Statistics Norway

Electric energy prices, quarterly

1 Electricity prices in the end-user market, quarterly. Exclusive taxes. Øre/kWh
  1st quarter 20123 Change in per cent 4th quarter 2011 1st quarter 2011 Breakdown of electricity sales. Per cent
  Last 3 mos. Last 12 mos.
Households 34.4 -1.5 -40.2 35.0 57.5  100.0
New fixed price contracts1 - 1 year or less 40.0 .. .. .. .. 2.0
New fixed price contracts1 - 1 year or more 39.2 .. .. .. .. 0.9
All other fixed-price contracts 38.8 .. .. .. .. 4.9
Contracts tied to spot price 33.3 -8.0 -38.7 36.2 54.3 60.9
Variable price (not tied to spot price) 35.5 10.3 -44.8 32.2 64.4 31.3
             
Services 32.6 -1.1 -38.4 32.9 52.9  100.0
New fixed-price contracts1 37.2 -0.9 2.6 37.6 36.3 2.2
All other fixed-price contracts1 38.8 -4.5 -8.1 40.6 42.2 4.1
Contracts tied to spot price 32.1 5.3 -40.3 30.5 53.8 89.1
Variable price (not tied to spot price) 33.8 -9.6 -45.5 37.4 62.1 4.6
             
Manufacturing excl. energy-intensive manufacturing 31.8 7.1 -15.6 29.7 37.7  100.0
New fixed-price contracts1 35.9 -8.3 -15.2 39.1 42.3 7.3
All other fixed-price contracts1 35.7 30.7 33.8 27.3 26.7 5.0
Contracts tied to spot price 31.0 -11.6 -41.1 35.0 52.6 84.0
Variable price (not tied to spot price) 37.0 9.0 -28.1 34.0 51.5 3.7
             
Energy-intensive manufacturing2 28.7 3.1 11.0 27.8 25.8  100.0
Fixed-price contracts1 and contracts not entered in the market 28.6 58.9 60.6 18.0 17.8 95.1
Contracts tied to spot price 30.1 -13.1 -43.0 34.6 52.8 4.9
1  New fixed-price contacts are entered into the last 3 months before the measuring week, and older fixed-price contracts are entered earlier.
2  Average for all types of contracts, incl. new fixed-price contracts and variable price contracts. .
3  From 1st quarter 2012 the measuring period covers the whole quarter. Earlier the measuring period was one week in the midle of the quarter.

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