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Bård Vegar Solhjell

Former Minister of Education of Norway

Aug 13, 2026

9:37
What do you think are the key opportunities for collaboration between Norway and India in the renewable sector? Are there any concrete technologies or areas where there is a particularly good match, for example? Or what's your take on that?
9:55
That's a very good and important question.
9:58
I think I'll answer it in two ways.
10:02
First, where can India learn things from Norway or get technologies and capital competence from Norway? And where can we get competence and capital from India? Because they tend to differ a little bit.
10:18
So to start with the last part, of course, what's happening now on solar, especially on batteries in India, could potentially become very important, not only for Norway, but for Europe.
10:31
Because solar is being deployed now at a large scale also in Europe and increasingly with batteries.
10:39
But by now, we are very dependent on Chinese producers.

7 MINS LATER

17:46
And, you know, so there are several... things that we do and technologies that we have that will be useful, but would you like to elaborate a bit more on that? Why do you think Indian actors should build partnerships with Norway? What is special with Norway?

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