On Tuesday, the Power Network Committee submitted its report to Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Aasland (Labor Party). The report presents the committee with several measures to solve the challenges associated with the future development of the power grid.
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Both the Power Grid Committee and Aasland emphasize that the power grid must be developed in the most socially rational way possible – without unnecessary costs for consumers or nature.
– Then it is important that we do not expand more networks than we have to, says Aasland to Nationen.
– Small time margins
On the coldest day of the year, the power grid has a capacity of up to 25,000 megawatts (MW), according to the sample. One of their conclusions is that the current power grid must be better utilized.
– There may be small time margins, for example the one block we want to use extremely much electricity in January. Then a company may be able to disconnect, and we will avoid network development, says Aasland.
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