Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk or NTE is a

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serving

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

and owned by

Nord-Trøndelag county municipality Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality ( no, Nord-Trøndelag fylkeskommune) was the regional governing administration of the old Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway. The county municipality was established in its current form on 1 January 1976 when the ...

. NTE is one of the largest producers of electricity in Norway, with an annual production of 3,4

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per year (2013). In addition, the company is a provider of electrical installation and electrical application

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ing as well as

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. The company has its headquarters in

Steinkjer Steinkjer is a municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer which is located on th ...

Operations

Power production

NTE operates 22

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s, two

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s and one

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plant, totaling an annual electricity production of 3,4

, about 4% of the total electricity production in Norway. The hydro plants are mostly located in Indre Namdal,

Meråker Meråker is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda, T ...

Mosvik Mosvik is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway. The municipality was part of the Innherred region. The municipality existed from 1901 until its dissolution in 2012. The old municipality encompassed the southern par ...

and

Verran Verran is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1901 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was divided between Steinkjer Municipality and Indre Fosen Municipality. It was part of the Innherred region ...

. NTE's largest plant is the one at Tunnsjødal with an annual production of 840 GWh/year. The bioplant is located in

Inderøy Inderøy is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages include Framverran, Gangstadhaugen, Hylla, Kjerknesvågen, Kjer ...

while the two windmill parks are located at Hundhammerfjellet and

Vikna Vikna is a large island archipelago and a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1869 until its dissolution in 2020 when it joined Nærøysund Municipality. It was part of the Namdalen region. The admini ...

Power distribution

NTE owns the power grid in the entire county. Despite the market being deregulated so anyone can purchase from any supplier in the country, NTE has remained a market share of 96%. The ownership and operations of the power grid was transferred to the subsidiary NTE Nett AS in 2006.

Other operations

The company also construct a network of primarily optical fiber based broadband supplemented with

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to all households in Nord-Trøndelag though the subsidiary NTE Bredbånd AS.

History

On June 22, 1919, the County of Nord-Trøndelag decided to found NTE and build a hydroelectric power plant at

Follafoss Follafoss is a village in the municipality of Steinkjer in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village lies on the northern shore of the Beitstadfjorden, about halfway between the east and west end of the fjord. Follafoss village is about southwest o ...

. In 1923, the power plant started operations. In 1938, NTE made its first acquisition of a municipal power company, Stod electrical works. NTE gradually took over the municipal companies until it owned all the companies by 1989. This was due to a national encouragement from the authorities to create larger, vertical integrated power companies, preferably owned by counties and not municipalities, through the 1970s and 80s. Nord-Trøndelag is the only county that managed to create a fully vertical integrated power company that controlled the entire power grid and all production facilities throughout the entire country, and was wholly owned by the county municipality. The last purchase was

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s ownership in the powerplants in Indre Namdal in 2004. On 5 October 2009, NTE and Østfold Energi announced that they, through their 50–50%

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Norsk Vannkraftproduksjon had bought the power stations Siso and Laksola from

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for NOK 4.3 billion. The shares are distributed between 23 owner municipalities in 2018.

Operations

Power production

Power distribution

Other operations

History

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