Norway energy mix and exports

Norway is mostly hydro but is one of the world's largest producers of solar grade silicon and silicon solar cells for solar energy production.

To be fair, they do have the advantage of a lot of very big waterfalls. 90% of their electricity comes from hydropower

But also….. “Norway is one of the world's top oil exporters, generally ranking between 5th & 7th largest exporter of crude petroleum globally as of 2024” The literal definition of “we don’t poop where we exactly live…” - but like it’s still all Earth.

The oil and gas untapped in the North Sea is there for a reason. It’s the most difficult to extract thus the most expensive.

And it would have been even easier to just carry on using the oil and gas.

Interested in how the Mail thinks drilling in the North Sea will make all our lives easier when it's all in private hands, and is such a small % of global output that it has no real bearing on oil and gas prices worldwide. I wonder what the chain of reasoning is leading to such a conclusion?

It’s long before the Iran debacle. Part of Ed Miliband’s Green New Deal. The Labour government has also heavily invested in wind power.

Not at all relevant. We expect renewable energy to Norway. The export gas to us. How does that make sense.

They can't use gas! The country is solid rock. They have about 6 inches of soil, then it's rock. Impossible to lay gas pipes through. Do some homework.

Unfortuantely all paid for by Norway's huge fossil fuel exports

Hydro and thermal. They also didn't squander their north sea natural gas reserves for a quick buck. Electric bikes, pubic transport, heavy taxes on new ice cars. All the things you'd want to see.

Actually Norway has multiple cultural groups Norwegians, Sámi, Kven, and Skogfinn and this is not a recent change. It has been this way for centuries.

Exactly! This is what I came to say.

Up to its neck in toxic farmed salmon and itching to mine the seabed at any environmental cost. Norway us very far from being a 'green' nation.

That's great. The only problem is their renewables mix is basically hydro power, which is not scalable to many other areas of the world. re that are scalable, like solar and wind, are intermittent producers and heavily rely on gigantic production and storage arrays with huge eco footprint

My issue is acting like everywhere can choose to have the geography of Norway. France doesn't have enough groundwater. Most countries don't. It works for them because they're a strip of glacier covered mountains

Norway isn't that much better. They finance their wealth by exporting anormous amounts of oif.

Agree, but Norway specifically has a metric shitton of renewables and very few people, so they can easily power themselves with hydroelectric and export their oil for others to burn.

honestly we're doing great at the task we've been put to Norway put their effort toward moving to renewable energy, and they are 99% of the way there the US put their effort toward making about 30 people richer than God at the expense of absolutely everything else and we are NAILING IT EVERY DAY

Nope. It's $11 or $12 Canadian buckaroos.