Low pressure causes Norway to lose billions of power - NRK Vestland

Between 7pm and 8pm today (Friday) will be the current price in “the most notorious price range “(NO2) mandarin 7 NOK per kilowatt hour.

It’s a new record. The 7 have never been seen before.

NO2 includes Agder, Rogaland, parts of Vestland and parts of Vestfold and Telemark.

New from from NVE shows that the degree of filling in the same area was 50.2 percent at the end of week 33.

This is 29 percentage points below what it is normally at this time of year (79.2 percent).

to go written question at the Ministry of Oil and Energy, the Progress Party wants to know how far this difference goes beyond energy production.

The explanation is that a lower pressure in the tanks and a reduced drop height of the turbines result in less efficient energy production.

I the answer the ministry refers to the calculations of NVE, according to which 1.1 terawatt hours (TWh) of energy in NO2 is lost when the degree of filling is 30 percentage points below normal.

This corresponds to the annual consumption of approximately 70,000 single-family homes e represents a value of around NOK 5 billion at today’s energy prices.

For the whole of Norway, the loss is about three times higher.

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– Clean energy comes into play

FRP energy policy spokesperson Marius Arion Nilsen describes the loss as “shocking”.

– This is clean energy coming into play as a result of an out-of-control electricity market, and yet another argument for limiting energy exports, he tells NRK.

The corresponding signal comes from SV and Raudt.

Sophie Marhaug (R): – This shows the problem of making short-term profit the only guiding principle in energy policy. The result is a record high in journals, with all the negative consequences it has.
Lars Haltbrekken (SV): – This is an argument for increasing the fill rate. We expect the government to come up with proposals for the Storting that will ensure that we do not lose such large amounts of power.

Last year it was introduced new tax rules (“tax on cash flows”) to stimulate greater development of hydroelectric power. An overview in The class struggle shows that the response was delayed.

All in all, he just walked in fire new applications following the change.

In total, the project will generate new power generation of 0.4 terawatt hours.

– The slowdown in exports weakens security of supply

While northern Norway has the highest fill level in 20 years, southern energy producers have come under scrutiny observation in the month of July.

Høgre’s spokesperson for energy policy, Nikolai Astrup, says the NVE calculation corresponds to the world’s oldest natural laws and shouldn’t surprise anyone.

– It is completely in line with the laws of physics that lower pressure and reduced drop height results in less efficient energy production, he says.

He warns that “general export restrictions can weaken security of supply, because they can make it more difficult to import when we need them and because producers can adapt their production to the restrictions”.

The Regulatory Authority for Energy (RME), which falls under the NVE, has delivered Monday their professional assessments of how much leeway Norway has to reduce the transfer of power abroad.

They concluded that the EEA Agreement opens restrictions only when special considerations implies that.

High electricity prices weren’t reason enough, they considered.

On the same day, system operators in Sweden, Denmark and Finland said yes “deep concern” beyond the signal in the Norwegian debate on intervention in the electricity market. In a joint Press release they underlined “the importance of open borders”.

The water level in the Blåsjø basin is 30 meters below the highest regulated water level. — In the southern watersheds, the amount of water in the watersheds is less than in the last 20 years. This in turn leads to record electricity prices. Here from Blåsjø to Agder.

Storvannet overflows in Håkvikdalen — In the north, the reservoirs are overflowing. Nordkraft warns you to travel near rivers that enter and leave reservoirs and prices are historically low. In week 30 with a weekly price of 2 øre / kWh.

The Balvatn regulation basin (597 m above sea level) overflows on the evening of 29 June. — Full water tanks at Balvatn in Nordland.

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– Export restrictions will irritate our neighboring countries

Europower’s political editor, Haakon Barstad, writes in one comment that export restrictions will weaken security of supply and “annoy our neighbors”.

– In this perspective, the government signal on export regulation seems very ill conceived. It seems that the most important intention was to send a message to the frustrated mayors of AP and SP that the government would like to do something, to write he.

He concludes with the government having to find solutions to slow it down production (as opposed to exports).

– The decisive thing now is that the government does not place limits on the exchange of power in Scandinavia or with other countries in Europe, says Ola Elvestuen (V).

He adds:

– Interchange cables improve security of supply in Norway and at the same time help to allow Europe to replace the use of Russian gas more quickly.