Norway’s energy story

Three policy cases and the reasoning behind them

Case overview

• Smart metering (Demo Steinkjer)• Buildings (Myhrerenga BRL)• Transport (Nobil)• SMEs (Finnfjord)

Case I: Smart metering

• Pilot for smart meter rollout– 700 households initially, 4500

projected. 66 SMEs• Smart meters allow for supplier control of

“low priority consumption such as hot water heating and underfloor heating cables”

• Hourly billing and increased monitoring will be provided to customers.

Smart metering

• Rationale: “The ultimate aim of the demo is that after ten years Steinkjer will have a community of active, aware and adaptable energy customers.”

• This is how they will beactivated and adapted:

Time series analysis

Reasoning

• Consumers unsure what to do with it• Suppliers very keen• National roll-out in 2017

Case II: Building retrofits

• Retrofitting of a housing cooperative outside Oslo to passive house standard

• 168 households in seven buildings, from 1967– Two types: single bedroom and two-bedroom

Retrofits

• Result of complaints about draft, poor indoor climate and high electricity bills

• Thicker insulation, heat pumps, new water heaters, 44 solar heaters

• Projected yearly consumption change: 300 to 80 kWh/m2

Notables

• Initiated by inhabitants themselves– Resourceful and active (not like the people of

Steinkjer?)• Supported by willing agency– Works only for experimental projects?

• Relies on willingness to large outlay with long payback time

Case III: EVs

• Nobil, an online database of all charging stations for EVs nationwide (currently more than 4000), provides real-time information on their status

• Combines GPS data with an online API, for both web and mobile

Norway and EVs

• World’s largest EV fleet in relation to population

• Very favourable incentive structures– Tax breaks, use of car pool lanes, free parking

• Stated goal of increasing EV adoption

How is this efficiency?

• Facilitation for large EV fleets– Urban environments (taxis)– Car pools

• Centralisation of emissions