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Switch: The Complete Film - Exploring Norway's Successful Energy Transition
Join Scott Tinker on a journey through Norway's clean energy revolution at the Evanger hydro plant. Discover how this energy transition has set a global benchmark, with insights on tunneling through mountains for sustainable power generation.
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[Music]
(Scott Tinker) Norway.
Energy so clean,
you can drink it.
And that's why I'm here
to look at the most successful
energy transition in the world.
My name is Scott Tinker
and I study energy.
And I was headed
to the Evanger hydro plant.
So the easiest access
to the power plant
was to tunnel through
the mountain?
Yes.
Yes, not the easiest
but the best altogether.
The tunnel is how long?
Fifteen hundred meters long.
How far under the
mountain are we now?
We are at 500 meters.
(Scott Tinker)
When the tunnel stopped,
I realized we weren't going
through the mountain.
The power plant
is inside the mountain!
There's nobody here.
No, because normally
there's nobody here.
All our stations are run
from our central in Bergen.
Wow.
I'm very curious about this.
What's on the wall here?
It's a piece of art;
a waterfall.
And those are salmon on the right,
jumping up the waterfall.
So, there's art
down here in this plant.
Yes.
That's beautiful.
It looks like the end
of a cathedral.
Yes.
And this is an
interesting design.
What is that?
This is constructed to transform
the energy of the water
into rotating energy in the wheel.
It was an American gold-digger,
digging gold,
who discovered that he could
use the energy in the water
much more efficiently
if he had a cup form,
and you get to use over 90%
of the energy in the water.
What you see is the top
of the generator.
What are the rotations?
500 revolutions per minute.
500 RPM.
That's 200 tons rotating.
(Scott Tinker) These generators
are connected to lakes
in the mountains high above us,
by a 20-mile underground
pipeline network.
No huge dams, and the
environmental footprint is tiny.
With technology like this,
Norway now gets 99%
of its power from water.