Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk or NTE is a

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serving northern

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county in

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and owned by the local governments of 19 municipalities that it serves. NTE is one of the largest producers of electricity in Norway, with an annual production of 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 or 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 the inne ...

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

Meråker Municipality Meråker is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda which is about west of Storlien in Sweden and east of the town of Stjø ...

Inderøy Municipality Inderøy is a List of municipalities of Norway, 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 village of Straumen, Trøn ...

and

Steinkjer Municipality or 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 the inne ...

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

while the two windmill parks are located at Hundhammerfjellet and

Vikna Vikna may refer to: Places * Vikna Municipality, a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway *Vikna archipelago, including the main islands of Inner-Vikna, Mellom-Vikna, and Ytter-Vikna * Vikna Wind Farm, a former wind farm in Trønde ...

Power distribution

NTE owns the power grid for all of northern Trøndelag 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

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Verran Municipality 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 ...

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

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

and

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counties merged to form

county. At that time the old Nord-Trøndelag county sold the entire ownership of the company to the 19 municipalities in the old Nord-Trøndelag county.

Operations

Power production

Power distribution

Other operations

History

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