UNCOCKED BY THE AP GOVERS – altaposten.no
The notifications now come that the AP government intends to present parts of the EU 4-energy market package before Easter, so that it can be treated in the Storting before the election.
With Høyre's help, Ap is thus investing in Norway even more strongly to the EU's energy union. It is unwise for several reasons. To go to the core first: The fact that Norway has become increasingly integrated into the EU's power market – both through political frameworks and a strong increase in the export capacity of the continent, has proven to be a poor deal for industry and consumers.
Our pure hydropower – and the exchange of power with Nordic neighboring countries that we previously had – secured Norwegian business and Norwegian households low and stable power prices. This power system and this thinking have now been rocked. Norwegian companies and households are left with the bills. The last two foreign cables from 2021 increased export capacity by over 40 per cent. Prices in Norway have been high – at times very high – and they are unpredictable. As late as just before Christmas, we felt that the electricity price went up to $ 13 per kwt because it did not blew the continent.
Norwegian electricity customers are now given the continental weather phenomena and the price of liquid natural gas. The absence of stable ground supply of electricity in Germany – as a result of the country's decision to shut down the nuclear power plants – also pays Norwegian power customers an expensive price for. The same applies to the addiction Germany had built up when it came to Russian pipe gas. In this situation, Norway does not need closer integration into the EU power system and energy union. Still, that's what the road and the Right want to go.
Unfortunately, the Storting decided by the votes from the Right, Frp, Ap, Left and MDG to accept the EU's third energy market package in 2018. This included the EU agency ACER, which will be the very hub of the EU's energy union. The Center Party voted against Because we could not accept to give an EU body the influence of energy policy and the intermediate countries that ACER will receive. What has happened in the years after makes us even safer. In government, the Center Party had important impacts in energy policy. We stopped several cables abroad, including the so -called hybrid cables. But when the Ap proposed to promote the EU's 4th energy market package, the Center Party had no choice. The Center Party could not, under any circumstances, agree to help that Norway became more closely integrated into the EU's energy union. Therefore, the government and the Center Party went in opposition. The Center Party left the government because we could not accept that the EU's 4th -energy market package was treated piecemeal and divided. The AP government now states that it will promote three of the eight directives in the package before the election, and that the other five directives will be on hold. There is little reason to believe in Ap's promises in this context. The government emphasizes itself-time and time again-that through the EEA agreement we are obliged to accept all EU directives adopted under the agreement. There is a lot that is paradoxical in Aps's sudden hurry to get the directives through. Three directives in the fourth package are obviously crucial to the future of the EEA agreement, while the other five directives in the package not Is it. It is incomprehensible. It is probably mostly about Ap and LO being deeply split in the last five directives. It is therefore difficult to understand the logic in Ap's reasoning. But this may be because in the Center Party we do not share what is probably Ap's long -term plan: to use a wide range of tactical maneuvers get all eight directives through the Storting. Behind is a larger strategy to keep all crucial EEA issues farthest away from the election campaign. Such AP and Right in their time did when they pushed the EEA agreement itself through in the Storting-without a referendum.
