The project also found that the expected time to failure due to water tree growth will increase if the outer sheath is undamaged after installation and sheath testing is recommended. A more robust outer sheath material has been introduced in all Norwegian XLPE cable constructions. There is widespread political opinion that Norway is to produce all its electricity from own renewable resources. The proposed measures neither stabilize Norwegian energy consumption nor indicate how sufficient electricity can be produced from the country's own renewable resources. A feature of Norwegian domestic winter life is a stove or fireplace with a crackling wood fire.
Many houses have small stoves that keep the home fires burning round the clock during cold spells.
The problem is that these traditional stoves give poor combustion and heavy local emissions. The project was initiated by IEA and is one of many international cooperative initiatives on two-way communications. A full-scale prototype has been installed at the Zeebrugge gas terminal. The concept makes sense in both environmental and financial terms as the risk of ozone pollution and smog will be alleviated and the potential value of recovering such emissions during loading is NOK 500 million yearly. The 2nd generation of the unit is now being built and has resulted in considerable international interest.