Seriously. I can’t believe it is not 100% state owned. Privatising public services is the dumbest thing a state can allow. 🤦♂️
Primaris marins!
Our export capacity has very little to do with our membership in the common north European power market which has gone bonkers due to unavailability of natural gas. The only thing the cable does is giving us less of an excuse to not collaborate, which is very short sighted when we have so much hydro power with highly variable availability.
Cue the downvotes!
Give us phoenix lord models god fucking damn it.And have thm show up in more books.And fire C.S Goto.
Cries in Gry Knights
I’m so sick of the electricity threads. Get over it already, norwegians have it relatively good in comparison to other western nations (where the electricity prices are also high). Most families still have 1 (or 2) cars, many (even young) people own a flat/house, people have their hytte, etc. Hardly anyone is starving because of the electricity prices, hardly anyone has to freeze – hardly anyone has to make the decision ‘food or warmth?’
It is just entitled crybabies who can’t save as many 1000s a month now, or pay off their exorbitant flat in oslo, their shiny new phone/tv/console (norwegians are the no 2 top consumers in europe) etc etc
The threads on norge and nordmenn have the quality of VG threads on facebook these days
Why not two price regimes? One for domestic use and one for export?
In a “normal” year, the undersea cables would have lowered electricity prices in Norway during the “vårknipa” (spring shortages) that we’d traditionally have in the time from late winter until spring thaw properly starts.
The problem this year is that Germany wanted to phase out both nuclear and coal power and cover the shortfall with imported power, and Southern Norway had a dry summer. The Middle and Northern parts of Norway have more normal prices, but they’re also influenced by the wind and water situation in Northern Sweden, because they’re more connected to Northern Sweden than to Southern Norway or Western Norway.
I understand not wanting to build new light water nuclear powerplants, due to the proliferation issues and safety issues involved, but those are not exuses to prematurely shut down the existing nuclear plants. Nor are they good excuses to not build Thorium based molten salt reactors, which are both inherently safe and have no nuclear weapons proliferation issues. The French and British keep working on light water nuclear because they need to produce nuclear weapons as a by-product, and also due to entrenched technology.
Can anyone exlpain wy the germans r mentiont?
unpopular opinion: there are two problems here: the increase in price was way too sudden, and some people have too little money. Other than that, this is good actually.
Is there a good detailed article about this somewhere?
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Having private companies run the business?
Seriously. I can’t believe it is not 100% state owned. Privatising public services is the dumbest thing a state can allow. 🤦♂️
Primaris marins!
Our export capacity has very little to do with our membership in the common north European power market which has gone bonkers due to unavailability of natural gas. The only thing the cable does is giving us less of an excuse to not collaborate, which is very short sighted when we have so much hydro power with highly variable availability.
Cue the downvotes!
Give us phoenix lord models god fucking damn it.And have thm show up in more books.And fire C.S Goto.
Cries in Gry Knights
I’m so sick of the electricity threads. Get over it already, norwegians have it relatively good in comparison to other western nations (where the electricity prices are also high). Most families still have 1 (or 2) cars, many (even young) people own a flat/house, people have their hytte, etc. Hardly anyone is starving because of the electricity prices, hardly anyone has to freeze – hardly anyone has to make the decision ‘food or warmth?’
It is just entitled crybabies who can’t save as many 1000s a month now, or pay off their exorbitant flat in oslo, their shiny new phone/tv/console (norwegians are the no 2 top consumers in europe) etc etc
The threads on norge and nordmenn have the quality of VG threads on facebook these days
Why not two price regimes? One for domestic use and one for export?
In a “normal” year, the undersea cables would have lowered electricity prices in Norway during the “vårknipa” (spring shortages) that we’d traditionally have in the time from late winter until spring thaw properly starts.
The problem this year is that Germany wanted to phase out both nuclear and coal power and cover the shortfall with imported power, and Southern Norway had a dry summer. The Middle and Northern parts of Norway have more normal prices, but they’re also influenced by the wind and water situation in Northern Sweden, because they’re more connected to Northern Sweden than to Southern Norway or Western Norway.
I understand not wanting to build new light water nuclear powerplants, due to the proliferation issues and safety issues involved, but those are not exuses to prematurely shut down the existing nuclear plants. Nor are they good excuses to not build Thorium based molten salt reactors, which are both inherently safe and have no nuclear weapons proliferation issues. The French and British keep working on light water nuclear because they need to produce nuclear weapons as a by-product, and also due to entrenched technology.
Can anyone exlpain wy the germans r mentiont?
unpopular opinion: there are two problems here: the increase in price was way too sudden, and some people have too little money. Other than that, this is good actually.
Is there a good detailed article about this somewhere?
Is “high” like 20cents in Norway?