Installed capacity — Norway
What Norway could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Hydro reservoir | 26,680−32 | 65.0% |
| Run-of-river hydro | 7,349+119 | 17.9% |
| Onshore wind | 5,133 | 12.5% |
| Pumped-storage hydro | 1,076+11 | 2.6% |
| Natural gas | 531+53 | 1.3% |
| Other sources | 131 | 0.3% |
| Waste | 93 | 0.2% |
| Solar | 43+26 | 0.1% |
| Biomass | 15 | 0.0% |
| Offshore wind | 6 | 0.0% |
How much ran at once
The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.
Of 41,056 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 28,181 MW — 69% of the fleet, on 22/12/2025, 16:45:00.
- Hydro 25,997/ 35,105 MW 74%
- Wind 3,966/ 5,139 MW 77%
- Gas 204/ 531 MW 38%
- Other 123/ 223 MW 55%
- Solar 8/ 43 MW 18%
- Biomass 0/ 15 MW 2%
The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.
How it changed, year by year
Total installed capacity, from 2015 to 2026.
- 2026 41,056MW +179
- 2025 40,878MW +7,493
- 2024 33,385MW +198
- 2023 33,187MW +70
- 2022 33,117MW 0
- 2021 33,117MW −5,203
- 2020 38,319MW +1,982
- 2019 36,337MW +1,540
- 2018 34,797MW +2,188
- 2017 32,610MW −436
- 2016 33,046MW +653
- 2015 32,393MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.
Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.