Norway’s plan to curb electricity exports as Europe grapples with a severe energy crisis is a dangerous and selfish act that risks empowering Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, according to the Nordic country’s neighbours.
The power grid operators of Denmark, Finland and Sweden have taken the unusual step of warning Norway that its proposal to stop exporting electricity amid concerns in Oslo over its hydro production undermined the European market.
“It would be the first country in Europe to do it in electricity. It would be a very dangerous step and nationalistic. It’s very selfish behaviour,” Jukka Ruusunen, chief executive of Finland’s network operator Fingrid, told the Financial Times.