TOP 10 – COUNTRIES LEADING IN CLEAN ENERGY

ENERGY CONSUMPTION PER GDP( KWH /$): 1.10 KWH / US $ RENEWABLES SHARE: 61.4 % ALTERNATIVE AND NUCLEAR SHARE: 50.6 % CLEAN ENERGY INDEX: 79.4 / 100

Norway has built one of the most extraordinary electricity systems on earth, and it has done so almost entirely on water. A remarkable 89.1 % of all Norwegian electricity is generated by hydroelectric dams, a figure that no other nation in the world comes close to matching. Norway’ s fjords and mountains are essentially a huge natural battery, capable of storing and releasing energy with a reliability that solar and wind farms are still working to replicate. In 2026, more than 61 % of all energy

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consumed in Norway is renewable, and the country’ s grid produces just 31 gCO₂ for every kilowatt-hour generated. Its energy efficiency, at 1.1 kWh per US $ 1 of GDP, is sharper than most of its neighbours. The paradox at the heart of Norway’ s energy story, of course, is that it is also one of the world’ s great oil exporters. The hydropower revolution it has staged at home has been funded, in part, by the fossil fuels it sells abroad.

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