kingofmen

Indeed the article explicitly says they intend to do so.

> Maybe they just have too much electricity up there that is not needed by the population or existing industry?

Yes, this is basically the case. It's quite expensive to transfer power across several degrees of latitude, and as a result, the price of power in the south of Norway is sometimes orders of magnitude higher than in the north.

Because "mostly" does a lot of work in that sentence. Companies, like militaries, keep secret a lot of information that would be safe to release because they don't know which bits are highly unsafe.

Also true when considering the size of the companies.