Industry areas
Areas for power-intensive industries
14 areas from 3 to 250 hectares planned for power-intensive industry projects.
Industry areas
14 areas from 3 to 250 hectares planned for power-intensive industry projects.
South-West Norway has developed sites, infrastructure, and value chains to support the ongoing industrial transition and at the same time create new jobs and continue Norway's strong sustainable track record. We would like to explore the opportunity to create this future together with your company.
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South-West Norway is among the most complete industrial regions in Scandinavia. Communication links, logistics, knowledge, green power generation, industrial thinking, R&D all support international energy industry requirements. Experience and insight from international business through generations combined with experience from design and development of energy production in one of the harshest areas in the world have resulted in unique capabilities to construct and operate large installations on and offshore.
The "new" industry requires access to large amounts of renewable energy - energy from hydropower, wind, and solar. Norway's industrial comparative advantage is access to a surplus of local electricity production. The industrial sites in the South-West region are planned for what we call «Perpetuum Mobile» in order to minimize energy waste by planning for circular economy systems. We would like to engage with companies where sustainability, digitalization, and electrification are important. We believe that these companies will attract other like-minded companies and thus create green industrial parks for the future offering good value to both the local communities and the companies.
Battery-cell production and/or component producers to the battery value chain. As a county with a long industrial heritage, the battery value chain is of interest to us as it represents the future industry workplaces. The region has several sites that could host such operations.
Hydrogen will be an important resource to store energy for use as required. Industry processes and maritime transport represent 2 large markets that are under development. The first marine engine to run on ammonia (from green hydrogen production) is currently being tested in the region and a successful outcome represents a huge market opportunity in the coming years. Integration with current gas export to the EU also offers market opportunities. Norway has in fact a long industry of producing hydrogen through electrolysis and welcomes a new area for this energy.
Digitalization continues to grow and drives the need for more and more data processing and storage. The region has built out both terrestrial and international optical fiber capacity to such an extent that we now represent a good alternative to perform data center operations for international markets out of Norway. The Norwegian government's data center strategies support a growing data center industry in the country.
Onshore fish farming is a growing business along the coast of Norway offering the option of sustainable fish farming combined with large-scale production. Logistics, access to water at the right temperature, energy and are important factors. Some of our sites will offer infrastructure suited for this industry in addition to circular opportunities arising from surplus heath from other industries can be found.
Mineral resources is an important industry in Rogaland. Requirements for sustainable operations sets new standards for how to operate such businesses. Opportunities to add value to the production of the raw materials will be identified and offers opportunities e.g. for large power system battery production based on local resources.
To use the energy in an optimal way with minimal waste is our goal. New circular integrations of industry and food production are under planning and will drive the next phase of development. We are on the outlook for new opportunities that can connect to the sites and different energy forms available.