In 2022, Norway accounted for 29% of energy production and 2% of energy consumption in OECD Europe. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Norway increased its natural gas production and exports to Europe in 2022 to help replace Europe’s natural gas imports from Russia. Norway’s last coal-fired power plant, located on a Norwegian island group called Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, is switching from coal to diesel now that Norway’s only coal mine in the islands was closed. However, Russia’s state-owned coal mining plant on Svalbard continues to operate