Statistics Norway

Electric energy prices, quarterly

1 Electricity prices in the end-user market, quarterly. Exclusive VAT. Øre/kWh
  3rd quarter 2008 Change in per cent 2nd quarter 2008 3rd Q 2007
  Last 3 mos. Last 12 mos.
Households 38.3 51.9  117.7 25.2 17.6
1-year fixed-price contracts 44.1 11.0 20.7 39.7 36.5
Other fixed-price contracts 43.7 11.0 16.2 39.4 37.6
Contracts tied to spot price 40.0  133.9  337.1 17.1 9.1
Variable price (not tied to spot price) 35.6 24.0 82.7 28.7 19.5
           
Services 40.7 79.5  148.9 22.7 16.3
New fixed-price contracts1 40.9 18.2 22.5 34.6 33.4
Old fixed-price contracts1 39.7 14.1 20.4 34.8 33.0
Contracts tied to spot price 41.2  125.3  341.4 18.3 9.3
Variable price (not tied to spot price) 37.2 27.1 87.6 29.2 19.8
           
Manufacturing excl. energy-intensive manufacturing and pulp and paper industry 29.1 24.7 73.6 23.3 16.7
New fixed-price contracts1 46.5 20.9 45.2 38.5 32.1
Old fixed-price contracts1 24.0 -4.9 7.1 25.2 22.4
Contracts tied to spot price 36.9  176.2  589.7 13.3 5.3
Variable price (not tied to spot price) 46.4 48.7  140.8 31.2 19.3
           
Energy-intensive manufacturing and pulp and paper industry2 20.0 -2.3 26.3 20.5 15.8
Old fixed-price contracts1 and contracts not entered in the market 19.7 -4.7 19.2 20.6 16.5
Contracts tied to spot price 34.8 77.7  440.3 19.6 6.4
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 (not tied to spot price).

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