> 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 exp

> 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.