Bjugn
Bjugn was a municipality on the Fosen peninsula in Fylke Trøndelag in central Norway . As part of the municipal reform in Norway , Bjugn was merged with Ørland on January 1, 2020 .
4904 inhabitants lived in an area of 384 km² (as of January 1, 2019). The municipality number was 5017.
The administrative seat of the municipality was Botngård; it also included the villages of Lysøysund, Olden, Teksdal, Jøssund, Vallersund, Tørrem, Oksvoll, Nes, Tarva, Klakken, Ervika, Eide, Høybakken, Stallvik and Elveng.
Bjugn is the birthplace of the jazz musician Nils-Olav Johansen . The local ice rink was the venue for the 2014 Junior World Championships in speed skating .
economy
In November 2006, five wind turbines were built for Trondheim's energy supplier TrønderEnergi in Valsneset Vindpark on the Valsneset peninsula north of Botngård . Norway's first and only test field for wind turbines is also located here, on which the Viva AS institute, as a subsidiary of the Institute for Energy Technology from Kjeller , operates a small test wind energy system and is planning further systems.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Navn på nye kommuner. February 19, 2019, accessed January 22, 2020 (Norwegian).
- ↑ http://www.tronderenergi.no TrønderEnergi (norw.)
- ↑ http://www.ife.no Institute for Energy Technology (norw.)
Coordinates: 63 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E