90 per cent of Norwegian power generation comes from power plants in rivers and at waterfalls. Recently, Statkraft said that they want to renew hydropower plants throughout the country for tens of tens of billions. It created cheers more cities. Now the cheer has gone to bed. Sunndal municipality alone fears that they can lose between NOK 10 and 20 million annually after the upgrade of 70 -year -old Aura power plant. – If they do not do anything about it, we start with a clamp on the foot when we are going to create goodwill in the municipalities to facilitate the modernization of old power plants, says Mayor of Sunndal, Ståle Refstie (Ap). A gathering municipal council in Sunndal recently asked the government to intervene. Mayor Ståle Refstie talks to the municipal council in Sunndal about concerns. Photo: Marius André Jenssen Stenberg / news follows old legislation that has been paid for Norwegian municipalities to host power generation. As compensation, the municipalities have been able to buy and sell the stream on for a set sum. The prize has been different for power plants built before and after 1959, and an expansion can give the smaller money to the municipal treasury. Mayor Ståle Refsti thinks the regulations are outdated and turn out unfortunate. – It’s an old regulatory framework. When the plant is renewed and the cost price becomes more expensive, it can be we end up with a regime where it costs us more to get power than we can sell her for, and we cannot have it. Historical picture of the construction of Aura Kraft. Photo: Sverre A. Børretzen / NTB may lose the right to eternal time and it is not just the politicians in Sunndal who protest. Almost half of the Norwegian hydropower plants need renovation, according to NVE. The national association for hydropower communes throughout the country adopted this week a resolution asking the government to change the regulations: “More and more municipalities are experiencing these unfortunate effects of new development plans in existing hydropower plants, and examples of negative municipal council decisions are increasing rapidly. This is very unfortunate, “the resolution states. Caroline Lund is a legal secretary in the national association for hydropower communes, which has just conducted an annual meeting in the regions. Photo: Nadir Alam / news – Municipalities risk falling on quite large losses. In the worst case, they must then resign this power law and can lose it forever, says Caroline Lund, legal secretary in the association. She adds that the result can be resistance to upgrades. – What we hear from the member municipalities is that they will be very critical of a development that entails a greater degree of erosion, greater environmental tagging, and losing income they have today, says Lund. Aursjøen is the main magazine of Aura power plant. Photo: Øyvind Sandnes in the process of reviewing the Ministry of Energy did not have the opportunity to interview Thursday or Friday, but answers in writing by e-mail. State Secretary Astrid Bergmål thinks it is quite right that the hydropower municipalities have favorable schemes that give them parts of the surplus from the power, and will continue to be so. -We have initiated a review of how the ED Prize (the concessionary power price, red note) is determined annually by the Ministry. The goal is to develop a more efficient and transparent method, write ho. Bergmål also adds that the power producer and the municipality are free to agree on the price they want on the concessionary power. State Secretary Astrid Bergmål says they are looking at the case. Photo: Stine Grimsrud / OED Published 15.03.2025, at. 08.42
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