Water reservoir, Degree of filling | Record low water in reservoirs in Northern Norway

In Northern Norway, the filling rate last week was 14 percentage points lower than normal, while for the whole country it was 7.3 per cent lower, reports VG.

The situation in Northern Norway and Western Norway pulls the median down the most, but Central Norway also has less water than normal.

According to Europower, the reason why there is such a low degree of filling in northern Norway is a lack of water and snow.

– The reason why it is like this is that there have been dry, and at times also cold, conditions in the north for quite a long time, says power analyst Olav Botnen in Volt Power Analytics.

In week 13, there was 5.9 TWh in the northern Norwegian water reservoirs. It is a new bottom record for the price range NO4, writes Europower. Before, the lowest filling rate measured in NO4 was in week 13 in the last 20 years, 6 TWh.

Northern Norway is still the place with the cheapest electricity in Norway thanks to the electricity surplus, both internally in NO4 and in neighboring Sweden.

But when the snowmelt starts and the spring floods hit, Botnen does not believe that prices in northern Norway will fall as they usually do.

– You will hardly notice in terms of prices that Northern Norway will have a spring flood this year, he says to Europower.