Our advisors combine deep industry expertise and operational management experience with good business understanding and strong analytical skills.
Our clients are among the leading players in the power sector in the Nordic region. This means Xrgia is continuously challenged to develop practical solutions to address the challenges our clients face.
Tommy Løvstad
Managing Director and Partner
Tommy has extensive experience from the energy and telecom industries, with senior positions in companies including Agder Energi, Telenor and Norsk Hydro. He holds a MSc from NTNU and studies in industrial economics from KTH in Stockholm.
Through Xrgia, Tommy has worked on strategy and business development, process improvement and project development in major energy and infrastructure projects. He led the NorGer and NorthConnect cable projects, international joint ventures established to develop HVDC interconnectors between Norway and Germany and Scotland respectively. He has also led business development at SAE Vind, the onshore wind development company jointly owned by Statkraft and Agder Energi (now Å Energi).
Since 2022, Tommy has worked on the transmission system and grid connection for offshore wind in Scotland, where the he grid reform in the UK market has been key.
Tor Saunes
Associated Partner
Tor has many years of experience in operational management and the execution of complex projects. He holds a MSc in Engineering from NTNU and a MSc in Business from NHH. For the past fifteen years, Tor has worked in the energy industry, and prior to this, in telecom and venture capital.
Through Xrgia, Tor has held operational leadership roles in major energy and infrastructure projects, with responsibility for project management, risk, and planning. In the NorthConnect project, he served as risk manager, planner, and head of PMO. In SAE Vind, Tor was the project manager for developing the business plan. He has also been the project manager for Statkraft’s test turbine project at Smøla. For Sira-Kvina Kraftselskap, Tor has led projects within energy management and hydropower, organizational development and improvement of work processes.
Tor’s strength lies in leading projects and processes with multidisciplinary challenges that involve both technology and business development.
Klaus Vogstad
Associated Partner
Klaus Vogstad holds an MSc in Mech Eng and a PhD in Electr. Eng. NTNU, and has been working in the power industry for 12 years as special adviser Dept of Energy mgmt and trade, then as Head of CoE Wind & Site for SAE wind. He has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Dept of industrial Economics, NTNU
In recent years Vogstad worked as senior analyst at Meventus AS. Vogstad develops ParkOptimizer and WindFarmDesigns , decision support tools for wind farm development now used worldwide. His expertise include decision support modeling, hydropower, wind power and business process optimization