| Regulation: | Act no. 50 of 29 June 1990: Act relating to the generation, conversion, transmission, trading, distribution and use of energy etc. |
| Short name: | The Energy Act |
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| Issuing entity: | Norway |
| Date: | 1990/06/29 |
| Reference: | https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/oed/vedlegg/lover-og-reglement/act_no_50_of_29_june_1990.pdf |
| Hard/soft law instrument: | Hard law |
| Relevant justice questions: | Chosen justice question particularly relevant for the regulatory/policy framework (in the light of JUSTNORTH research, aimed at supporting future justice-focused research on Arctic governance):
General: Is the regulatory/policy framework a source of social ills: conflicts, exclusion, discrimination or driving health and social problems?
General: What is the idealized vision of the future state that the framework is to achieve (e.g. as expressed in introduction to legal acts)?
Transnational perspective: How justice questions are considered in the context of transborder impacts and transnational actors (e.g. global companies, int. NGOs)?
Weighting values: Does the framework promote certain values and interests at the expense of others? Whose interests are being promoted? Is the framework trying to strike a balance, promote certain interests or obscure the tensions within society, including individual vs group/community/global community interests?
Energy justice: Who benefits and who pays the costs from the energy policy?
Energy justice: Where in spatial terms are benefits and costs of energy policy measures and effects borne?
Energy justice: What are the likely future consequences of energy developments facilitated by a given regulation/policy?
Energy justice: How are decisions made concerning energy projects? Who is included and who is excluded from decision making? |
| Level: | National and EU/EEA |
| Remarks: | with amendments |
| Brief description: | This Act applies to the production, conversion, transmission, trading, distribution and use of energy. The Ministry may issue regulations or in individual cases limit the implementation of certain provisions of this Act as regards to installations, objects or activities. The Act does not apply to the right to use waterfalls or watercourses. The Ministry sets the amount of performance or how many consumers a district heating plant will include. Installations exempt from this Act may be required to connect to other facilities. The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the generation, transmission, trading, distribution and use of energy takes place in a socially efficient manner, including taking account of public and private interests affected.
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