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Norway is second in the world for electricity used per person.

28,598 kWh per person per year, second of 201.

Per person
28,598kWh
2nd of 201 in the world
Clean share
99%
in 2025
Total output
161TWh
a year
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Norway's electricity is cleaner than the world average. 28 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 94% below.

What this grid depends on

Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.

Carbon intensity
28g CO₂e per kWh

Among the cleanest electricity anywhere.

What this means

How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.

Electricity exported
14% of what it makes

Norway generates a surplus and sells it on.

What this means

The share of what this country generates that is sold abroad rather than used at home. A country can only export if it produces more than it needs, which usually means plentiful hydro, nuclear or wind.

Energy independence
100out of 100 · Energy Fortress

Almost everything this grid runs on comes from inside the country.

What this means

How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.

Also true of Norway

Norway gets next to none of its electricity from gas, in a region built on it.

54% of grids in Europe draw more than a tenth of their power from gas.

Norway gets next to none of its electricity from solar, in a region built on it.

51% of grids in Europe draw more than a tenth of their power from solar.

Norway is first in the OECD for hydro.

Hydro supplies 90% of its electricity.

Norway’s neighbours

Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Norway. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.