Norway’s solar deployment speed delayed in the first half of 2025 compared to the previous two years, because the government introduced new regulations aimed at medium-sized commercial systems.
Norway According to figures from the Norwegian Water stocks and Energy Directorate (NVE), 49 MW Zonne -Zonne energy installed during the first six months of 2025.
The result is due to the deployment rate during the first six months of the two years earlier, which reached 79 MW in the first six months of 2024 and a record 145 MW in the first half of 2023.
Hassan Gholami, a consultant for solar energy and storage at Multiconsult, told PV -Magazine That This year’s installations so far “reflect a market that adapts to more normalized electricity prices, reduced subsidies and current legal reforms.”
He added that Norway will probably use more solar energy based on historical patterns in the second half of the year.
“In both 2023 and 2024, approximately 48% to 50% of the annual installations took place after July, powered by seasonal building peaks and budget finishes,” Gholami explained, predicting that the total capacity for 2025 could reach between 100 MW and 125 MW if a similar trend this year is reached.
The commercial and industrial (C&I) market has emerged as the leading solar segment of Norway, Gholami continued, now good for 429 MW – more than half – of the cumulative capacity of the country. The residential market, on the other hand, has been considerably delayed since a period of rapid growth at the start of the decade, of which Gholami said it reflects subsidy restrictions and stabilized electricity prices.
In the meantime, the market for Nuts scale remains in Norway “small but is increasingly false,” said Gholami, with the licenses of projects, including the 30 MW Seval Skog and 13.7 MW Orje Solar Plants. He said this suggests that “this segment is ready for faster growth from 2026.”
Gholami told PV -Magazine The desire for energy costs control, in particular among owners of commercial real estate, farmers and municipalities with considerable loads during the day, remains an important engine of the solar market of Norway. He also noted that an increase in the concession threshold, which came into effect earlier this month, has eliminated the need for a full NVE license for projects up to 10 MW, which simplifies the project development process for medium-sized solar parks.
“It already has an influence on investment behavior, in which more developers prepare Sub-10 MW projects for roofs and marginal countries,” Gholami explains.
Norway also has one Regulation for sharing energyAs a result of entry into force at the beginning of 2026. This allows the excess renewable capacity of plants to be shared in industrial areas.
“This marks an important step forward in unlocking the value of shared solar systems about Mutil building campuses such as logistics hubs, shopping centers and schools that were previously limited by regulatory barriers,” Gholami said.
Gholami suggested that Norway could benefit from further Expansion of its framework for sharing energy enforcement, which means that up to 1 MW energy from solar installations can currently be shared within a single characteristic. He suggested that this had to be widened with multi-building schemes within a shared grid connection, with the threshold, where necessary, increased.
Other legal changes that the Zonne market of Norway would support include obligations Sun on all new commercial and public buildings above a defined size, Gholami said, and increased financial incentives for household solar installations through stronger subsidies, the introduction of a stable support mechanism or a feed-in-in-tariff.
According to NVE figures, the cumulative solar capacity of Norway is at 763 MW after the first half of 2025. By 2030, the Norwegian government set an objective of 8 TWH of the annual solar production.
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