Vilhjálmur Nielsen
Faroese, 42, M.Sc. Engineering (energy planning) and Ph.D. on external environmental costs of energy.from Technical University of Denmark. Working as a consultant in energy and climate policy and supporting cleantech startup companies.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.bitland.fo |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Education, Financial, Information Technology |
| Skills: | Business, Danish, Editing, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Norwegian, Swedish, Writing |
| Next step: | To establish Transatlantic Climate Institute as a global Centre of Excellence within transatlantic climate research and development |
| Location: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Groups: | Energy Crossroads |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Helping friends, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Shadowing, Sharing my projects |
| Tags: | climate, implementation, Innovation, learning, policy, renewable energy, research |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Bitland Enterprise, Faroe Islands |
| Position: | Associated Partner |
| Time period: | May 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Bitland Enterprise is a privately owned incubator which itself also is a an innovative startup company. The small startup companies join forces in interdiciplinary consulting projects as Bitland Consulting Group. The company is based in the Faroes, but is increasingly looking into international projects and markets. |
| Employer: | Energy Consulting Network, Denmark |
| Position: | Senior Consultant |
| Time period: | April 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Participation in several international projects on promotion of Renewable Energy in Europe and South East Asia. Special competence is within the Kyoto Flexible Mechanism (CDM and JI) and how these can be used as targeted instruments for Technology Transfer. |
| Employer: | Niras Consulting Engineers, Denmark |
| Position: | Senior Consultant |
| Time period: | November 2000 - February 2004 |
| Description: | Niras is a multidiciplinary consulting company with the core business in engineering. The job included Energy planning in Greenland, development of a risk assessment tool for implementation of energy savings in industry and especially development of the first operational manuals in the world on how to develop a JI or a CDM project. |
| Employer: | Technical University of Denmark |
| Position: | Assisting Research Professor |
| Time period: | May 1997 - October 2000 |
| Description: | Worked on several research projects on promotion on renewable energy. The projects included e.g. access to market information on renewable energy and energy policy, standardisation of technical information for modelling and decision support on the internet, analysis of different market instruments to support renewable energy. |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Danish Society of Engineers
Currently member for Steering committee for activities within Climate, Energy and Environment related to the Climate summit in Copenhagen 2009. Danish Society of Energy Law International Society of Ecological Economics International Association of Energy Economics |
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Energy Ethics
Think tank focused on the cross-sectoral deployment of renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency solutions in developing countries through research, investigations, projects and organising activities related to energy and climate change
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Walter J. Sanchez
Technical and socio-economic planner and Philosopher
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Dan Steketee
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .
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