Et energiregnskap for Fastlands-Norge 1835#8211;2012

摘要

Abstract A characteristic feature of the pre-industrial societies wasthat they relied on limited energy resources. It was only by usingfossil fuels and new technologies that these societies could movethe boundaries that the organic economy had set for production andconsumption. Norwegian energy history is, from the 1900th Century on, aboutthe movement of those boundaries and is composed of two stories.One deals with the mainland economy, the other deals with the foreigneconomy (the merchant marine, etc.). These two stories are closelyconnected but are nonetheless dissimilar. In this article, we present a sketch of the first story aboutenergy consumption in the mainland economy, in the form of an energyaccounting for the Norwegian mainland 1835–2012. The accounts showthe accumulated consumption of energy from nine selected energycarriers in Norway. Our work is the first overall accounting 1835–2012,and gives new insights into the field of energy consumption research.Specifically, we provide a new accounting of Norwegian energy consumptionin the years 1835–1900 and 1950–1976. In the result section we first present figures for energy consumption1835–2012. Secondly, we briefly outline an energy history for theforeign sector. We round out the result section with a brief reflectionon whether the Norwegian energy history is so deviant from other countriesthat we can talk about a separate Norwegian development.