Never before has electricity cost as much in South-West Norway as it will tonight. Between 7pm and 8pm, the price for each kilowatt hour (kWh) in the price range known as NO2 will be over NOK 10, including VAT. The price without VAT is NOK 8.22/kWh. Then online rent, other costs and VAT are added. If you are entitled to electricity support, this will be deducted. This does not apply to holiday homes. Shower at the cabin: NOK 70 news has received assistance from energy advisor Trond Paasche in Enova’s advisory service, “Enova answers”, to calculate how much a shower can cost when electricity prices are at their highest on Monday evening. The estimate shows that a ten-minute shower with a normal shower head can cost over NOK 70. The price is without electricity support. More about news’s estimate for the shower price news has used these assumptions as the basis for the calculation of how much a typical shower will cost: The shower takes place with an ordinary shower head that is not specially designed to save electricity. Such a shower head can use 16 liters of water per minute. The water must be heated from five to 40 degrees. The shower lasts for ten minutes. , VAT and other fees are added Power support is not included in the price estimate Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / Stian Lysberg Solum What determines the shower price? Let’s take a closer look at how the price can end up at over NOK 70. This determines the price: 1) Amount of water used in one shower. Here, two things are important. How many liters of water go into the shower every minute, and how many minutes do you spend in the shower. A normal shower head can use 16 litres/minute, says Enova. A saving shower can get by with half as much. We turn on the shower with a normal shower head and leave it on for 10 minutes. Then we will use 160 liters of water. 2) Energy needed to heat the water. The cold water to be heated in the water heater has a temperature of around five degrees. If the water in the shower is to be 40 degrees, the water must be heated a further 35 degrees. We set the temperature to 40 degrees. The energy needed to heat the water from one temperature to another is calculated as follows: 1.163 Wh/kgK x 160 kg x 35 K = 6512.8 Wh = 6.5128 kWh So: A shower for ten minutes, with a normal shower head and water with a temperature of 40 degrees, will require 6.51 kWh of electricity. Then we look at the electricity prices. 3) Real electricity price. The price on Monday evenings between 7pm and 8pm is NOK 8.22 per kWh. In addition to this, there are additional costs. Exactly what the final price will be for all electricity customers is difficult to determine. But Enova has helped news make an estimate. Enova states that an average price for online rental for an ordinary consumer can be 29.60 øre/kWh. The consumption tax is 15.41 øre, the Enova tax is 1 øre, and the electricity certificate for a regular consumer will be 0.27 øre. This will be NOK 8.68/kWh without VAT. Together, with VAT, the price for a typical electricity customer can be NOK 10.85/kWh. What will be the price of our ten-minute shower, if you don’t count on electricity support? We multiply power with power price. Electricity price: 6.51 kWh Estimated electricity price with VAT: NOK 10.85/kWh Price tag: NOK 70.69 If the shower takes place in a place where you do not receive electricity support, such as in the cabin, such a ten-minute shower can therefore cost over NOK 70 on Monday evening. If the electricity price had been 50 øre/kWh, which a few years ago was considered a lot, the price for exactly the same cabin shower would have been almost a tenth. Then the price for the shower would have been NOK 7.84 including VAT, the calculation shows.
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