Norway Grid Rent Calculator 2026 (Nettleie)

Grid rent (nettleie) is the charge for transporting electricity from the power station to your home. It is billed by your local grid company (nettselskap), separately from the electricity you buy from your supplier, and it is the same whichever supplier or price scheme you choose. This calculator adds up a month of grid rent: the fixed charge, which depends on your capacity tier, and the energy charge per kWh, including taxes and VAT. It also shows how much you would save by moving down one tier.

The rates in the calculator are examples. Every grid company sets its own prices, so the default values are Elvia's 2026 household rates, used only to show how the calculation works. They are not your grid company's rates. Replace them with the figures from your own price list before you rely on the result.

How grid rent is built up

• Fixed charge (fastledd): an amount per month. Norwegian rules say it must be set by how much power the customer draws, for example the highest hourly use in a day or an average of several daily peaks. This is why it is often called the capacity charge (kapasitetsledd) or power tier (effekttrinn). Households cannot be charged a separate power charge (effektledd) on top.
• Energy charge (energiledd):a price per kWh, often lower at night and at weekends. From 1 July 2026 the income from the energy charge may be at most half of a grid company's income from each customer group.
• Taxes: the electricity tax (elavgift) of 7.13 øre per kWh and the Enova levy of 1 øre per kWh, plus 25% VAT on the whole grid rent.

Worked example

A household uses 1,247 kWh in a month (the SSB average of 14,964 kWh a year divided by 12). The three highest daily peaks are 6.2, 5.8, 5.5 kWh/h. A peak in kWh/h is the same as the average power in kW during that hour. The average is 5.83 kWh/h, which puts the household in tier 3 (5 to 10 kW) with a fixed charge of NOK 420. Use is spread evenly over the week, so 48% falls in the daytime (weekdays 06:00 to 22:00) and 52% at night and weekends. The energy charge is NOK 481, so grid rent for the month is NOK 901, or 72.2 øre per kWh on average.

If the household keeps its three peaks under 5 kWh/h, for example by not charging the car while the water heater and washing machine are running, the fixed charge falls to NOK 250. Grid rent becomes NOK 731, which is NOK 170 less that month.

Capacity tiers and what a tier costs (Elvia 2026)

Including taxes and VAT. "Per year" assumes the same tier every month, but the tier is worked out again each month. These are the example rates, not your grid company's.

Taxes per kWh in 2026

Of the daytime energy charge of NOK 0.46 per kWh (46.4 øre) at Elvia, 10.16 øre is therefore tax. Households in Finnmark and parts of northern Troms are exempt from the electricity tax, and households in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark pay no VAT on electricity.

Who is my grid company, and how do I find my peaks?

You cannot choose your grid company. Each one has a monopoly in its area, and your address decides which one serves you. Its name is on your grid rent invoice. Changing supplier does not change your grid rent. To find your peaks, log in to your grid company's customer pages or to minside.elhub.no and look at your use hour by hour. Pick the highest hour for each day, then the three highest days. Peaks usually come when several large appliances run together: the water heater, an electric car charger, the oven, a tumble dryer and electric heaters on a cold morning. If you are also choosing between a fixed and a spot electricity price, use the Norgespris calculator, and if you want to cut heating costs, see the heat pump savings calculator.

What this calculator does not cover

It does not know your grid company, so you must enter its rates. Not every grid company measures capacity the same way: some use a single peak, some the average of several daily peaks, and the day and night hours can differ. It covers grid rent only, not the electricity you buy, the supplier's mark-up or monthly fee, or any credit for Norgespris or electricity support. It does not cover business customers, one-off connection fees, or producers with solar panels who sell power back to the grid.