The Green Energy Scam Takes on Norway...Wants Energy Nationalism
Norway’s Government Collapses Over EU Net-Zero Energy Policies Dispute
Norway’s euroskeptic Centre Party quit the government on Jan. 30 in a dispute over the adoption of European Union net-zero energy policies.
The center-left Labour Party wanted Norway, which is not part of the EU but adopts most of the bloc’s laws, to adopt EU directives on renewable energy consumption, energy performance in buildings, and increased overall energy efficiency, government ministers said.
The Centre Party opposed all three directives, saying they would erode Norwegian autonomy.
The announcement by Centre Party lawmaker and Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum deprives Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere of his only coalition partner and eight of the 20 members of his cabinet, including the defense, finance, and justice ministers.
“The conclusion for us is that the Centre Party does not want to be part of this development,” Vedum said at a press conference on Thursday. “We want to take back more national control.”
Labour, which has been part of a coalition government since 2021, could govern alone until the next election is held in September.
The Norwegian government has also proposed fixed-price contracts of 40 øre/kWh (about $0.038/kWh) starting on Oct. 1. This is nearly seven times cheaper than the EU average of €0.2889/kWh (about $0.31/kWh) and significantly below current market rates.
The government said that the new measures will strengthen Nordic cooperation to ensure stable and low electricity prices.
Norway’s interconnectors are high-voltage subsea cables that link its electricity grid to Denmark and neighboring countries, enabling the exchange of power between markets and allowing it to export its abundant hydropower and import electricity when needed.
The conservative Progress Party argued that renewable energy exports from Germany, and also the UK, are contributing to a “price infection” spreading to Norway when no wind and solar energy is being produced.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has been at the center of the energy debate since it shut down its last three nuclear power plants in 2023, a decision pushed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
While these plants can operate for decades, Germany opted to rely more heavily on alternative sources such as wind and solar.
Critics said that the growing discontent in Norway and Sweden reflects a broader trend of energy nationalism.
“Electricity interconnectors mean that high prices from one country can spread to others, and this risk is prompting the rise of energy nationalism,” Wilkinson said. “Norway, which has cheap electricity from hydropower, is understandably reluctant to subsidize Germany’s risky experiment with renewables and bonkers nuclear phase-out.”
Wilkinson said the energy policies of the UK and Germany are “akin to economic suicide.”
“It is no surprise that other countries want to avoid any contagion. Their Governments must get energy prices down if they want good relations with their neighbors,” he sai
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Comment by Willem Post on February 2, 2025 at 6:03am
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High Costs/kWh of Offshore Wind Foisted onto a Brainwashed Public
The three main subsidies are:
Federal and state tax credits and cash grants,
5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire project
Deduction of interest of borrowed moneyThe effect of the three items is to reduce the owning and operating cost of a project by 50%, which means electricity be sold at 50% less than it costs to produce.
Utilities pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from fixedoffshore wind systems
Utilities pay 18 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from floating offshore wind
Utilities pay 12 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from larger solar systems
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Excluded costs, at a future 30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, the current UK level:
- Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement, about 2 c/kWh
- Traditional power plants counteracting W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, about 2 c/kWh
- Traditional power plants providing electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings and at night, about 2 c/kWh
- W/S electricity that could have been produced, if not curtailed, about 1 c/kWh
- Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh
- Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh
- Disassembly at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh
Some of these values exponentially increase as more wind and solar systems are added to the grid
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The economic/financial insanity and environmental damage of it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do-do
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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