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Area of responsibility

26.02.2009 | 22:47

Established in 1921, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate is a directorate under the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and is responsible for the management of Norway’s water and energy resources.

Facts

Our mandate is to ensure an integrated and environmentally sound management of the country’s water resources, to promote efficient energy markets and cost-effective energy systems and to work to achieve a more efficient use of energy.                           

We are Norway’s national centre of expertise for hydrology, and we have a central role in the national flood contingency planning. NVE also has the overall responsibility for maintaining national power supplies.

NVE was in 2009 assigned greater responsibility in relation to the prevention of damage caused by landslides.This involves providing help to local authorities in the form of expertise and resources in risk mapping, spatial planning, warning
and contingency planning. The proposal was based on the need for a more comprehensive, effective and concentrated effort to achieve the goals of safer local communities

We carry out R&D and are involved in international development co-operation.

NVE is based in Oslo and has regional offices in Tønsberg, Hamar, Førde, Trondheim and Narvik. NVE has 400 employees.