– People are no more stupid than reading their own electricity bills, he said in Politisk kvarter on Wednesday. The Storting adopted the new lower winter rate for 2023 on Tuesday, and it will apply to both households and businesses. This means that the electricity tax will be reduced from 15.41 øre per kWh to 9.16 øre per kWh with effect from the turn of the year until the end of March 2023. – We have introduced the electricity subsidy scheme because we want to reduce people’s bills. We have now reduced the electricity tax because we want to mitigate the consequences of the extremely high electricity prices, said Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland (Ap). The reduction in the tax means that a household that uses 3,000 kilowatt hours monthly in the three winter months will save around NOK 190 a month on the new electricity tax. Red politician Mimir Kristjansson. Photo: Rødt – Can’t handle the prices But Mimir Kristjansson (R) believes that electricity prices have become unmanageable for low-wage, social security and minimum pensioners. – They cannot handle these prices. And then it is not possible to say that we cut the electricity tax by 7-8 øre (the electricity tax is reduced from 15.41 øre per kWh to 9.16 øre per kWh). Its nothing. Or: “People should be lucky that we have introduced the electricity subsidy scheme”. – They don’t feel particularly lucky, said the Rødt politician. On Wednesday, Norway had among Europe’s most expensive average prices for electricity, beaten only by Latvia and Finland, figures from electricity exchange Nord Pool show. APS’s leader of the energy committee at the Storting, Marianne Sivertsen Næss, refers to the current electricity price situation as despairing in Klassekampen. – It is a desperate situation. I’ll be honest about that. In general, it is about a deficit in power, she says. – If, for example, one wants to disengage more from Europe or renegotiate agreements, then that will also be something that takes time. Look at how long “Brexit” took, she says. Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB – No “quick fix” – Are you open to Norway being able to detach itself more from Europe, Aasland? – There is no “quick fix” in decoupling the price from European prices. We have a complex system that we must handle with care, and we must be sure that when we implement measures that they actually work, that they improve security of supply and bring down prices, said Aasland. – Now some “quick-fixes” are actually needed, protested Mimir Kristjansson, who took the opportunity to make a combined prediction and claim: – My claim is that at one point or another the electricity price in kroner will catch up with the support to the Labor Party in percentage, Kristjansson said. Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) also pointed out that Norway has water reservoirs that have filled up well during the autumn. – The problem is that we have a price contagion from Europe, through the last two cables, and which we should never have built, said the party leader.
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