Statistics Norway

Electric energy prices, quarterly

2 Electricity prices and grid rent for households, quarterly
  1st quarter 2010 Change in per cent 4th quarter 2009 1st quarter 2009 20072 20082 20092
  Last 3 mos. Last 12 mos.
Electricity price excl. VAT 53.6 66.9 32.4 32.1 40.5     28.1     39.1      35.2
Electricity price incl. VAT 65.3 66.9 32.4 39.1 49.3 34.4 47.7 42.9
Grid rent excl. taxes 27.6 11.7 11.3 24.7 24.8 23.4 23.9 24.7
Grid rent incl. taxes1 46.7 8.9 8.6 42.9 43.0 40.6 41.6 42.9
                 
Total price of electricity and grid rent excl. taxes 81.2 42.9 24.4 56.8 65.3 51.5 63.1 60.0
Total price of electricity and grid rent incl. taxes  112.0 36.5 21.3 82.0 92.3 75.0 89.3 85.9
1  Tax on consumption of electricity and VAT is included. Tax on consumption is not levied in Finnmark and some municipalities in Nord-Troms. Nordland, Troms and Finnmark do not pay VAT. The price in this table is the average for the entire country.
2  Preliminary estimate.
Source: Statistics Norway and Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate.

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