Electricity Cost in Norway 2026 (Strømkostnad)

This calculator works out what electricity costs you in Norway: kWh used, times the price of the electricity, plus grid rent, taxes and VAT, expressed per hour, per day, per month and per year. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the unit you are billed in. It is the energy used by a 1,000 watt appliance running for one hour. Prices in Norway are usually quoted in øre per kWh, where 100 øre is NOK 1. The figures apply to 2026.

What is on a Norwegian electricity bill

Unlike in many countries, the price of the power and the price of delivering it are separated. The Norwegian Energy Regulatory Authority (RME, part of NVE) says the three parts, the electricity, grid rent and taxes and levies, each normally make up about a third of the total price. Check your own invoice, because the split varies with the price of power.

The two taxes add 8.13 øre per kWh before VAT, or 10.16 øre with 25% VAT (8.91 øre electricity tax and 1.25 øre Enova levy). They are part of the grid company's energy charge, so they are added to the invoice from the grid company, not from your supplier. This is why the calculator asks for the grid company's energy charge including taxes.

The five price areas: NO1 to NO5

The wholesale price of electricity, the spot price, is set on the power exchange for short intervals through the day. Because the power grid cannot carry unlimited power between regions, NVE explains that Norway is divided into five bidding zones, NO1 to NO5, and the spot price can differ between them. The borders follow bottlenecks in the grid, not the county borders.

Descriptions are approximate. The border between areas can cut through a county, so check your contract or ask your supplier or grid company which area your address is in. Enter the average spot price of your area, not the national average.

Worked example: an average household

A household uses 1,247 kWh in a month (the SSB average of 14,964 kWh a year divided by 12). For prices we use SSB's average for Q2 2026: 100.1 øre per kWh for the electricity excluding VAT (125.1 øre with VAT), and 50.9 øre per kWh grid rent including taxes and VAT. No separate supplier mark-up is added, because SSB's price is what households actually paid their suppliers.

At this spot price the support pays 25.99 øre per kWh, and Norgespris is cheaper by NOK 613 a month. The break-even for the two schemes is a spot price of about 40 øre excluding VAT. The Norgespris calculator goes through that choice, and the grid rent calculator shows how the capacity charge is set. This page keeps to the total cost. In Nordland, Troms and Finnmark there is no VAT on the electricity itself: tick the box in the calculator and enter your own grid rent from your invoice, because the national average includes VAT and electricity tax.

What does 1, 100 or 1,000 kWh cost?

The table gives the cost of a quantity of electricity at some all-in prices per kWh (electricity, grid rent, taxes and VAT together). The NOK 1.18 column is SSB's Q2 2026 average after support. Cost is simply kWh times price.

How much electricity do appliances use?

Energy in kWh is watts times hours divided by 1,000. The table applies that to some example appliances at the SSB average price of NOK 1.18 per kWh. The wattages and hours are illustrative assumptions, so replace them with the figures on your own appliance. Heating dominates: the panel heater alone uses 243 kWh a month, about 20% of the average household's monthly use.

For a fuller look at the biggest saving, see the heat pump calculator, and for a car, the EV charging cost calculator.

Typical use by home type

According to SSB (2022 figures), a detached house uses about 19,676 kWh a year, a terraced house 13,747 kWh and a flat 8,951 kWh. Use peaks in winter, so the month you pay for in January can be several times the month you pay for in July.

If you have just moved to Norway

Sign up with an electricity supplier as soon as you move in. If you have no supplier, the grid company must supply you, but NVE says this is only a temporary arrangement and the price normally lies above what a supplier would offer. Ask your landlord whether electricity is included in the rent or billed separately, since practice varies between tenancies. Compare contracts on the price per kWh and the fixed monthly fee together, not just the mark-up: a low mark-up with a high fixed fee can cost more for a small flat. Winter is the expensive season, so households with a lot of electric heating should compare Norgespris and electricity support (see the Norgespris calculator) before choosing.

What this calculator does not cover

It uses a single average spot price for the month and does not know your hourly use, so it cannot model the hour-by-hour support calculation or the effect of shifting use to cheap hours. It assumes your grid rent is a flat energy charge plus a fixed monthly charge and does not work out capacity-charge steps (use the grid rent calculator for that). It does not cover solar panels and electricity sold back to the grid, business use, or district heating. Supplier mark-ups and fees, and the support and Norgespris rules, can change, so check your own contract and the current rules on NVE's site.