The export cables to Denmark and the North Sea
Ouch Odd Handegård.
The government platform from Hurdal stated that no new export cables to the EU will be built in the current parliamentary term. In practice, however, the power industry is planning a significant expansion of export capacity. I have previously commented on the cable system that is planned in connection with possible offshore wind projects in the North Sea. Several of the solution alternatives will of course mean that significantly more renewable energy will be able to be exported from Norway.
In addition to this, Statnett has plans (which have not even been finally adopted) to replace older export cables, e.g. to Denmark. The cables are relatively small, but the intentions are to more than double the capacity from approx. 4 TWh to approx. 10-11 TWh (?). We recognize this tactic from the wind power expansion that was adopted before 2010 and which has been realized in recent years: Capacity, size and location of the wind turbines have changed compared to the original plans.
Now the Center Party’s Sigbjørn Gjelsvik has reacted. He perceives the proposal for “maintenance” of the cables to Denmark as so extensive that the expansion corresponds to a new cable that will export power that should also be used in Norway. The “modernization” is like replacing an old Volkswagen from the 1960s with a modern Mercedes. But Energy Minister Terje Aasland disagrees – to prevent the export of power leading to export deficits in Norway, must we build new wind power in this country, according to Aasland. The question therefore becomes what the government’s support party, SV, will think about this. The party is unfortunately a supporter of new Norwegian wind power development, although the party has in the last year tried to camouflage the position by rather facing unrealistic offshore wind.
The main reason why SV now talks more about offshore wind than onshore wind is that SV still insists that the shelf must be electrified, and that SV’s management (Kaski, Knag Fylkesnes and Lars Haltbrekken) has received so much shouting from the members that they have changed . argumentation.
But what SV obviously does not understand is that no matter what happens to the offshore window building, the electrification of the shelf is just as idiotic, regardless of whether you use offshore wind or electricity from land. The electrification means nothing for climate development (for those who believe so) – it is only a matter of moving a few tonnes of CO2 from the Norwegian climate accounts and over to the accounts in Germany. It will be as if cleaning Oslo for all plastic rubbish, other waste and boss, and transporting it to Bergen and spreading it out in the city center.
Exactly the same misunderstandings characterize the editorial posts in Klassekampen, e.g. attached leader (political editor Bjørgulv Braanen) who also imagines that they will be less CO2 emissions in Germany if Statoil contributes a few billion.
Class struggle leader: Shelf current
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