– People need more predictability and security when it comes to electricity bills. The state must take a larger share of the electricity bill, says CEO Morten Andreas Meyer of the National Homeowners Association.
On Monday, the government must explain to Storting what it wants to do about the electricity crisis and the high prices people have to pay. Since September, the state has paid 90% of the average electricity price each month, for prices above 70 øre. Families have to cover the first 70 cents themselves, plus public taxes.
Homeowners find this arrangement too bad. Because even with the support of today’s electricity, electricity costs for many can still be more than double the common price level in recent years.
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WANTS THE STATE PAYS MORE: Huseirne CEO Morten Andreas Meyer wants the state to take the entire electricity bill when the price drops to 50 øre per kilowatt hour.
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That is why the owners of the House are now sending letters to the Energy Committee and the Storting Finance Committee. Here, homeowners are demanding that the state pay 100 percent of their electricity bill above 50 øre per kilowatt hour.
In the letter, the organization writes that a family with two adults and two children can receive the total electricity costs, including internet rent and public expenses of NOK 7,500 in January, if the average price per kilowatt hour is 10 NOK.
For comparison, the corresponding expenditure in the period 2014–2019 for the same household was NOK 3,100.
– We are calling for the Storting to join on an agreement with a maximum price of 50 øre, says Meyer.
Meyer does not believe that a maximum price will lead to less savings for households and that more support will lead to more electricity consumption.
– People understand how important it is to save electricity, it is about our wallet, but also about solidarity with Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Also, most of us have to save what we can and in the last year we have had to save on electricity. That won’t change with a better compensation scheme, Meyer points out.
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The proposal for the owners of the House rings good in the ears of the spokesman for the energy policy of the Progress Party, Marius Arion Nilsen. Because the FRP has been proposing the same thing since last fall. Nilsen now expects the government to come up with new proposals as early as Monday, which will mean more people will be able to pay their electricity bills.
– Especially with regards to electricity price predictions for the winter, we can get extreme prices, and therefore we need a maximum price of 50 øre to get through all of that, says Nilsen.
But a new lower maximum price for electricity will not be adopted, according to energy policy spokesman Geir Pollestad in the ruling center party.
– Now, since September, we have strengthened the scheme so that it covers 90 percent of the one above 70 øre. There is no need for any strengthening of support, I think it’s a good deal, Pollestad says.
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