Norway
Hydropower stands for almost 98% of the energy production in Norway. The country lacks of larger lakes that can be used as water storage magazines. However, height differences are very high at some places, the nature of the country having very many mountains, and has also large amounts of rain and snow falling down every year. Norway has some of the largest hydroelectric power stations in Europe, with the largest, Kvilldal Hydroelectric Power Station, at 1240 MW. This is larger than the largest of Sweden, Harsprånget, at 977 MW. Norway exports large amounts of its electricity production.
The oil and natural gas produced in the country is mostly exported, and the small oil amounts used are mostly for vehicles.
Read more about this topic: Nordic Energy Market
Famous quotes containing the word norway:
“A long time you have been making the trip
From Havre to Hartford, Master Soleil,
Bringing the lights of Norway and all that.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“Such was the very armor he had on
When he the ambitious Norway combated.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)