Tomas Moe Skjølsvold

PhD Project: Strategies for commercialisation and market development of new renewable energy-technology

The project seeks to examine innovation, implementation and commercialisation of bio energy and related technologies from the suppliers' point of view. With this in mind, its main purpose is to perform a comparison between Norway and Sweden. At a general level the project aims to study different efforts at utilizing bio energy that has resulted in successful implementation, commercialisation and market development in the two countries.

Scientific Publications

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe.  Curb Your Enthusiasm: On Media Communication of Bioenergy and the Role of the News Media in Technology Diffusion (Forthcoming, accepted for publication in Environmental Communication.)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe.  Publics in the pipeline: On Bioenergy and its imagined publics in Norway and Sweden (Forthcoming in Möllers & Zachmann(eds.) Past and Present energy societies. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. (link to info)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe (2012) 'Power plants' in Zimring & Rathje (eds.) Encyclopedia of consumption and waste: the social science of garbage. Sage Publications

Ryghaug, Marianne and Tomas Moe Skjølsvold (2010) The Global Warming of Climate Science: Climategate and the Construction of Scientific Facts. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2010 ;Volum 24.(3) s. 287-307 (link)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe (2010) One size fits all? Designer-institutions: Lessons from two flawed attempts in Malawi. International Journal of the Commons 2010 ;Volum 4.(2) s. 758-771 (link)

Popular publications and commentary

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe (2012) Den vanskelige energikulturen. Kronikk i Aftenposten (link)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe (2011) Tor A. Benjaminsen og Hanne Svarstad: Politisk Økologi. Book review, Sosiologisk Tidsskrift 19(3) (link)

Ryghaug, Marianne and Tomas Moe Skjølsvold (2011) Ikke juks og bedrag. Adresseavisen (link)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe (2010) Et grønt Paradoks. Adresseavisen (link)

Hansen, Gard Hopsdal, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold and Jøran Solli (2009) Opprett klimadepartementet! Dagens Næringsliv (link)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe and Gard Hopsdal Hansen (2009) De grønne gründerne. Dagbladet (link)

Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe (2009) Norske avisers klimasvik. Dagbladet (link)