As Senior Adviser at Nordic Energy Research, Maj Dang Trong assists the Nordic electricity market officials’ committee in their work with recommendations to the Nordic energy ministers. She is also involved in the work with the hydrogen programme.

Maj has over 25 years of energy and environmental experience. She has worked as an independent consultant and as an economist for Econ Center for Economic Analysis based in Oslo. Before moving to Norway, she worked six years for the Danish Energy Agency with renewable energy and was a member of the electricity reform group.

During 2007–2015, Maj worked as a consultant for Energinet, where she represented Denmark in the Smart Grid working Group. She also assisted Energinet with strategy documents, EU applications, and development and implementation of a large European research and demonstration project, where she was responsible for communication and user involvement.

Most recently, Maj has been working on her PhD dissertation, co-funded by the electricity company EWII and the University of Southern Denmark. The PhD thesis discusses different (grid) tariff models and households’ preferences, as how electricity grid companies’ engage private households with flexible electricity consumption.

Areas of expertise

Renewable energy, Analysis, Energy policy, Wind power, Energy efficiency, Smart grids, Energy markets, Sustainability, Solar energy

Languages

Danish, English