Doesn’t most of Norway’s power come from hydro?
- Norway has a population of 5 million
- because of the incentive to use electricity, the annual electricity consumption was about 26-27 MWh per inhabitant during 2004-2009 when the European union (EU15) average in 2008 was 7.4 MWh. Norway’s consumption of electricity was over three times higher per person compared to the EU 15 average in 2008
For comparison, Italy makes 41% of its power from hydro, but have to serve a population of 60 million
If Norway was truly sorry, they should liquidate all of their oil profits and use it to invest in research to make a carbon neutral future. As it stands they ruined the environment and now will profit off the backs of the rest of the world through the legacy of their fossil fuel extraction.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/
[edit] For all those who scale with population: it doesn't really matter for production. Population matters for consumption, and emissions (if they were producing 5% of US CO2, it would really look bad for Norway; but they don't - per capita the emit half than what US does per capita[1]). I guess it could matter in "benefit per capita"... if that were a thing (outside Norway maybe). I.e. how much did you benefit from US oil production, vs. how much Exxon benefited? I mean, yeah US citizens benefited from cheap gas - but that's because of middle-east production, so in reality the production elsewhere in the world should count on the US as "pollution".
[1]https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/norway?country=~NOR#p...
Having said that, because of the law of large numbers, in any ranking scaled by size, the outliers typically are the smaller entities.
All of a sudden it doesn't seem that impressive if Norway is only producing 15% the amount of the US