– This is broken. We have many who come because of the beaches. Everyone in Norway who is on holiday wants to go to the beaches, but they are simply gone.
That is the victory of Åshild Reime, who runs Nisser cottage village and camping on the fjord side (west side of Nisser) in Nissedal municipality.
“Beaches and boulders”
Goblins are one of the largest lakes in Telemark. And the municipality markets it as a dominant landscape mark with inviting beaches and boulders surrounded by clear-cut mountains.
And then it is probably not so inferior that tourists are disappointed when the white beaches are gone.
– They are on summer vacation, so they want to use Nisser and beaches and rocks. Many have come precisely because of the beaches. They probably experience that they did not get what they thought they would get.
The water level in Nisser has submerged the beaches.
ÅSHILD REIME
Good and full magazine
– The reason why the reservoirs inland and in the mountains are good and full is because we have had a snowy winter.
That’s what Sverre Eikeland, division director for hydropower in Agder Energi, says.
– For the blink of an eye, the consumption of water is not so high, so then we store the energy so that we can produce electricity for the winter. So right now the water level is high in many magazines.
According to NVE, the degree of filling in water reservoirs in southern Norway is almost 90 per cent, and last week the spot price for electricity was down to 1.5 øre in southern Norway.
Agder Energi thinks they are losing money on producing electricity no.
– Yes, we go in the red if we produce electricity right now, but we still have to meet society’s needs, says Eikeland.
Stores current
He says Agder Energi follows the requirements for how little water there can be in Nisser in the summer. Now the lake is a few centimeters below the highest water level it can be.
– In a normal situation, the beaches will be clearly visible. But these magazines are made to be able to store electricity, so that we have enough energy when winter comes. Draining now could have unfortunate consequences for the winter – even if it is of course possible.
Åshild Reime in Nisser cottage village and camping should wish that Agder Energi and Nissedal municipality could agree on a water level in Nisser in the summer.
– It is very destructive for everyone who does things along Nisser when it is like this year. This is not often the case, because we usually have much lower water. But if you ask me, the water level should be one meter lower now in the high season.
The industry along Nisser should wish the water level was lower – as in this picture from another year – so that more people could swim and enjoy themselves in the lake.
Photo: Åshild Reime
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