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     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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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