Statistics Norway

Electric energy prices, quarterly

7   Time series covering quarterly prices1 of electric energy in the whole sale market, taxes excluded. Øre/kWh
  1st Q 1998           2nd Q 1998           3rd Q 1998           4th Q 1998           1st Q 1999           2nd Q 1999           3rd Q 1999           4th Q 1999           1st Q 2000           2nd Q 2000           3rd Q 2000           4th Q 2000           1st Q 2001           2nd Q 2001           3rd Q 2001           4th Q 2001           1st Q 2002           2nd Q 2002           3rd Q 2002           4th Q 2002           1st Q 2003           2nd Q 2003           3rd Q 2003           4th Q 2003           1st Q 2004           19982           19992           20002           20012           20022           20032          
$Sales of electricity 15.1 13.8 8.4 13.9 14.3 11.5 9.5 12.9 11.9 8.4 8.9 13.1 24.3 17.0 15.8 16.1 16.9 13.0 14.2 25.6 29.2 20.7 23.8 25.4 21.2 12.8 12.3 10.7 19.2 18.1 25.5
Fixed-price contracts, full time 15.9 15.8 15.2 15.3 15.9 14.0 13.9 14.7 14.3 12.7 11.9 12.9 13.7 12.1 13.6 17.4 16.1 14.6 12.6 11.2 23.7 10.7 10.9 11.1 17.8 15.5 14.7 13.0 14.9 14.3 17.0
Fixed-price contracts, free time 18.6 19.1 17.2 18.0 18.5 16.6 17.7 18.7 19.7 17.0 16.6 17.8 21.5 19.8 17.9 17.8 18.7 15.9 14.4 20.6 26.1 22.1 28.1 24.4 20.7 18.5 17.9 18.5 19.5 18.3 25.0
Contracts not entered in the market 9.8 9.8 9.0 12.5 13.2 9.3 10.3 10.5 11.6 8.8 9.0 12.7 10.9 11.6 10.7 13.0 13.0 12.1 12.3 18.4 14.8 13.8 10.4 10.9 12.7 10.5 11.2 10.7 11.7 14.5 13.1
Spot price and regulation electricity 14.8 11.7 4.8 13.2 14.0 9.5 7.9 12.1 10.1 7.1 7.3 13.0 29.0 19.9 17.6 16.9 17.3 11.5 14.0 29.3 36.4 25.9 29.7 30.6 23.9 10.2 11.1 9.4 22.2 19.2 31.7
Electricity supplier in own enterprise or concern 13.8 12.7 10.4 12.5 12.4 11.7 10.5 12.5 11.4 9.5 10.4 12.3 19.3 15.2 14.6 14.6 16.8 14.3 14.9 22.5 24.3 18.3 18.8 21.4 18.9 12.4 11.9 11.1 16.6 17.5 21.0
                                                               
$Electricity access 12.2 12.3 9.7 12.6 12.0 10.9 9.8 12.8 12.5 8.6 9.7 12.6 21.5 15.8 14.7 15.0 14.3 11.5 12.6 22.6 28.3 21.1 21.1 21.9 19.6 11.9 11.4 11.1 16.8 15.7 23.7
New fixed-price contracts (entered into the last 3 mos.before the measuring week) 20.0 14.2 15.0 13.1 14.1 13.5 11.6 12.7 13.7 8.8 12.9 13.8 13.8 15.6 0.0 : : : : : : : : : : 14.3 13.2 13.2 14.0 13.2 32.1
All other fixed-price contracts 17.0 16.8 15.9 17.4 17.6 15.3 14.7 16.6 19.7 14.0 14.8 17.0 18.5 16.2 17.5 16.9 16.6 14.8 16.8 19.9 22.2 20.5 20.9 22.5 20.9 16.9 16.3 16.9 17.3 16.8 21.7
Contracts not entered in the market 10.0 8.7 8.1 9.5 10.4 9.9 9.2 10.8 10.4 9.9 10.4 10.4 10.4 9.8 10.0 11.5 11.2 11.7 10.0 10.6 12.1 9.8 10.0 10.2 10.0 9.0 10.2 10.3 10.6 10.9 10.6
Spot price and regulation electricity 14.8 11.5 5.3 12.9 13.7 9.5 8.0 12.2 10.7 6.8 7.5 12.9 28.1 19.0 16.4 16.6 15.5 11.0 13.6 27.8 35.5 25.7 29.1 30.1 23.7 11.4 11.1 9.7 19.5 17.7 30.9
Average unit cost of electricity production 8.9 10.6 11.1 11.2 9.7 9.7 9.7 11.5 10.3 7.1 9.4 11.4 21.9 14.7 14.2 14.1 12.9 10.9 12.3 22.0 23.3 20.5 21.8 17.9 16.9 10.6 9.9 9.6 16.5 15.2 20.7
1 The firm prices are based on market terms.
2  Preliminary figures.

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