NVE: Lower electricity prices registered in the Nordic region last week
Mild weather in the Nordic region contributed to lower power consumption and lower prices last week. Weekly wind power production in the Nordic region was…
Electricity prices
Norwegian government and SV reach agreement on raising the electricity subsidy from 55 to 80%
The Norwegian government and the Socialist Left Party (SV) have reached an agreement on raising the electricity subsidy. From January, the compensation level will increase…
Energi Norge warns against setting a maximum price for electricity
According to Energi Norge, setting a maximum price for electricity could lead to critical energy shortages in Norway and stop the green shift. Several political…
Many sports teams in Norway are shocked by the high electricity prices: “Very worrying”
The electricity costs of sports teams in Norway were on average two and a half times as large in November and December of 2021 than…
High energy prices in Sweden have contributed to the highest inflation in 15 years
Annual inflation in Sweden was over 4% in December. That is the highest inflation since the summer of 2008, before the financial crisis broke out….
Energi Norge: Norway’s public sector will earn an extra 18 billion kroner this winter due to the high electricity prices
Energi Norge estimates that the public sector in Norway will earn an extra NOK 18 billion due to the high electricity prices this winter. The…
Half a million Norwegian households will not receive electricity support automatically
A total of 500,000 households in Norway will not automatically receive the electricity subsidy from the government. The reason is that they get electricity and…
Northern Norway had the cheapest electricity in Europe last year
While the Nordic region registered the most expensive electricity prices in the last 20 years in 2021, Northern Norway had the cheapest electricity in Europe,…
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions wants the state to provide more electricity support
Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions secretary Are Tomasgard demands that the Norwegian state picks up more of the electricity bills. Despite the government’s electricity support…
Electricity support: Norway’s Conservative Party demands an extra 1000 kroner for the unemployed
The Conservatives (H) believe that the state’s help to electricity customers is not good enough. Now they will present a separate proposal which, among other…
Residents of Oslo, Viken, and Innlandet to receive a total of 1 billion kroner in electricity support
Norway’s largest grid company Elvia estimates that it will cost NOK 1 billion in order for each of their customers to receive electricity support in…
Customers in Trøndelag will not receive state financial support to pay their electricity bills for December
The price of electricity per kilowatt-hour in Central Norway was below 70 øre in December, according to Tensio. Thus, customers in Trøndelag will not receive…
Norway’s Finance Minister Vedum promises that the government will put more effort into bringing electricity prices down
Minister of Finance Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (SP) promises that the government will do much more to bring electricity prices down. “We must do much more…
Calculation: Norwegian households’ electricity bill for December has more than doubled
Norwegian households’ electricity bill for December has more than doubled compared to the average for the last five years – even when the state electricity…
Yesterday, electricity in Southern Norway was almost twice as expensive as in Germany
The daily price of electricity in Norway on Wednesday was about twice the price in, for example, Germany and Sweden. According to Nord Pool’s overview,…
The Norwegian parliament requested electricity measures in February – but was ignored by the government
The Norwegian parliament (Storting) asked the former government for measures against high electricity prices already in February – but the government felt there was no…
Nearly four out of ten Norwegians must cut spending in order to be able to pay electricity bills
Many people in Norway have to cut on spending to be able to pay their electricity bills, according to a new Kantar survey. In Kantar’s…
Norway’s Red Party: Electricity support must be paid out before Christmas
The Red Party (Rødt) is not happy with the new electricity support package of measures. The party believes that people should receive electricity support before…
Norway’s Green Party: The new electricity support scheme rewards high power consumption
The electricity support scheme benefits those with high power consumption, the Green Party (MDG) warns, The party is disappointed with parts of the agreement. The…
Labor Party, Center Party, and the Socialist Left Party reach agreement on electricity support measures
The Labor Party (AP), the Center Party (SP), and the Socialist Left Party (SV) have agreed on an electricity support package of measures. “Now people…
