The Norwegian state-owned power company Statkraft has sent a license application to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) in order to modernise the Mauranger 2 hydropower plant (in Hardanger, southwest Norway) and increase its capacity from 250 MW to 880 MW, enough to add 70 -80 GWh/year of power generation. Construction of the new infrastructures could start in 2026 and the modernisation would make the Mauranger 2 plant Norway's fifth largest in terms of capacity.
Hydropower accounted for around 90% of Statkraft’s power mix in 2021. The company has a consolidated installed power generation capacity of 18.7 GW, and it aims to develop 9 GW of renewable capacity (hydro, wind and solar) by 2025, with an annual development rate of 2.5-3 GW/year. As a whole, hydropower represented 92% of Norway’s power generation and 86% of its installed capacity in 2020.
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