Statistics Norway

Energy account and Energy balance

20 Energy consumption in households. 1990-2008*. GWh
  1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008*
Total except gasoline and auto diesel in private cars1 41 522 42 633 41 850 42 575 44 089 44 636 46 629 44 809 45 677 45 925 44 455 46 601 46 604 44 364 43 523 45 075 44 380 44 665 44 102
Total inclusive gasoline and auto diesel in private cars 58 950 59 697 58 514 59 227 60 768 61 066 63 445 60 956 62 009 62 252 60 380 63 312 63 384 61 315 60 878 62 412 61 756 61 974 61 361
Electricity 30 299 32 614 32 650 32 787 34 015 34 627 35 288 33 978 35 048 35 046 34 628 35 876 34 647 32 023 32 405 34 006 33 646 34 948 34 512
Fuel wood 5 673 5 107 5 009 5 726 6 112 5 957 6 345 6 607 6 286 6 427 6 614 6 905 7 878 7 827 7 359 7 874 7 376 6 763 6 875
Light heating oil and special distillate 3 030 2 615 1 960 1 784 1 575 1 703 2 302 1 749 2 003 2 120 1 352 1 708 1 952 2 105 1 519 1 132 1 241 1 058  913
Heating kerosene 1 921 1 706 1 675 1 700 1 841 1 774 2 095 1 904 1 742 1 723 1 312 1 459 1 420 1 633 1 395 1 192 1 191  930  675
LPG, heavy fuel oil 43 35 34 44 40 40 44 57 59 51 80 85  118  154  173  173  173  150  167
Coal and coke 70 60 48 46 46 44 34 38 41 32 29 19 33 24 22 10 8 6 4
Natural gas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 24 23 23 33 60 43 41 36
District heating  286  295  273  288  260  290  320  276  297  326  238  326  333  375  417  427  502  568  718
Gasoline2 16 951 16 523 16 145 16 158 16 102 15 832 16 039 15 243 15 387 15 320 14 828 15 510 15 419 15 374 15 486 15 064 14 639 13 952 13 184
Auto diesel  678  741  719  694  777  798  977 1 104 1 145 1 207 1 297 1 401 1 561 1 778 2 070 2 474 2 937 3 557 4 276
                                       
Electricity consumption per household, kWh 17 300 18 431 18 262 18 151 18 638 18 779 18 941 18 051 18 428 18 238 17 836 18 290 17 554 16 123 16 215 16 802 16 406 16 764 16 252
Total energy consumption per household, kWh3 23 708 24 093 23 408 23 570 24 158 24 207 25 028 23 805 24 017 23 900 22 898 23 757 23 612 22 337 21 778 22 271 21 640 21 425 20 768
                                       
Number of households4 1 751 363 1 769 502 1 787 828 1 806 344 1 825 052 1 843 954 1 863 052 1 882 347 1 901 843 1 921 540 1 941 441 1 961 548 1 973 794 1 986 117 1 998 517 2 023 945 2 050 866 2 084 686 2 123 585
1  Except gasoline and autodiesel used in private cars. but inclusive of gasoline used in grass cutters etc.
2  Including foreign households' /tourists consumption of gasoline in Norway, and gasoline used in grass cutters.
3  Total energy consumption in households exclusive fuels to private cars, divided on the number of households.
4  The source is Statistics Norways' population and housing census for 1990 and 2001, and interpolated figures for the years in between. From 1995 the source is register based houshold statistics per 1.1. in the year. The figures are here calculated as averages for the years.

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