How Andrea turns Norway’s climate challenges into data models
Andrea Sævareid works as a Model Lead at Terravera while studying Energy and Environment at NTNU in Trondheim. In Terravera she develops sustainability models for our partner organisations, turning complex climate challenges into numbers that can be understood, tested, and improved.
Andrea Sævareid leads modelling projects that turn complex climate challenges into measurable decisions.
From energy ambition to life cycle analysis in practice
Andrea’s first project at Terravera was a digital life cycle analysis (LCA) of emissions and land use for hydropower, onshore wind, and solar energy. The project was carried out in collaboration with Vestland County Council and laid the foundation for further modelling of major Norwegian energy and land-use questions.
She is now building on this work in her master’s thesis at NTNU, where she explores how biodiversity loss can be quantified through life cycle analysis in the development and operation of hydropower, power lines, and roads.
Project lead and collaboration partner
As a project lead at Terravera, Andrea works closely with both data modellers and companies that take a systematic approach to sustainability. These include:
Fremtind
Bue Salmon
Invertapro
ogether with other modelling leads, Madelene Stoltenberg and Jørgen Stenersen, she has developed practical deliverables and working methods that make data-driven sustainability understandable and actionable for organisations.
Interdisciplinary work — from energy to textiles
Andrea has also worked on sustainability in the clothing industry together with Ingrid Stillesby Mauritzen from the foundation, a field she gained strong experience in during her time at the NGO Future in Our Hands.
The project demonstrated how Terravera’s models can make complex value chains — materials, production, use, and disposal — measurable in a transparent way.
Models as decision support — not narratives
At Terravera, Andrea is part of a modelling team made up of students with diverse academic backgrounds. They work across disciplines — energy, biology, economics, and systems thinking — to solve concrete sustainability challenges.
The work focuses on transparent calculations, scenarios, and life cycle perspectives that can be tested, challenged, and verified.
“We develop models based on research so that our partners have a solid foundation for sound and sustainable decisions.”
Andrea Sævareid is actively engaged in climate work through the ZERO Academy.
Leadership and climate policy
Andrea is a participant in the ZERO Academy, a climate leadership programme run by the environmental foundation ZERO for young professionals in politics, business, the public sector, and academia.
Through the programme, she builds connections between knowledge, decisions, and implementation — a perspective she brings into her work with Terravera’s models. This perspective strengthens Terravera’s work in turning complex sustainability questions into measurable decisions.
