At least be honest, I know asking a lot from a journalist...
Norway uses virtually zero gas or oil for electricity generation. Hydro is 89.9% wind is 9.2%, gas is 0.2% so not even a rounding error.
Fun fact Norway heats with electric too, why they have cheap Hydro and the capacity to build much more all up and down their thousands of miles of deep fjord valleys each one of them has a river down the center. Norway is Europe’s battery all that water uphill and behind dams is instant on potential energy. There is no less than 4 HVDC cables that are bidirectional so you can pull Hydro power or send power from the EU and hold the water back for later ,Norway also is doing pump back Hydro where they again take EU power and pump water back uphill. It’s genius.
https://www.iea.org/countries/norway/electricity
Norway also has GREAT hydro-electric from their mountain lakes and reservoirs. So much so that many countries in Europe buy that ‘green’ power to them, in order to help them ‘meet their goals’.
...but that leads to a recent problem - the DRAINING of those lakes and reservoirs, and so Norway has told the rest of Europe to find green power somewhere else, such as the 12 nuclear plants that the German Government blew up.
The fad following insanity of Western politicians and “Social” leaders is leading to cultural suicide and it’s coming quickly.
The gas the EU was buying from Russia? Norway ramped up their gas production, to where they have replaced the missing Russian gas. They use hydropower electricity, to where their use of EVs is Justified!
90% of new car sales are EVs there.
Norway gets close to 90% of its electricity from hydro power and THAT is why it is able to avoid the green - wind and solar - scams. Electricity is also the main source for heating. And EVS (with so much abundant hydro power electricity) are now the top sellers in Norway. What does Norway do with most of the gas and oil it produces? They export most of it.
DOH!
I worked in Norway for several years in late seventies and early 80s. Until 1983 when the oilfield collapsed due the fact we found to much oil. Prior I worked world wide just looking for oil, it was great.
Norway is an odd nation very much different than the rest of Europe. Most of their electricity comes from hydro power of which they are blessed and also natural gas of which they are blessed in the extreme. Norway just uses a combination which insures efficiency for the lowest price to the customer.
Norway is very capitalistic, they encourage this but at the same time taxes their citizens greatly to provide all with almost a welfare state. Their tax structure is kind to business as it is the source of income for the state. Norway is an odd state that socialism almost got right but underlying this success is huge natural resources of oil and gas and the wisdom to use it correctly. Without this underlying prosperity it has it would fail as a almost socialist state.
Osa Rott was beautiful.