Electricity, February 2009

The all time high consumption of electricity excluding power-intensive manufacturing can be viewed in conjunction with cold weather in February 2009. Households, services and other manufacturing than the power-intensive account for the majority of the consumption.

Seasonally adjusted figures

The current consumption of electricity excluding power-intensive manufacturing fell by 5.6 per cent from January to February 2009, while seasonally adjusted figures increased by 3.4 per cent.

Considerably fall in the electricity consumption of power intensive manufacturing

The consumption of electricity in power intensive manufacturing came to 2 243 GWh in February, a decrease of 17 per cent compared with the corresponding month in 2008. The decrease is mostly due to lower demand from abroad.

Lower production of electricity

The production of electricity amounted to 12 111 GWh in February 2009, a decrease of 6.5 per cent compared with the corresponding month last year. The filling was below the median during February, and amounted to 45.6 per cent at the end of week 8. The median filling for the corresponding period in the last 17 years is 52.8 per cent.

Net import of power

Norway’s exports of power came to 588 GWh in February, while imports totalled 683 GWh. This gave a net import of 95 GWh.

See also

Prices of electric energy

Tables:

• Table 1 Electricity balance. Monthly. GWh
• Table 2 Production of electricity, on county level. GWh
• Table 3 Consumption excluding power-intensive manufacturing, seasonal and non-seasonal growth from previous month. Per cent