Olav Bjarte Fosso (1958) was a Professor at the Department of Electric Energy, NTNU, from 2002 to 2023. He is currently a Professor Emeritus (NTNU), Senior Research Scientist (SINTEF Energy Research - Part-time), Consultant, and Independent Researcher.
He has previously held positions as Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research (1989 – 2002) and Scientific Advisor (2002 – 2010). Fosso has an MSc and a PhD in Power Engineering from NTNU. He was the Head of the Department of Electric Power Engineering from 2009 to 2013. He was the Director of NTNU's Strategic Research Area Energy from September 2014 to September 2016. He held the role of a Scientific Coordinator of FME Cineldi (Research Center on Smartgrids) (2021 – 2023).
His research activities involve hydropower planning (short-, medium, and long-term), market integration of intermittent generation, smart energy systems, and signal analysis for the study of power system dynamics and stability.
Honorary Member of CIGRE, previously Chairman of CIGRE SC C5 Electricity Markets and Regulation and Member of CIGRE Technical Committee (2008 - 2014)
Chairman of board NOWITECH (Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology) (2015-2017), board member since 2011
Board member of Energy21 (2015-2018) (Norwegian National Strategy for Research, Development, Demonstration and Commercialization of New Energy Technology)
Editor: "International Transactions of Electric Power Systems" (2011-2016)
Editorial Advisory Panel: "Electric Power Systems Research" (2002 - 2013)
Expert Evaluator Horizon 2020, Swiss National Science Foundation, Dutch research agency Technology Foundation STW, ASTAR in Singapore and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).
Scientific Assessment Committees (Professor, PhD): Australia, Denmark, France, India, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Switzerland, Saudi-Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, and Turkey)
Board member of European Wind Energy Master (EWEM) and coordinator of the Electrical Engineering track at NTNU. Erasmus-Mundus funded joint program between DTU - Denmark, TU Delft – Netherlands, University of Oldenburg – Germany, and NTNU – Norway.
Associate Editor: "Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy Systems" (2021 - )
Power System Operation with emphasis on steady state security assessment and control
Tools and techniques for transmission system analysis (Security-constrained optimal power flow, congestion management, post-contingency rescheduling, decomposition principles, and iterative techniques)
Operations research methods for resource scheduling and transmission operation, particularly tools for short-term hydro scheduling
Tools and techniques for voltage stability calculations – steady state and dynamic methods
Algorithms for dynamic simulation and eigenvalue calculations
Modelling of power electronic equipment in power system network analysis
Renewable energy integration – modeling, analysis, and market design