Mørenett AS

Mørenett AS was a Norwegian regional power grid company responsible for owning, expanding and operating electricity distribution networks with high delivery reliability and quality. Established in early 2014 through the merger of the grid divisions of Tussa Nett AS and Tafjord Kraftnett AS, it became one of Norway’s ten largest grid companies and the eighth largest by size. Mørenett owned and maintained the regional grid in northern and southern Sunnmøre and the distribution grid in the municipalities of Ålesund, Sula, Giske, Norddal, Ulstein, Hareid, Herøy, Sande, Vanylven, Ørsta, Volda and Hornindal, transmitting all electric power in 12 municipalities in Sunnmøre and parts of Nordfjord. The company served around 73,000 grid customers with a workforce of about 240 employees, and listed offices including Hovdebygda in Ørsta and Gurskøy in Møre og Romsdal. Its owners were Tafjord Kraft (51%) and Tussa Kraft AS (49%), both almost entirely municipally owned. Operationally, Mørenett focused on efficient, safe electricity transport, infrastructure upgrades and safety education for consumers and businesses, while working actively for good energy economy and regional cooperation. It implemented IFS Applications as its core ERP to support finance, distribution, projects, procurement, HR and mobile field service for roughly 240 users, and later adopted Hypergene as a corporate performance management tool for strategic planning, KPI follow-up and company-wide reporting. The company led a NOK 430 million investment programme for 2021–2025, including NIB-financed upgrades of substations, new 132 kV lines and the Eiksund–Rjånes sea cable to increase grid capacity and enable an estimated 100 MW of additional distribution from sustainable sources. All electricity fed into its network was produced from hydropower and one wind power plant, giving a carbon footprint well below EU taxonomy thresholds and supporting wider electrification, integration of renewables, industrial growth and projects such as the Runde Waves4Power wave energy demonstration. In December 2022, Mørenett agreed to merge with neighbouring grid company Linja under the Linja name, creating one of Norway’s largest grid operators with around 100,000 customers across 18 municipalities in western Norway.