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We use more electricity than ever.
On Monday this week, Nettavisen wrote about the highest electricity prices since 2018. On Friday morning, prices were the same again, with 206.7 øre per kilowatt hour between 08 and 09 for Bergen and Oslo and 203.6 øre between 09 and 10, figures from the Nord Show. Pool.
At 12 o’clock, prices returned to a more normal level, at 66.6 øre.
The day before, Thursday morning, we used more electricity than ever in Norway, stated Statnett Executive Vice President Gunnar Løvås. On that occasion, he went out and warned about charging the electric car between 08 and 09.
Earlier this week, we asked Anders Lie Brenna, editor of Enerwe.no, who writes about the energy industry, if a fixed price might be a good idea considering horror price days like this (see what answered here).
Is the electric car to blame?
At the same time, we also asked you whether the growing share of electric cars in Norway is to blame for the increase in energy consumption:
– No, I can’t see it, Brenna answers.
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He thinks that you have to look a little upwards, beyond the current itself:
– Electric cars increase energy consumption, of course, but they also help solve a number of problems in the electrical network. It’s wrong to blame electric cars, says Brenna.
Move consumption
He justifies it like this:
– Yes, they increase consumption, but electric cars are perhaps one of the easiest to use when transferring your consumption to a time of day when it is not problematic. It is very easy to charge the electric car at night, whether you connect it manually or use the functions of electric cars. Tesla has, for example, built-in that can be fully charged sometime in the morning, or you can use a charging function that is connected to the electrical network, so you do not charge when energy is more expensive.
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– Electric cars are the ones that, in many ways, have gone the furthest in adapting to fluctuations in electricity prices, so I think it would be wrong to blame them. Yes, it increases consumption, but it is very flexible.
That is why Statnett warned
Marius Holm Rennesund is an expert in the energy market at Thema Consulting. He also doesn’t think that the largest share of electric cars for charging in Norway has anything to do with electricity prices:
– You can have something to say in individual hours of course, because it increases consumption a little, but over time the consumption of electric cars creates so low that it does not matter. It can deliver some spikes in power in a few hours, and that was probably why Statnett wasn’t there and asked people not to charge between eight and nine o’clock, he tells Nettavisen.
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In the past, experts have blamed low and cold winds, which often go hand in hand, and imports for high electricity prices. Rennesund also points to another factor:
– It is clear that there is an underlying consumption growth, both in the form of increased private consumption, data centers and electrification of the platform that increases consumption in total, and in isolation contributes to higher electricity prices.
This will happen with prices in the future.
– But given that we use more and more electricity, should Norwegians fear an even higher electricity price in 5-10 years?
– No, not more expensive than what we are experiencing right now. I think part of the picture here is that many are comparing themselves to last year, which was a very, very exceptional year with prices much lower than what we have seen in over 20 years. Now we are back to a more normal level, we also have some periods in the winter where it rises. We can well imagine that in ten years we will be around 40 øre. It’s more normal if we look back a couple of years, Rennesund tells Nettavisen.
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He says Norway experiences an energy surplus today in a normal year, but that a new licensing system for wind power production means there will be little new wind power for the next 8 to 9 years.
– And then increased electrification will consume some of the surplus energy that we have today, so that’s one of the reasons that prices will probably go up a bit.
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The balance market
Electric cars can have great potential when it comes to utilizing the electricity market, says Brenna, editor of Enerwe:
– You and I, as electricity customers, only interact with the spot market where we buy electricity, but the electricity grid is very special. It must be used and produced at the same time, it must produce as much as you use. So there is something called an equilibrium market, which depends on the fact that if a lot of electricity is used, then more must be produced and if less is used, production must be stopped. In that market, electric cars can play a huge and excellent role, that is, if, for example, an electric company that has control of 1000 or 10,000 electric car chargers can say that they can temporarily turn off the load for a minute, ten or maybe even half an hour. Then they can sell that flexibility in the balance sheet market. Thus, electric cars become part of the solution to ensure that there are fewer problems in the electrical network. It is wrong to say that electric cars are to blame for electricity prices, it will be very strange, Brenna concludes.
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