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> The floating plants are expected to supply electricity to nearby offshore platforms and feed power into the onshore grid. Norwegian offshore platforms means

• magicalhippo 1y ago
  Indeed. There was a big push towards electrifying the offshore platforms and refineries using green hydro power. This was so our carbon budget didn't look so bad, as the actual end products are not counted. However in recent years there's been strong pushback as people realized just how much power these platforms and refineries take, and what plugging them into our grid would do to electricity prices. So this seems to be aimed at having your cake and eating it. We get "green" oil and gas, and no astronomical electricity prices.
  • lysace 1y ago
    In some relevant ways: Norway is Saudi Arabia but with a world class PR company. (I do wonder which one they use.)