Norway is not draining lakes they are pumping water back up hill to store power they buy from the EU via HVDC cables then sell it back for profit or use it to make aluminum.
Norway is the Kings of Hydro power. They habe enormous resources. Every fjord has a river running down the center to sea level and thousands of feet of elevation change over every short distances this is the best set up for Hydro power in all of Europe and most of the world too. Only the Tibetan plateau has more hydro potential.
Norway is Europe’s battery they can hold water back or pump it up hill with 85+% round trip efficiency. Norway sells its oil and gas to fund its social state, most new car in Norway are EVs they have plenty of hydro power to.charge them and most citizens live in Oslo anyways so they are hooked up to the HVAC grid not rural.
“Norway is not draining lakes they are pumping water back up hill to store power they buy from the EU via HVDC cables then sell it back for profit or use it to make aluminum.”
I see - Norway drains their lakes to send power to Europe and then buys the power back from Europe for pumped storage. Thanks, that makes sense.
(the idiocy of Europeans has no bounds)