current drivers of norway s re policy ie climate change mitigation and liberalisation of the national energy market which ends longterm supply contracts to energyintensive firms do not engage local communities and may actually erode regional competitive advantages linked to the availability of cheap hydro energy for manufacturing activities higher prices for energy will generate larger rents for hydropower owners and higher taxes and fees for municipalities and counties but it is difficult to understand the net impact for rural communities if re deployment was better linked to local dynamics and if there was compensation available for possible negative impacts this could increase public support for re in this report troms county is used to identify the county and troms to identify its major city and administrative capital