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Norway Looks To Reduce Its Dependence On Oil

Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer, Norway, will start to analyze ways to cut its dependence on oil and gas, because fossil fuels are bound to lose value over time with the energy transition, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Vidar Helgesen, told Reuters on Thursday.

The government will task a commission of experts to study ways to make Norway’s economy greener and spare it from financial risks connected to climate change policies. The commission will likely report on its findings in around one year’s time, Helgesen said.

“Given the energy and transport revolutions, fossil energy resources will be of less value over time,” the minister told Reuters.

“The energy transition to renewables is going faster than anyone thought. And almost any scenario is being out-competed by reality,” he noted.

Last month, the Conservative ruling party of Norway won re-election for the first time since 1985, in a vote where oil policies took center stage.

Last year, the Norwegian government approved the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2030, but its current status of implementing policies is rated as “insufficient” by Climate Action Tracker.

The oil and gas industry is central to the Norwegian economy, accounting for 12 percent of GDP in 2016, and for 13 percent of state revenues.

According to Helgesen, Norway is “fairly well” positioned to mitigate financial risks from the energy transition due to its giant sovereign wealth fund, which hit a value of US$1 trillion for the first time last month.

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Norway may be the biggest oil and gas producer in Western Europe, but it is also a leader in electric vehicles (EVs) adoption, market penetration, and sales, thanks to green incentives.

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“Six out of seven most popular car brands are now EVs,” Helgesen tweeted in July. According to an article the minister shared, 28 percent of car sales in Norway are EVs, and the share rises to 42 percent if hybrids are included.

Last month, 29 percent of the new car sales in the country were EVs, with Tesla deliveries soaring.  

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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  • Nick WIlson on October 09 2017 said:
    Aside from its hydro potential there are massive opportunities in using its deep fjords for compressed air storage - effectively a battery. I think Sojnefjord is over 1300 metres deep.
  • Rik on October 06 2017 said:
    More energy talk political correctness. Having lived in Norway their Economy revolves around O&G, the figures are misleading. EV result in less demand for forecourt fuel but the additional electrical generation has to come from somewhere and that will not be met by their present hydroelectric generation. So they do what they always have, keep selling gas to Europe and buying back electricity and claim they are carbon free.
    The general public in Western World are being lead on a merry dance by politicians pandering to the green ideal. I am all for clean energy, but the realistic picture must be kept in focus – most of Europe cannot even meet the projected domestic and industry energy demand in the near future, let alone with a few million EV’s thrown in the mix.

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