How will Norway achieve its climate goals, get away from fossil fuels and create more jobs?
The government will try to respond to this when they present the energy report on Friday.
– Today we present the most important energy and industrial plan for many decades. This is the government’s plan for the next chapter in the history of the energy nation Norway, says Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru (H).
Norway has a goal of cutting emissions by 50-55 percent by 2030. In addition, we will be virtually emission-free by 2050.
We must therefore find new, renewable solutions to cover our growing energy needs, when, among other things, cars, ferries and heavy transport will run on electricity.
Restructuring in oil and power policy, plans for hydrogen and other new initiatives are expected to be presented in the report. This is the first time that energy and petroleum policy are included in the same report.
NRK wrote earlier this week that the government will, among other things, invest billions in offshore wind, which will supply Norway with energy without building too much in nature on land.
Norway will need significant amounts of electricity in the years to come, when we are now on the way to becoming nearly all-electric by 2050.
The energy report does not have time to be considered in the Storting before the summer holidays and the election. It is therefore the government’s proposal for Norway’s path towards a more electric society.
POWER FROM THE SEA: Part of the government’s energy plan is to invest billions in offshore wind.
Photo: Øyvinf Gravås / Equinor
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Promises nodes for hydrogen
Prime Minister Erna Solberg announces that five hubs and one or two hydrogen production facilities will be established in Norway by 2025.
The promise is part of the government’s new roadmap for hydrogen.
The government will also establish five to ten pilot projects for the development of cheaper hydrogen solutions.
By 2030, a network of hydrogen hubs and the realization of full-scale hydrogen projects in industry will be facilitated.
Controversial with electrification from land
By 2030, the oil and gas industry will halve its emissions, towards the 2005 level.
Originally, the industry wanted the goal to be a 40 per cent cut, but the Storting raised the ambition to 50 per cent in connection with the so-called oil tax package from last year.
To DN Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru (H) has said that there is no other way to achieve the goal than to electrify the Norwegian continental shelf from land.
Several parties have pointed to offshore wind as a possibility, but the government does not believe that this will be an opportunity of particular importance by 2030.
The topic is politically controversial. The Labor Party, the Socialist People’s Party and the Socialist People’s Party believe that it is possible to develop offshore wind faster. MDG and Frp are against electrification – the counter-arguments are waste of money, “greenwashing” and questionable climate effect.
It is also expected that increased electricity prices and increased grid rent will be topics in the report.
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