Norway’s electricity system, right now
What Norway is generating and using every quarter hour, and what is flowing on each of its nine borders, from what Statnett publishes on the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform. Statnett publishes no battery figure, so this page says what it can and no more.
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Where the power is coming from, and where it is going
Reading the flows.
Reading the system.
The flow as a table
The batteries
Statnett publishes no battery figure, live or otherwise, and there is almost nothing to measure: NVE, the energy regulator, says Norway has no stand-alone commercial battery of significant size, because its hydro plants already give the system the quick flexibility batteries sell elsewhere. The five batteries of a megawatt or more anyone names on the mainland grid hold 5.2 MW between them; the Norway page lists them and the concession cases behind the ones to come.
The last 24 hours
Reading the day.
Generation by kind, stacked, with the cables’ net import as the pale band at the bottom and the load Statnett reports drawn over it, every quarter hour for 24 hours. Beneath it, on the same clock, the cables: above the line Norway is bringing power in, below it sending power out, which is how it runs almost all the time. The stack ends at the newest quarter hour Statnett has published, between three quarters of an hour and an hour and a half behind the clock.
Hydro is the reservoirs and the run of river plants added, and it is nearly everything. Pumped storage is the plants that can also pump, counted when they generate. Statnett files biomass, offshore wind and “other” as zero all day, so those bands are left out rather than drawn empty; wind is onshore wind.
Frequency
Reading the frequency.
The last hour of the Nordic frequency, as Fingrid measures it. Norway, Sweden, Finland and eastern Denmark run as one synchronous area, so the frequency in Oslo is the one Fingrid publishes from Helsinki, every minute. The target is 50.00 Hz and the shaded band is a tenth either side of it.
The cables
Reading the cables.
Physical flow on each border in the same quarter hour as the generation above, both directions read and netted: into Norway to the right, out of it to the left, in megawatts. The four links to Sweden are named by the zone at each end; the four sea cables by their names.
The five zones, this quarter hour
Reading the zones.
Reading.
Norway is cut into five bidding zones, and each has its own price because the links between them are often full. The pale bar is what the zone generated and the dark bar what it used, in the same quarter hour as everything above, from Statnett’s figures for each zone on the platform.
Generation by production type, actual total load and physical cross border flows from Statnett as the data provider on the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (documents A75, A65 and A11, every quarter hour, each of the five zones read and summed, each border read both ways; the platform’s prices are never read, because ENTSO-E’s data policy keeps them out of its open data). The Nordic frequency from Fingrid’s open data, dataset 177, CC BY 4.0. Statnett’s own Driftsdata and eSett’s settlement data are read every day and held, and nothing from them is on this page. Read through the site’s own worker, fresh for ten minutes and held for an hour. Nothing on this page is modelled.