This video stunt by Jonas Gahr Støre and Terje Aasland is the ultimate example of how the government turns supranational EU orders into distinctly Norwegian party propaganda.

They portray it as an assertive, independent decision by the Labour Party to “clean things up” and “cut bureaucracy”, while the truth is that they are slavishly implementing legal acts that have already been dictated from Brussels.

They deliberately avoid mentioning that this enforced shortcut and accelerated development are the direct legal implementation of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) and the energy market packages by which Norway is bound through the EEA.

The “acceleration” is in reality the EU’s overriding law (RED III):

When the government, through Støre and Aasland, boasts that it has decided that everything must proceed more quickly, it is merely following the deadlines in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive. The RED III Directive stipulates that the development of renewable energy and the associated electricity grid must be defined as an “overriding public interest”.
The Directive requires Member States and EEA countries to establish dedicated Renewable Acceleration Areas in which the permitting process for wind power installations and monstrous pylons must be pushed through in less than a year.

Under RED III, the EU has set deadlines for processing applications in acceleration areas. If a Norwegian municipality attempts to exercise its traditional right of veto by putting the matter in a drawer, refusing to consider the zoning plan, or delaying it because of local protests, the EU mechanism kicks in.
Once the deadline has expired (for example, after one year), the absence of a response is legally deemed to constitute automatic approval. The matter is treated as though the municipality had said yes, and the developers can put the excavators into the ground and erect the monstrous pylons – entirely without the municipal council having adopted a positive decision.

It is this Directive that has led the European Commission to take Sweden to court, precisely because Sweden failed to implement the Directive by the stated deadline.
EU climate policy is the very engine and the legal cause of what is now unfolding.

When the Storting incorporated the EU’s climate diktat into Protocol 31 in 2019, Norway committed itself to the supranational climate targets towards 2030 – and beyond….
Thus climate and energy merged in Package 4, with digitalisation entering in full force with Package 5.

The EU’s overarching plan for achieving these targets is The Twin Transition (“the green and digital twin transition”).
This term is the very heading of the EU’s and Agenda 2030’s overarching strategy, in which all the loose threads – electricity/energy, freshwater, climate, health data and smart cities – merge into one and the same supranational digital control system.

The Twin Transition means, in plain language, that the “green” transition (climate and renewable energy) and the digital transition (artificial intelligence, data and surveillance) are no longer to be treated as two separate things.

The EU has decided that they are inseparable twins.
You cannot have one without the other.

The new grid package (EU Grid Action Plan) is the physical manifestation of this twin policy. Before the EEA, the electricity grid consisted merely of analogue copper wires carrying electricity from A to B. Under the Twin Transition, the EU requires the grid to be completely digitalised in order to survive.

Because the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) forces through an enormous amount of unstable wind power, and because the new battery and AI data centres (such as Nvidia and Bitdeer in Tydal and Google in Skien) consume electricity without interruption, the EU requires the grid to become “smart”. The new grid package is the tool that merges energy and digitalisation.
Your consumption is to be measured, monitored and controlled in real time.

The Labour Party claims that Norway lacks grid capacity and electricity, but it does not explain why demand has soared:

As we see with Nvidia’s and Bitdeer’s NOK 45 billion deal in Tydal, or Google in Skien, foreign tech giants have a treaty-based right to establish their enormous, power-hungry data and battery centres on Norwegian soil. Norway is not permitted to say no or to give priority to its own inhabitants over international battery facilities and AI servers.

Through the EU’s network codes and the Electricity Market Regulation (Package 4), Statnett is required to expand the grid in order to eliminate national bottlenecks, so that Norwegian electricity can flow unhindered into the European market (Articles 11 and 12) or be consumed by battery and data/AI facilities. Congestion revenues, from which the people previously benefited through lower grid tariffs, are now required by the EU to be ring-fenced and locked into supranational infrastructure and the removal of cross-border bottlenecks, which means that the national grid-tariff rebate for the Norwegian people is being forced to disappear.

The political theatre of our politicians:

By removing “unnecessary bureaucracy”, they are in reality removing the democratic emergency brakes that local communities, agriculture, environmental protection and reindeer husbandry have had to defend Norwegian nature against destruction. Aasland and Støre stand in the video pretending to be “the people’s rescuers” who are fixing the electricity grid, while in reality they merely function as loyal deputy directors for Brussels, paving the way for supranational corporations and tech monopolies.

It is the duty of loyalty in Article 3 that governs their video:
They must deliver the grid and the electricity on time in order to fulfil the objective of the EU’s Energy Union – and, in order to avoid a revolt by the people, they obscure the entire EEA connection from the voters.
This is the naked truth about the Labour Party’s video.

The greatest and most naïve illusion of all in the entire Norwegian public debate:
When people actually believe that more electricity means lower prices, they may have no idea that the Norwegian electricity market has long since been fully integrated into the EU’s market coupling through Energy Package 3 and ACER/RME in 2018. Under the EU’s Electricity Market Regulation and the associated 70 per cent rule, Statnett is legally required to make at least 70% of the transmission capacity in the international interconnectors available to the common European market at all times.

If Norway develops more renewable power – whether through upgrades to hydropower plants, offshore or onshore wind, solar or nuclear power – Articles 11 and 12 of the EEA Agreement do not allow us to keep this electricity isolated in order to lower prices for Norwegian consumers or businesses. The electricity is automatically directed to wherever the ability to pay is greatest on the Continent.

Nuclear power specifically will go to serve the data and battery centres (Package 5) that are springing up because of the EEA Agreement’s freedom of establishment.
The more we develop, the more clean electricity we secure for the European market, while the price contagion (the Euphemia algorithm) guarantees that we retain permanently high European electricity prices here at home.

It therefore does no good to build more power generation as long as the control room has been handed over to Brussels.
Read that sentence again!

Støre and Aasland chant that we need more electricity for “new green industry”, but they do not say who is actually first in the queue under Article 31 on freedom of establishment. The enormous amounts of power being pushed through at express speed under the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) are in reality earmarked for supranational tech giants and speculative projects.

Bitdeer’s and Nvidia’s enormous AI data centre in Tydal alone is set to consume more than 120 megawatts (MW) continuously.
These giants are not content merely to hoover up electricity from the regions; they also appropriate and ravage our freshwater resources.
The powerful AI chips require extreme freshwater cooling, with millions of litres of freshwater taken directly from local watercourses and evaporated out of the natural cycle of agriculture and the local community.

The EU’s new, gigantic action plan for the electricity grid, officially called the EU Grid Action Plan, is Brussels’ latest tool for forcing Member States and EEA countries into an extreme, supranational reconstruction and digitalisation of the electricity grid itself.

What is the objective of the new grid package?

The EU has realised that the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) requires such enormous quantities of new wind power and a bottomless number of battery and AI data centres that the existing electricity grid will collapse. The grid package is the order to build the physical monstrous pylons, power lines and transformer substations at tremendous speed.

But the purpose of building this physical grid is exclusively to fulfil The Twin Transition:

To force the Norwegian people to finance the infrastructure required for supranational tech giants freely to consume our electricity and freshwater, while we ourselves are subjected to digital surveillance and rationing through AMS and water meters when the grid comes under pressure.

On 7 August 2026, Aasland appeared on television and promised that they would enshrine in law that the municipalities’ right of veto would not be overridden….

The facts according to the law:
Norwegian politicians cannot legislate or guarantee that municipalities will not be overridden, because such a national veto protection fundamentally conflicts with the mandatory requirements of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), to which Norway is subject.

The two-year deadline that is mentioned is completely inaccurate for the areas where the real battle is taking place. The government, the bureaucrats and Terje Aasland use the general two-year deadline as a diversionary tactic to reassure people, while concealing the real shock figures.

Democratic processes that previously took 6–7 years in Norway are to be forced down to months and weeks in order to feed the digital and “green” twin transition (The Twin Transition).

Thanks to the overriding duty of loyalty, together with Section 2 of the EEA Act, these EU-imposed deadlines will completely override municipal self-government, regardless of whatever reassuring promises are served up on video and television.

What will it take for ordinary people to see through the game…?