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2023 2024 Per cent change compared to last year Price for households national level. Øre/kWh Total price on electricity, grid rent and taxes 165.6 144.1 -13.0 Price on electricity 85.8 61.4 -28.4 Grid rent 35.6 41.2 15.7 Taxes 44.2 41.5 -6.1 Electricity support deducted 25.1 7.6 -69.7 Total price of electricity, grid rent and taxes. Electricity support deducted 140.5 136.5 -2.8 Economic main figures. NOK million Compensation of employees 11 927 12 756 7.0 Production value 144 358 132 155 -8.5 Cost of goods and services consumed 31 202 32 830 5.2 Value added 113 156 99 325 -12.2 Gross fixed capital formation 25 358 29 095 14.7 Acquisition of fixed assets 25 652 29 572 15.3 Sale of fixed assets 294 477 62.2 1The Norwegian government launched an electricity support package for households, lasting from December 2021 onwards. The electricity support shown in the table is the weighted average electricity support for the whole country. For more information on how the electricity support is calculated, please see the “about statistics”-section on the web page of the statistics. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Prices on electricity and grid rent excluding taxes, by consumer group. Øre/kWhDownload table as ...Prices on electricity and grid rent excluding taxes, by consumer group. Øre/kWh
2024 Total average price excluding taxes Price on electricity Grid rent, weighted average ALL CONSUMER GROUPS 79.3 55.2 24.1 POWER INTENSIVE MANUFACTURING 44.2 41.0 3.2 Manufacture of pulp, papir and paperboard 46.8 45.1 1.7 Industrial chemicals 66.4 58.3 8.1 Iron, steel and ferroalloys 44.7 42.0 2.7 Non-ferrous metals 40.5 37.9 2.6 MINING AND EXTRACTION 67.0 61.9 5.1 Mining 64.9 58.5 6.4 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas together with support activities for this sector 72.8 68.7 4.1 MANUFACTURING EXCLUDING POWER INTENSIVE MANUFACTURING 75.5 55.6 19.9 Food products, beverages and tobacco 79.1 55.2 23.9 Other manufacturing 73.5 55.8 17.7 VARIOUS SUPPLY AND REMIDIATION ACTIVITIES 67.3 47.8 19.5 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution together with distribution of gas thorugh mains 69.6 45.2 24.4 Steam and air conditioning supply 68.1 53.9 14.2 Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remidiation activities 97.2 70.3 26.9 TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE 81.5 56.8 24.7 Passenger rail transport, freight rail transport, other urban and suburban transport 79.8 62.4 17.4 Other transport and storage 82.0 56.0 26.0 Postal and courier activities 91.2 61.7 29.5 CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER SERVICES 90.9 62.1 28.8 Construction 97.8 64.6 33.2 Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 95.5 65.6 29.9 Accomodation, food and beverage service activities 90.6 62.7 27.9 Information and communication 60.1 46.3 13.8 Financial and insurance activities 95.9 66.9 29.0 Real estate activities 98.6 68.2 30.4 Professional, scientific and technical activities 91.0 62.4 28.6 Administrative and support service activities 98.7 68.3 30.4 Public administration and defence, compulsory social security 87.9 58.0 29.9 Streets and road lighting 96.7 59.3 37.4 Education 91.1 62.9 28.2 Human health and social work activities 84.3 58.8 25.5 Arts, entertainment and recreation 102.9 69.7 33.2 Activities of membership organisations 104.8 68.2 36.6 Other service activities 105.4 67.9 37.5 PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS AND AGRICULTURE 102.3 60.9 41.4 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 77.0 50.4 26.6 Hot-houses 86.3 66.5 19.8 Private households 102.6 61.4 41.2 Cottages and holiday houses 124.9 64.7 60.2 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Price on electricity, grid rent and taxes of households, by county. Øre/kWhDownload table as ...Price on electricity, grid rent and taxes of households, by county. Øre/kWh
Total price of electricity, grid rent and taxes. Electricity support deducted Price on electricity Grid rent Taxes Electricity support The whole country 136.5 61.4 41.2 41.5 7.6 Østfold 143.2 71.9 35.6 45.7 10.0 Akershus 137.9 68.7 34.6 44.6 10.0 Oslo 146.5 72.5 37.7 46.3 10.0 Innlandet 134.9 65.0 35.6 43.8 9.5 Buskerud 144.3 67.5 40.3 45.7 9.2 Vestfold 158.8 72.9 47.5 48.8 10.4 Telemark 159.5 71.5 49.4 49.0 10.4 Agder 148.7 72.1 40.2 46.8 10.4 Rogaland 157.6 69.8 49.6 48.6 10.4 Vestland 149.7 60.8 46.9 45.7 3.7 Møre og Romsdal 127.3 44.5 43.0 40.6 0.8 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 129.1 47.3 41.7 41.0 0.9 Nordland - Nordlánnda 92.6 38.5 45.9 15.0 6.8 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 85.4 38.2 40.6 13.4 6.8 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 91.8 37.3 47.9 13.4 6.8 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Prices on electricity traded in the wholesale market and concession power. Øre/kWhDownload table as ...Prices on electricity traded in the wholesale market and concession power. Øre/kWh
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 A. Bilateral contracts, total 28.1 32.7 28.2 21.2 24.0 23.3 19.8 24.5 26.4 33.5 31.7 18.5 39.7 65.3 43.4 37.8 A.1 Contracts up to 1 year duration 30.0 42.4 35.0 23.7 29.2 24.1 19.5 24.2 26.9 40.5 38.0 13.8 56.7 102.4 57.7 46.6 A.2 Contracts up to 1-5 year duration 31.6 39.8 34.4 24.2 28.6 24.5 24.1 24.7 28.7 33.1 32.6 23.3 44.2 83.7 43.1 39.8 A.3 Contracts with more than 5 year duration 25.1 26.4 23.6 19.4 21.3 22.7 19.0 24.7 25.6 22.8 21.7 20.4 27.1 33.6 33.4 30.4 B. Market power trade, total 32.5 45.6 37.4 24.2 30.6 24.7 19.5 25.2 27.6 41.6 38.8 12.8 64.3 131.9 69.1 50.6 B.1 Elspot market 32.5 45.9 37.4 24.3 30.5 24.6 19.4 25.2 27.6 41.6 38.7 13.0 64.5 130.3 68.5 50.8 B.2 The regulation market 30.2 43.1 38.5 23.8 30.6 25.2 20.0 25.1 27.6 41.7 39.6 11.4 62.9 143.5 73.6 49.5 C. Concession power 9.3 10.3 11.1 10.6 10.9 11.9 11.5 11.4 11.8 12.7 12.2 12.2 13.0 13.8 14.3 15.0 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Economic main figures of the electricity industry. NOK millionDownload table as ...Economic main figures of the electricity industry. NOK million1
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Compensation of employees 7 942 8 599 8 678 8 758 8 447 9 059 9 935 10 739 11 927 12 756 Production value 57 754 67 969 68 656 87 829 79 856 70 520 122 447 200 790 144 358 132 155 Cost of goods and services consumed 17 185 18 292 18 621 22 289 20 618 20 509 24 163 31 378 31 202 32 830 Value added 40 569 49 677 50 035 65 540 59 238 50 011 98 284 169 412 113 156 99 325 Gross fixed capital formation 20 708 24 756 27 588 33 282 34 017 35 483 29 356 22 135 25 358 29 095 Acquisition of fixed assets 22 235 25 836 29 806 36 927 36 932 36 312 29 805 23 052 25 652 29 572 Sale of fixed assets 1 527 1 080 2 218 3 645 2 915 829 449 917 294 477 1Gross fixed capital formation = acquisition - sale of fixed assets Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Income statement for enterprises in the electricity industry, by ownership group. NOK millionDownload table as ...Income statement for enterprises in the electricity industry, by ownership group. NOK million
2024 Total Central government County/municipality ...County municipal ...Joint municipal ...Municipal Private Operating income, total 234 555 60 982 111 810 2 766 96 294 12 750 61 764 Sales of energy 170 186 37 695 76 444 2 404 63 836 10 203 56 047 Sales of transmission 50 229 20 109 28 399 0 26 940 1 459 1 722 Other operating income 14 140 3 178 6 968 362 5 518 1 088 3 995 Operating expenses, total 165 427 36 306 74 426 2 078 67 360 4 989 54 695 Purchase of energy 85 239 9 637 35 069 1 596 31 995 1 478 40 533 Purchase of grid services 14 671 3 605 10 200 9 9 591 600 867 Compensation of employees 12 756 4 433 5 899 44 4 822 1 034 2 423 Depreciation 15 558 5 362 7 424 148 6 738 537 2 772 Other operating expenses 37 204 13 269 15 835 280 14 214 1 340 8 100 Operating profit 69 128 24 676 37 384 688 28 934 7 762 7 068 Financial income, total 12 461 2 502 4 501 195 2 459 1 847 5 459 Financial expenses total 18 607 4 525 6 332 104 5 001 1 227 7 750 Financial items, net -6 146 -2 023 -1 831 91 -2 543 620 -2 291 Profit before taxes 62 982 22 653 35 552 779 26 391 8 382 4 777 Taxes 31 760 12 281 17 644 297 13 168 4 180 1 834 Profit after taxes 31 223 10 372 17 908 483 13 223 4 202 2 943 Annual profit 31 223 10 372 17 908 483 13 223 4 202 2 943 Dividends 9 736 842 7 897 3 4 573 3 321 997 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Income statement for enterprises in the electricity industry, by classification. NOK millionDownload table as ...Income statement for enterprises in the electricity industry, by classification. NOK million
2024 35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution 35.111 Production of electricity through water power 35.112 Production of electricity through wind power 35.119 Other production of electricity 35.120 Transmission of electricity 35.130 Distribution of electricity 35.140 Trade of electricity Operating income, total 234 555 103 230 5 815 29 18 490 34 131 72 861 Sales of energy 170 186 95 388 5 152 27 0 725 68 895 Sales of transmission 50 229 217 6 0 17 685 32 050 270 Other operating income 14 140 7 625 657 1 804 1 356 3 696 Operating expenses, total 165 427 50 003 5 206 26 14 070 26 181 69 941 Purchase of energy 85 239 22 604 96 0 0 641 61 897 Purchase of grid services 14 671 2 015 295 0 1 995 10 287 80 Compensation of employees 12 756 5 616 27 0 1 746 3 399 1 967 Depreciation 15 558 4 655 2 193 4 3 293 4 649 764 Other operating expenses 37 204 15 113 2 594 22 7 037 7 206 5 232 Operating profit 69 128 53 227 609 3 4 419 7 951 2 920 Financial income, total 12 461 8 981 451 0 944 406 1 679 Financial expenses total 18 607 7 575 2 098 6 3 155 3 209 2 563 Financial items, net -6 146 1 406 -1 648 -6 -2 211 -2 803 -884 Profit before taxes 62 982 54 632 -1 039 -3 2 209 5 148 2 036 Taxes 31 760 30 322 -438 1 481 1 168 225 Profit after taxes 31 223 24 310 -601 -4 1 727 3 980 1 811 Annual profit 31 223 24 310 -601 -4 1 727 3 980 1 811 Dividends 9 736 5 852 138 0 793 1 108 1 845 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Acquisition and sale of fixed assets, by type of capital. NOK millionDownload table as ...Acquisition and sale of fixed assets, by type of capital. NOK million
Acquisition Sale 2024 Fixed assets, total 29 572 477 Water power plants 1 474 0 ¬ Waterfall rights 13 0 ¬ Waterway regulations 1 462 0 Hydro-electric power stations 4 575 21 ¬ Building construction, hydro-electric power stations 1 435 12 ¬ Permanent mechanical and electrical equipment, hydro-electric power stations 3 140 8 Thermal power plants 23 5 ¬ Building construction, thermal power plants 8 0 ¬ Permanent mechanical and electrical equipment, thermal power plants 15 5 Windpower plants 204 0 ¬ Building construction, windpower plants 94 0 ¬ Permanent mechanical and electrical equipment, windpower plants 110 0 Solar power plants 161 0 ¬ Building construction, solar power plants 89 0 ¬ Permanent mechanical and electrical equipment, solar power plants 72 0 Transmission systems 17 253 141 ¬ Central grid systems 4 709 80 ¬ Regional grid systems 4 645 36 ¬ Local grid systems 7 899 25 District heating 36 0 ¬ Production plants 1 0 ¬ Distribution systems 22 0 ¬ Other, district heating 13 0 Other fixed assets, total 5 846 311 ¬ Control centers 97 0 ¬ Street and road lighting 3 0 ¬ Motor vehicles and other transport equipment 387 108 ¬ Construction machinery 14 3 ¬ Office equipment 996 11 ¬ Offices and premises 890 14 ¬ Dwellings for employees 11 15 ¬ Land 196 7 ¬ Other property 684 10 ¬ Construction roads 84 0 ¬ Tele 365 7 ¬ Fixed assets, other 2 120 135 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 12 November 2025.
Electricity price, i.e. the price that households pay to the electricity suppliers. This part of the power market was deregulated in 1991. Costs relating to electricity certificates, which is a subsidy system for renewable power, are included in the electricity price. According to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) and the Swedish Energy Agency, the cost of electricity certificates was about 1 øre/kWh in 2012 and 2013.
Grid rent, i.e. the price that households pay for the physical distribution of electricity. Unlike the deregulated electricity price, the grid rent is regulated.
Taxes consist of tax on consumption of electricity, value added tax (VAT) and subsidies to Enova. All counties in Norway have the same tax rate for the consumption of electricity, apart from some parts of Troms and the whole of Finnmark, which are exempt. VAT is added after electricity price, grid rent and other taxes have been added. Nordland, Troms and Finnmark are exempt from VAT.
Electricity support: The Norwegian government launched a temporary electricity support package for households from December 2021 . The electricity support shown in the tables is the weighted average electricity support for the whole country. Quarterly electricity support is calculated by taking the weighted average of the hourly electricity support. To calculate the weights, Statistics Norway collect hourly household electricity consumption per spot price area from Elhub. Information about the hourly electricity support is collected from NVE (the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate).
Production value is defined as turnover corrected for changes in stock of finished goods, work in progress and goods and services bought for resale.
Cost of goods and services consumed is the value of goods and services consumed as input in the production process; excluding fixed assets (consumption is recorded as consumption of fixed capital).
Value added is the sum of production value minus the cost of goods and services consumed.
The standard industrial classification 2007 (SN2007) is used for determining the population basis for the statistics.
Name: Business statistics for the electricity industry
Topic: Energy and manufacturing. Establishments, enterprises and accounts
Division for Structural Business Statistics
Table 11011: Prices on electricity, grid rent and taxes for households has data on county level. The other tables have data on national level.
Annual. The statistics are published about 11 months after the reference year.
The annual electricity statistics are reported to Eurostat.
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
The purpose of the statistics is to give an overview over economic key figures of the power industry. The statistics go back to 1937, but have been changed several times since then.
External users are the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, the Ministry of Finance, NVE, Enova, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Eurostat. The data material is also used by the Divison for National Accounts.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
Tables showing electricity prices in the wholesale market and the end-user market are also available in the quarterly electricity price statistics. The quarterly electricity price statistics are based on a sample of enterprises in the wholesale and end-user market, and are released around two months after the end of the quarter. Business statistics for the electricity industry include all the enterprises in the population, and are released about 12 months after the reference year.
The quarterly electricity price statistics have the most up-to-date electricity prices and provide information about different types of price contracts for households. Business statistics for the electricity industry are more detailed and covers the whole population.
For statistics on production, power exchange and consumption, see statistics on Electricity
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
Data are reported to Eurostat according to Regulation 2019/2152.
The enterprise is the statistical unit.
Tables 08358, 11011 and 08360 contains all enterprises that have a license for electricity production, transmission of electricity, distribution of electricity or trade with electricity.
Tables 10438, 13428, 13429 and 08363 contains all enterprises that have a license for electricity production, transmission of electricity, distribution of electricity or trade with electricity and is classified in industrial classification 35.1 (SN2007).
Data collection in collaboration with NVE.
Total Count.
Data is collected in the web based system eRapp in cooperation with NVE. SSB and NVE have separate databases, for their respective needs. SSB use the data for production of statistics and analysis.
The income statements and balance sheets sub-sections of the reporting form are controlled by the respondents registered auditor. The annual reports of the enterprises are used in the revision of the data.
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data. Among other things, maximum and minimum values in addition to percentage changes are calculated.
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Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
Starting in 1993, complete accounting reports with extensive supplementary specifications were collected from all power companies through a collaboration between Statistics Norway and NVE. Following this restructuring several variables were added or modified.
Starting in 2008, the sale to different end users is based on a new version of Norwegian industry classification (SIC2007) . The most important changes are:
- For the first time we also calculate a grid rent for power intensive manufacturing. Since power intensive manufacturing has a very low grid rent compared to other end users, total grid rent for all end users is not comparable with former years.
- We do not publish gross value of production, intermediate consumption and value added at factor prices in the electricity statistics from 2008. Instead of these variables we publish production value, cost of goods and services consumed and value added.
Income statement
Table 13428 and 13429 have been revised. Extraordinary items will no longer be published from reference year 2022. The name of two variables have been changed (profit before and after taxes).
The results of a statistical survey normally contain certain collection and processing errors. Collection errors can occur due to a respondent giving incorrect information because they misunderstand a question, or they may forget to answer a question. Processing errors can occur in the data during the optical reading or during revisions of the sample.
Despite various data controls, errors can still occur. These can include errors that were not possible to detect during the control routines or incorrect evaluations by executive officers in Statistics Norway.
A revision is a planned change to figures that have already been published, for example when releasing final figures as a follow-up to published preliminary figures. See also Statistics Norway’s principles for revisions.
For this statistic, there are no preliminary figures. Revisions may nevertheless occur if significant discrepancies are uncovered.
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