Neighbors Åge Kristoffersen and Ronny Tamnes meet at the fence. Only a dirt road separates the two houses in Folldal in Østerdalen. The village is known for cold records and now they have already had the first frosty nights. But the neighbors face the cold winter months ahead in completely different ways. One neighbor skips the shower and works to fill up the annex. The other runs the washing machine, charges the electric car and uses electricity as normal. Because in the middle of the village runs a stream wedge. Kristoffersen has an Eastern Norwegian price for his stream. Ramnes gets the electricity price for Midt-Norway. – It is really unfair, says Åge Kristoffersen. DIFFERENCE: A gravel road separates the two houses in Folldal. But they get their current from different places. Photo: illustration In different stream zones About 1,500 inhabitants live in the village in the north of Innlandet. But they are divided into two current zones. 250 households are located in the Midt stream zone. There, the current in recent days has been between 40 and 60 øre per kilowatt hour. The 700 households in the south of the municipality must pay NOK 6-7 more. They follow the current zone East. Neighbors Kristoffersen and Tamnes coordinate the prices of their streaming apps. – The most expensive thing here is 56.46 øre, says Tamnes. – And here it is eight kroner and 29 øre, says Kristoffersen. He pays 15 times more for the electricity before electricity support. TYR TIL VED: Åge Kristoffersen belongs to the majority of the Folldølanders, he pays the “austland price” for the stream. Last week it was between NOK 7 and 8 per kWh. Photo: Vibecke Wold Haagensen / news The two neighbors thus live quite differently at the moment. Åge Kristoffersen says that he only showers after hard physical work. On a daily basis, he makes do with cloth washing. He will not be using panel heaters and heat pumps this winter. There will also be much less of his hobby, which is baking. – Before, I baked bread several times a week. Now it will be less. But we can’t stop baking cake and buns for the grandchildren either, says Kristoffersen. Ronny Tamnes and his family enjoy the cheap stream. With two adults and four children, there will be a lot of showering, washing and drying. He charges the electric car and partly heats the house with electricity. He says they would probably have used less if electricity had been more expensive. ADVICE ON DRYING: Ronny Tamnes takes advice on using a tumble dryer on his laundry. The “Trønder prize” allowed it. Photo: Vibecke Wold Haagensen / news – Perhaps especially in winter with heating. Now we are as warm as we want, it doesn’t cost us that much. He has great sympathy for those who face much higher electricity prices in the winter. – The distance is small and the price difference large, says Tamnes. Two houses with different prices Another person who can feel the great difference in the village is Marita Nyheim. She actually has two houses, one on each side of the dividing line. Nyheim lives in the same house. She has cheap electricity there. In the other house, she rents out rooms to tourists. Here he pays the eastern Norwegian price, i.e. between NOK 6 and 7 per kilowatt hour. – I have invested in a new dryer and an electric roller in the rental house. It can be left alone. I take the washing home with me again. It’s a bit cumbersome, but it works, she says. ALLOWED TO STAY: Marita Nyheim’s newly purchased tumble dryer is allowed to remain unused Photo: Geir Olav Slåen / news A city crosses borders It is the network company Klive in Tynset that supplies electricity to Folldal. Power lines come from the north and from the south, and roughly where they meet is the border. – A city must cross the border, says Ingvar Brohaug, who is an engineer in Klive. This is “normal separation” and the usual connection in the network, when all switching stations and power plants in the area are working as they should. The border also ensures power supply if the grid goes down in one zone. – Grensa ensures security of supply as best as possible if there is a fault in the network, says Brohaug. From 1 September, the Government increased the electricity subsidy from 80 to 90 per cent when the price of electricity is over 70 kilowatt hours. Both Åge Kristoffersen with expensive electricity and Ronny Tamnes with cheap electricity still seem to have big differences between people. – I treat my neighbor to the cheap electricity. But that’s not how it should be, says Åge Kristoffersen.
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Folldal is divided into two power zones and neighbors have to pay differently for the power – news Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio
