Mette Kristine Kanestrøm, Head of Solar, Storage and Smart Grids at Multiconsult, tells pv magazine that while solar deployment has halted through the first months of the year, increasing battery deployment and emerging utility-scale projects offer new opportunties.
Norway’s solar deployment slowed in early 2026. According to figures published by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), cumulative solar capacity reached 903 MW by the end of May, a 27 MW increase on the 876 MW reported at the end of 2025.
Speaking to pv magazine during the Smarter E event in Munich, Germany, Mette Kristine Kanestrøm, Head of Solar, Storage and Smart Grids at Norweigian consultancy Multiconsult, attributed the slowdown to lower electricity prices, high interest rates and government intervention designed to shield households from volatile power costs.
“Solar is on a rollercoaster journey in Norway,” she said. “We had a lot of activity in Norway in previous years, doubling capacity from one year to another. Then power prices started to decrease and interest rates started to increase and by 2023, 2024, we started to see that installations were slowing down.”
Household solar stalls after price reforms
