“HR can design tools and provide support, but the<br />
line managers must do the biggest job. Close contact<br />
between HR, line managers and employee representatives<br />
will therefore be even more important in the<br />
future. We particularly need good managers who<br />
motivate and bring out the best in our employees,<br />
and who achieve interaction,” says Hamre Deck.<br />
30<br />
District heating<br />
covers about<br />
30 per cent of<br />
Trondheim’s<br />
heating<br />
requirements.<br />
150<br />
A total of 150<br />
kilometres of pipe<br />
have been laid<br />
all over Trondheim<br />
for district<br />
heating.<br />
18428<br />
Germany is the<br />
European country<br />
that produces the<br />
most wind power:<br />
18 428 MW.<br />
(www.ewea.org)<br />
New energy<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> <strong>No</strong>rway<br />
Maja Egeland,<br />
Trainee Strategy<br />
Grethe Skaarn,<br />
Accounting Assistant, Region<br />
Khai Nguyen,<br />
Controller, Accounting<br />
Depart.<br />
Turid Strand,<br />
Adviser, Communication<br />
and Social Responsibility<br />
Ole Kristian Gravrok,<br />
Adviser, IT and Processes<br />
Mark Ivin,<br />
Vice-President, Finance<br />
Freddy Hafskjold,<br />
Section Manager,<br />
IT and Processes<br />
Mikjel Bjercke,<br />
Adviser, IT and Processes<br />
Simen Bræin,<br />
Special Adviser, Communication<br />
and Corporate<br />
Social Responsibility<br />
Lars Magnus Günther,<br />
Adviser, Communication<br />
and Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility<br />
Sandro Olivieri,<br />
Analyst, Solkraft<br />
Olav Peter Hypher,<br />
Manager, Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility, Communication<br />
and Corporate<br />
Social Responsibility<br />
Eivind Heløe,<br />
Manager, Public Affairs,<br />
Communication and Corporate<br />
Social Responsibility<br />
Torunn Solbraa Ramos,<br />
Chief Accounts Officer,<br />
Back Office<br />
Stephan Skaane,<br />
Analyst, Front Office<br />
Cathrine Bull Wiik,<br />
Accounting Assistant,<br />
Accounting Dept.<br />
Ellen Sofie Hunsbedt,<br />
Manager, Recruitment and<br />
Introduction, HR<br />
Lene B. Sveen,<br />
Personnel Adviser, Recruitment<br />
and Introduction, HR<br />
Rune Øyan,<br />
Project Manager,<br />
Innovation and Growth<br />
Chr Fredrik Grøner,<br />
Project Manager,<br />
Southeast Europe<br />
Jørgen Olsen,<br />
Trainee, Windpower<br />
Morten de la Forest,<br />
Project Manager,<br />
Innovation and Growth<br />
Geir Magnar Brekke,<br />
Specialist, Innovation and<br />
Growth<br />
Øystein Jerkø Kostøl,<br />
Trainee Windpower<br />
Johan Wergeland Brekke,<br />
Project Manager,<br />
Innovation and Growth<br />
Ellen Lidgren,<br />
Advisor, Innovation<br />
and Growth<br />
Gori Singh Bains,<br />
Junior Controller,<br />
Windpower<br />
Kjell Øivind Oulie,<br />
Analyst, Energy Disposal<br />
<strong>No</strong>rdic Countries<br />
Siv Helen Lillehauge,<br />
Skilled Worker Trainee<br />
Maintenance Gr. Høyanger<br />
Stian Ossi Næs,<br />
Apprentice Energy<br />
Operator Mauranger<br />
Marte Lind,<br />
Trainee, Energy Disposal<br />
<strong>No</strong>rdic Countries<br />
Maren Sisilie P Jone,<br />
Trainee, Region<br />
<strong>No</strong>rthern <strong>No</strong>rway<br />
Hege Kvernmoen,<br />
Adviser, Production<br />
Henning Syvertsen,<br />
Section Manager, Production<br />
Hanne Guri Haavik<br />
Bøhmer,<br />
Specialist, Trading and<br />
Continental Operations<br />
Bjørn Moen,<br />
Skilled Worker –<br />
Mechanical.<br />
Maintenance Gr.<br />
Ulla-Førde Mek.<br />
New names in <strong>Statkraft</strong> in the<br />
period 1 August to 31 October<br />
Trond Nærheim,<br />
Apprentice – Industrial<br />
Mechanic, Maintenance Gr.<br />
Ulla-Førde Mek.<br />
Svein Elgstøen,<br />
System Consultant,<br />
Trading and Continental<br />
Operations<br />
André Soot,<br />
Hydrologist, Energy Disposal<br />
<strong>No</strong>rdic Countries<br />
Asgeir Petersen-<br />
Øverleir,<br />
Hydrologist. Energy Disposal<br />
<strong>No</strong>rdic Countries<br />
Aleksander Marek<br />
Derdowski,<br />
Trainee, Production<br />
Harald Hole<br />
Dietrichson,<br />
Trainee, Production<br />
Jon Peder Gjesdal,<br />
Trainee, Trading and<br />
Continental Operations<br />
Petter Fosse<br />
Schreiner,<br />
Trainee, Trading and<br />
Continental Operations<br />
Endre Jacobsen,<br />
Trainee, Production<br />
Marius Røthe Arnesen,<br />
Trainee, Energy Disposal<br />
<strong>No</strong>rdic Countries<br />
André Damslora,<br />
Adviser, Trading and<br />
Continental Operations<br />
Arild Magne Gjerdevik,<br />
Power Plant Manager,<br />
Power Plant Group Aura<br />
Einar Kobro,<br />
Executive Officer,<br />
Technical, Technical and<br />
Maintenance, Region<br />
Eastern <strong>No</strong>rway<br />
Knut Fredrik Nes,<br />
Apprentice – Energy<br />
Operator, Maintenance<br />
Group, Jostedal<br />
Kenneth Rendal,<br />
Skilled Worker – Mechanical,<br />
Power Plant Group<br />
Glomfjord<br />
Stein Frode Tryti,<br />
Skilled Worker – Mechanical,<br />
Maintenance Gr. Vik<br />
Torgeir Funderud,<br />
Skilled Worker – Mechanical,<br />
Maintenance Group Mår<br />
Stig Engell, 26<br />
Skilled Worker Trainee,<br />
Power Plant Group Mår<br />
Jostein Eggerud,<br />
Executive Officer –<br />
Technical, Production<br />
Hugo Solbakken,<br />
Skilled Worker – Mechanical,<br />
Windpower<br />
John Eivind Jensen,<br />
Skilled Worker – Electrical,<br />
Maintenance Group Kobbelv<br />
Anette Neverdalen,<br />
Apprentice – Industrial<br />
Mechanic, Maintenance<br />
Group Tokke<br />
Morten Johan Vigdal,<br />
Skilled Worker – Maintenance<br />
Group Jostedal<br />
Hans Jakob Creutzig,<br />
Controller, Trading and<br />
Continental Operations<br />
Christian Braarud<br />
Hauknes,<br />
Adviser, Trading and<br />
Continental Operations<br />
Sven Hystad,<br />
Works Engineer, Production<br />
and River Systems<br />
Kai Vik Skjerdal,<br />
Apprentice, Energy<br />
Operator. Maintenance<br />
Group Eidfjord<br />
Kari Korsvolla,<br />
Executive Officer –<br />
Technical, Glomfjord<br />
Håvard Zahl <strong>No</strong>rdnes,<br />
Works Engineer Operations<br />
Centre Control<br />
Bjarne Sæther,<br />
Power Trader, Trondheim<br />
Torbjørn Tuften,<br />
Specialist, Technical and<br />
Maintenance Central<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway<br />
Kristine Vatnan,<br />
Sanitation Worker, Bjerka<br />
Henrik Karlsen,<br />
Skilled Worker Trainee,<br />
Power Plant Group <strong>No</strong>re<br />
Berge Østenstad,<br />
System Consultant,<br />
Trading and Continental<br />
Operations<br />
Hans Andreas Antonsen,<br />
Works Engineer, Region<br />
<strong>No</strong>rthern <strong>No</strong>rway<br />
Katrine J Aarstein,<br />
Financial Consultant,<br />
Trading and Continental<br />
Operations<br />
Jan-Olav Olsen,<br />
Skilled Worker Trainee,<br />
Maintenance Group<br />
Finnmark<br />
Ole Bull Romsdal,<br />
Skilled Worker – Electrical,<br />
Maintenance Group<br />
Finnmark<br />
Jan Tore Kvale,<br />
Skilled Worker Trainee,<br />
Maintenance Group<br />
Eidfjord<br />
Edvin Johannessen,<br />
Skilled Worker Trainee,<br />
Maintenance Group<br />
Mauranger<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> Markets<br />
germany<br />
Milena Wolff,<br />
Senior Accountant<br />
Anne Joeken,<br />
Communication Manager<br />
Marc Mertes,<br />
Controller<br />
Anna Maria Meurer,<br />
Junior Portfolio Manager<br />
Thomas Rinke,<br />
Junior Originator<br />
Servet Akgün,<br />
Cross Border Trader<br />
Lilian Dale,<br />
Gas Operations Manager<br />
Tobias Müller,<br />
Accountant<br />
Christel Harfeld,<br />
Accountant<br />
Jürgen Schenkewitz,<br />
Accountant<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> Markets<br />
Amsterdam<br />
Jo Deketelaere,<br />
Carbon Business<br />
Developer<br />
Lodewijk Antonides,<br />
ICT Coordinator,<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> Treasury<br />
Centre Brüssel<br />
Anne Wandevalle,<br />
Management assistant<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> sweden<br />
Kjell Stenklyft,<br />
General Manager<br />
Linda Åberg,<br />
HR Adviser, Production<br />
Gabriel Waaranperä,<br />
Technical Manager, Production<br />
Anders Sjödin,<br />
Technical Manager - River<br />
Systems, Production<br />
Mikael Hernqvist,<br />
Executive Officer,<br />
Production<br />
Joakim Lindström,<br />
Works Engineer, Production<br />
Roger Svensson,<br />
Works Engineer, Production<br />
Anders Åberg,<br />
Works Engineer, Production<br />
Trondheim Energi<br />
Arne Eidsli,<br />
Group Manager, Dept.<br />
Waste Receival, District<br />
Heating<br />
Gunnar Hovland,<br />
CEO, Trondheim Energi<br />
Kraftsalg<br />
Håvard Engjom,<br />
Construction Manager<br />
Leirfossene Power Plant<br />
John Kristian Evjen,<br />
Project Engineer Nett<br />
Entreprenør<br />
Tommy Gjølga,<br />
Consultant, Enita<br />
Ingebright Bævre,<br />
Chartered Engineer, Kraft<br />
How do you<br />
feel about<br />
working for<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong>?<br />
Jostein Eggerud,<br />
Executive Officer – Technical,<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> Lilleaker<br />
“<strong>Statkraft</strong> is a group with<br />
substantial international<br />
growth, which entails<br />
interesting tasks and major<br />
development potential. It<br />
is beneficial to society,<br />
valuable and motivating to<br />
be able to contribute to production<br />
and the development<br />
of clean energy.”<br />
Torunn Solbraa Ramos,<br />
Chief Accounts Officer,<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> Lilleaker<br />
“My background is in<br />
finance/IT, so for me it<br />
has been exciting to get<br />
to know <strong>Statkraft</strong>’s core<br />
activities and strategies.<br />
I had already heard a lot<br />
of positive things about<br />
the working environment,<br />
and so far this seems to<br />
agree with my experience.<br />
Øystein Kostøl,<br />
Trainee <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
“I am one of the 11 new<br />
trainees employed in the<br />
autumn and am extremely<br />
satisfied with the first job<br />
I chose. <strong>Statkraft</strong> is big<br />
and solid, but at the same<br />
time the organisation is<br />
dynamic. The commitment<br />
to new, eco-friendly<br />
energy makes me enthusiastic<br />
about my job.<br />
Linda Åberg,<br />
HR, <strong>Statkraft</strong><br />
Sverige AB<br />
”I began working for<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> in September<br />
and am proud to<br />
be part of developing<br />
the Swedish activities.<br />
This industry is<br />
exciting and my job<br />
satisfaction is tops!”<br />
<strong>Statkraft</strong> …<br />
… is the European leader in renewable energy.<br />
The group develops and produces hydropower,<br />
wind power, gas power, solar power and district<br />
heating, and is a significant player on the<br />
European energy exchanges. Through ownership<br />
in other companies, electricity and heating<br />
are delivered to about 600 000 customers in<br />
<strong>No</strong>rway. In 2007 <strong>Statkraft</strong> posted a profit after<br />
tax of EUR 827 million. The group has about 3 000<br />
employees in 20 countries. The world needs<br />
clean energy. <strong>Statkraft</strong> works with this every day.<br />
34 statkraft people & power 35
the story<br />
The train’s best friend<br />
The power plant that delivers electricity to the entire<br />
<strong>No</strong>rwegian railway network is located in Øvre Eiker in<br />
Buskerud County. It is still in full operation with the<br />
same units as pictured!<br />
akavik Power Plant was<br />
completed in 1922 following a<br />
Hconstruction period of four years.<br />
The power plant utilizes a waterfall of 389<br />
metres from Øksenvannet to Eikeren. Four<br />
Pelton turbines of a total of seven megawatt<br />
are installed, of which two are still in use.<br />
<strong>No</strong>rmal annual production is 21 GWh.<br />
“The plant delivers 16 2/3 Hz electricity and<br />
only the railway benefits from this. But converters<br />
have been placed around the country so<br />
that if there is a break in our supply the trains<br />
won’t stop due to this,” says Arne Grimnes<br />
who is in charge of operations at Hakavik.<br />
Grimnes has worked here since 1981,<br />
when there were 11 employees at Hakavik<br />
Power Plant alone. Grimnes has had sole<br />
Same<br />
units as in<br />
1922<br />
responsibility from 2002.<br />
“There’s enough to do. We contract firms<br />
for major work tasks, but I perform minor<br />
maintenance myself. There are also some<br />
lawns to keep track off,” he says.<br />
The power station is an imposing building<br />
and has been retained nearly identical to<br />
how it was built in the 1920s. The photo<br />
is probably from the early years after the<br />
power plant was completed.<br />
And perhaps the most remarkable feature:<br />
the units pictured are still in operation!<br />
“Apart from a few minor components,<br />
everything is as it was back then,” says<br />
Grimnes. “Most other plants have fully automated<br />
operations, but here we still have to<br />
start and stop the units manually.