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District heating and district cooling

The statistics include figures on production and consumption of district heating and district cooling, as well as main technical and economic figures, for example sales incomes.

Updated: 13 May 2024
Next update: 13 May 2025
Modified: Investment figures for district heating for 2023 was published in table 2 and Statbank table 04729.

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  • District heating delivered to consumers, district heating price, investments
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    District heating delivered to consumers, district heating price, investments
    2023Share in per centPer cent change compared to last year
    District heating delivered to cunsumer (GWh)7 045100.011.8
    ¬ Households1 92527.316.5
    ¬ Manufacturing etc.1 06015.07.9
    ¬ Construction1482.10.0
    ¬ Services3 80654.011.1
    Other1 1051.516.7
    Average price district heating (taxes excluded) (øre/kWh)100.4-15.8
    Total investments (1 000 NOK)2 289 41335.0
    1Agriculture, sewerage and waste management, own consumption in district heating plants etc.
    Investment figures for district heating for 2023 was published 23 October 2024.
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    StatBank source table 04729
    StatBank source table 04727
  • Balance of district heating. GWh
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    Balance of district heating. GWh1
    2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
    Gross production of hot water and steam5 5706 0006 4096 6896 9497 1496 6377 8997 5438 338
    ¬ Delivered for production of electricity473484436471404480474448472485
    Net production of district heating5 0975 5165 9736 2186 5456 6696 1637 4507 0717 853
    ¬ Losses in the distribution net569623671676738735735778771808
    Delivered to consumers2 3 4 5274 8935 3025 5435 8085 9345 4286 6726 3007 045
    ¬ Households1 0001 0371 2121 3651 4081 5481 4671 7161 6521 925
    ¬ Manufacturing etc.6168478708548017657961 0559821 060
    ¬ Construction......65117130114131148148
    ¬ Services2 9123 0083 2213 1813 3973 3932 9513 6333 4273 806
    Other4 ......78859710113890105
    Memo: Heat not distributed1 004828907981870832945844966831
    1Svalbard is from 2022 included in the statistics back to 1996, but has not been included earlier.
    2Includes district heating delivered to industries in own enterprices.
    3There is a change in the usergroups from 2017, and due to that, the figures are not completely comparable from 2016 to 2017.
    4Agriculture, services related to oil and gas extraction, sewerage and waste management and own consumption for steam/heat production
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    StatBank source table 04727
  • Technical and economic main figures
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    Technical and economic main figures
    2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
    Number of district heating enterprises94100108..............
    Sales incomes (taxes excluded) (1 000 NOK)2 564 3522 718 6733 351 2823 677 9964 500 4204 703 5373 149 0596 153 8507 516 1287 072 979
    Average price district heating (taxes excluded) (øre/kWh)58.558.063.566.777.579.358.092.2119.3100.4
    ¬ Households (taxes excluded) (øre/kWh)59.657.366.569.681.681.155.9100.8109.7101.9
    ¬ Manufacturing etc. (taxes excluded) (øre/kWh)33.737.843.538.442.645.938.344.956.759.7
    ¬ Services (taxes excluded) (øre/kWh)61.160.467.873.583.985.664.1101.7141.3110.3
    Length of the distribution net (km)1 766.41 842.01 897.81 905.01 909.41 957.12 008.02 024.22 173.82 216.3
    Total investments (1 000 NOK)1 466 6171 481 5741 539 0501 253 3751 206 0601 368 9731 386 5681 474 9261 696 3992 289 413
    Investments in production plant (1 000 NOK)944 938996 846849 999660 883574 433594 803634 996678 380812 5511 533 206
    Investments in distribution plant (1 000 NOK)401 640382 627655 019495 245553 180701 939701 269710 842657 353512 421
    Other investments (1 000 NOK)120 039102 10134 03297 24678 44872 23250 30485 704226 495243 786
    Investment figures for district heating for 2023 was published 23 October 2024.
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    StatBank source table 04729
  • Consumption of fuel used for gross production of district heating. GWh
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    Consumption of fuel used for gross production of district heating. GWh
    2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
    Total6 679.47 277.87 640.37 737.18 226.78 259.17 767.49 205.88 809.89 637.2
    Gas-/diesel oils, heavy fuel oils106.899.6112.470.165.849.724.288.5108.9119.7
    Bark, wood chips and wood1 1 522.01 879.62 104.12 133.32 354.52 509.42 211.13 074.93 039.63 448.5
    Bio fuel38.035.256.540.190.069.534.3215.5277.6254.9
    Waste3 554.43 835.93 724.63 831.43 972.93 966.33 904.43 987.23 944.74 045.3
    Electricity823.6842.4965.0976.0952.5868.3953.21 032.9715.31 059.7
    Waste heat200.7181.1184.0178.8198.0212.0209.9277.0266.1273.3
    Fossil gas2 190.1177.2251.3255.7312.8298.3158.5277.0177.8252.2
    Biogas3 49.128.738.227.140.048.844.241.247.329.4
    Coal194.8198.0204.2224.5240.2236.9227.6211.6232.5154.4
    Memo: Heat not distributed1 199.61 031.01 101.81 136.21 070.4984.81 115.1924.81 076.2937.0
    1Bio fuel was included in wood chips, wood and bark up to and including 2012.
    2Natural gas, LPG and blast furnace gas.
    3Biogas includes landfillgas. Biogas is included in "fossil gas" for the years before 2010.
    The figure for waste and “Memo: Heat not distributed” was corrected for 2021 on 30 May 2022.
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    StatBank source table 04730
  • Net production of district heating by type of heat central. GWh
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    Net production of district heating by type of heat central. GWh1
    2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
    Total net production5 096.55 515.95 972.76 218.46 545.16 669.06 163.17 450.37 070.87 852.8
    Refuse incineration plant2 494.32 675.52 755.32 923.42 942.62 998.52 927.43 102.83 036.63 079.1
    Oil boilers77.472.766.455.355.841.020.774.585.094.8
    Coal plant65.461.563.167.969.774.475.690.176.049.9
    Wood waste2 873.31 086.81 236.51 312.81 481.81 613.31 319.51 894.01 965.02 290.1
    Bio fuel34.231.750.836.181.065.330.6201.0262.2244.5
    Electric boilers669.1673.1784.4788.6752.0646.4731.7781.3509.2821.9
    Heat pumps467.0542.8574.2602.3643.3694.5663.5735.6669.8737.6
    Fossil gas3 171.3161.0234.1231.4285.3279.2143.4256.0158.7234.4
    Biogas43.629.723.921.935.644.540.538.042.327.0
    Waste heat200.7181.1184.0178.8198.0212.0209.9277.0266.1273.3
    1Svalbard is now included in the statistics, back to 1996
    2Bio fuel was included in the category wood waste up to and including 2012
    3Natural gas, LPG and blast furnace gas.
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    StatBank source table 09469
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About the statistics

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 10 July 2023.

District heating

Steam or hot water that are transported through isolated pipes to households and other consumers, and are getting utilised for heating and hot water. The heat is produced by combustion of garbage/wastes, or by utilising sewer, wood, coal, oil, electricity , heat pumps, industrial waste or other energy products.

District heating plant

A plant that delivers heat through a pipe system to customers outside the company from a heating central with a dimensioned effect of at least 1 MW.

Combined heat and power plant / Cogeneration plant

A plant that produce both district heating and electricity

District cooling plant

A plant that delivers cooling through a pipe system to customers outside the company from a cooling central with a dimensioned effect of at least 1 MW.

District cooling

Cold water that is transported through isolated pipes to consumers. District cooling can be produced by using for example heat pumps, free cooling or absorption cooling.

Gross production of district heating

This includes production of district heating, steam and electricity production in district heating- and combined heat and power plants. Earlier this concept also included "heat not distributed", which is heat from refuse incineration plants that is cooled and not utilized as district heating. This is now deducted from the gross production concept for all years back to 1983. (See "Comparability over time and place")

Consumer groups: The consumer groups are based on Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007).

Households

Also includes housing cooperatives

Manufacturing

  • 05, 07, 08, 09.9 Mining and quarrying
  • 10-33 Manufacturing

Construction

  • 41-43 Construction

Services

  • 45-47 Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
  • 49-53 Transportation and storage
  • 55-56 Accommodation and food service activities
  • 58-63 Information and communication
  • 64-66 Financial and insurance activities
  • 68 Real estate activities
  • 69-75 Professional, scientific and technical activities
  • 77-82 Administrative and support service activities
  • 84 Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
  • 85 Education
  • 86-88 Human health and social work activities
  • 90-93 Arts, entertainment and recreation
  • 94-96 Other service activities
  • 97 Activities of household as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own account
  • 99 Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies

Other

  • 01-03 Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • 06, 09.1 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
  • 35 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
  • 36-39 Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

The consumption categories is separated for households, manufacturing and quarrying, construction, services and other, according to Norwegian Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007).

The categories for energy products follows Statistical classification and codelists.

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