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High imports of power to Norway
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2004-07-08T10:00:00.000Z
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Electricity, May 2004

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High imports of power to Norway

Norway continues to import power and May was the seventh consecutive month with net imports. Norway imported 1 493 GWh and exported 224 GWh. Net imports in May have only been higher once, in May 2003.

Production, consumption and export surplus of electric energy per month. GWh

Production, consumption and export surplus of electric energy in October. 1979-2004. GWh

In the last decade, Norway's net exports have been around 950 GWh on average. So far this year we have net imports of 5 224 GWh, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of almost 300 000 households. Electricity consumption in the power intensive industry came to 2 739 GWh in May, an increase of 6.9 per cent compared with the corresponding month last year. Total gross consumption in Norway was 8 946 GWh in May. This is an increase of 1.1 percent.

Low production

The production of power was 7 678 GWh, an increase of 5.3 per cent from 2003. The average May production in the last ten years has been around 9 000 GWh. The county of Hordaland had the highest production in May this year, at 952 GWh. This is an increase of 29 per cent compared with the corresponding month last year.

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