If You Want Some Good News in the Renewable Energy Arena, Look to Norway

Living here in the U.S., it’s easy to think that the rest of the world shares our state of delusion with respect to climate disruption, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and the many other environmental catastrophes that are unfolding all around us.  Fortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

Here’s a story that illustrates the bringing together of two great needs vis-a-vis renewable energy: an enormous amount of wind power (a variable resource) and energy storage.  Check out what Norway is doing to facilitate the integration of tons more clean energy into the European grid-mix.

The whole thing is so propitious that there’s even a symbol of good fortune over one of the Fjords (pictured above).