Muhammad Tabish Parray (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend his PhD “Strategies for optimal sizing and operation of battery storage systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for large electricity consumers” Tuesday 17 March, 2026.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis:
“Strategies for optimal sizing and operation of battery storage systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for large electricity consumers”
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Strategier for optimal dimensjonering og drift av batterilagringssystemer og infrastruktur for elektriske kjøretøy for store strømforbrukere"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture
"Grid flexibility and grid inertia: Issues, current developments, and roles of battery energy storage systems"
Time and place for trial lecture and public defence
Tuesday 17 March 2026, at 12.15 Gullvepsen, Bikuben
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Dr. Peter Bach Andersen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark).
Second opponent: Dr. Sonja Monica Berlijn (DNV, Sweden)
Committee coordinator: Professor Muyiwa Samuel Adaramola (MINA/NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Thomas Martinsen (MINA/NMBU).
Co-supervisors: Professor Mads Greaker (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) and Associate Professor Eirik Ogner Jåstad (MINA/NMBU)
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.