The EL-TRAN Consortium

Works to rethink the totality of the electric energy system

How to use resources more efficiently to produce electricity and heat?
How to design and scale the electricity transmission grid?
How to best support flexible consumption of electricity?
How do we ensure the whole electric energy system – including the use of electricity in the transport, housing and building sectors – becomes more climate neutral?

While the main thrust of our work concentrates on Finland, we also make comparisons to the energy transitions underway in the Nordic countries, Germany and beyond. These transitions involve policy problems which we wish to help resolve.

The Consortium is coordinated by the University of Tampere. It is part of the programme ’A Climate-Neutral and Resource-Scarce Finland’. This programme is funded by the Strategic Research Council. The EL-TRAN consortium is funded 3.2Me during 2015-17.

El-tran consortium research plan

Consortium Leader
Prof. Pami Aalto, University of Tampere/School of Management
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Consortium Deputy Leader
Prof. Pertti Järventausta, Tampere University of Technology/Department of Electrical Energy Engineering
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Coordinator
Postdoctoral Researcher Matti Kojo, University of Tampere/School of Management
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Research Groups

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University of Tampere (UTA) www.uta.fi/en
Principal Investigator (PI): Prof. Pami Aalto, University of Tampere/School of Management
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University of Eastern Finland (UEF) www.uef.fi/en/etusivu
PI: Prof. Kim Talus/Law School
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Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) www.tamk.fi/web/tamken
PI: Pirkko Harsia/Building Services Engineering

 

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Tampere University of Technology (TUT) www.tut.fi/en/home
PI: Prof. Pertti Järventausta/ Department of Electrical Energy Engineering
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University of Turku (UTU) www.utu.fi
PI: Dr. Jyrki Luukkanen/ Finland Futures Research Centre
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) www.vttresearch.com
PI: Dr. Hannele Holttinen

 

Our stakeholder Panel is key to the consortium’s work and includes representatives from several Finnish energy companies, public authorities and NGOs.