Norway (NO2): the live status of southwest Norway's electricity grid

Generation mix right now

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Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.

Replay today

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Generation mix over the last 24 hours

Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

History

Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

Cross-border flows

Physical flows across each border today, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform. Borders are fetched one at a time, so each one updates every few hours.

Long-term history

Electricity generated each year, by source, from each country's official yearly statistics.

Records

Browse every day in the archive

About the Norway grid

Statnett operates Norway's transmission grid. Unlike almost every other major grid, Norway generates roughly 90% of its electricity from hydropower, drawn from thousands of reservoirs built up over the 20th century - some large enough to store several months' worth of the country's total electricity needs. That storage capacity means Norwegian hydro can ramp output up and down far faster and more cheaply than almost any other generation source, making Norway a natural balancer for the more variable wind and solar output of its neighbours.

Norway is split into five price zones (NO1 to NO5); this page covers NO2, in the southwest, because that is where North Sea Link comes ashore. Opened in 2021 and running roughly 720km under the North Sea, NSL is Norway's only direct electrical link to Great Britain and, at the time it opened, the longest subsea power interconnector in the world - power typically flows from Norway to GB when British prices are high and reservoirs are full, and the other way when the wind is blowing hard across Britain and Norwegian reservoir levels need conserving.

Records & context

Sources: Statnett (consumption record), Statistics Norway (2025 production), Statnett (North Sea Link). Last checked: 2 October 2026.

Data sources for Norway (NO2)

The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover Norway (NO2), so this page draws on a different source instead:

• ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected TSO (RTE included) to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Norway (NO2)'s own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.

Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity, and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow per interconnector (North Sea Link), so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.