Nordic Electricity Prices (Nord Pool spot, Norway and Denmark)

Day-ahead electricity spot prices (Nord Pool) for the five Norwegian bidding zones NO1-NO5 and the two Danish zones DK1-DK2, in local currency (NOK or DKK) and EUR per kWh. You get one row per hour, or per 15 minutes for Denmark, and optionally one summary row per zone and day with the lowest, highest and average price and the cheapest and most expensive hour.

Every row has the same fields whatever the country: country, area, currency and source tell you where the price comes from, so you can mix Norwegian and Danish zones in one dataset. For the Swedish zones SE1-SE4 use Sweden Electricity Prices, which has the same output format.

Bidding zones

Zone	Country	Area	Largest city	Source
NO1	Norway	Eastern Norway	Oslo	hvakosterstrommen.no
NO2	Norway	Southern Norway	Kristiansand	hvakosterstrommen.no
NO3	Norway	Central Norway	Trondheim	hvakosterstrommen.no
NO4	Norway	Northern Norway	Tromsø	hvakosterstrommen.no
NO5	Norway	Western Norway	Bergen	hvakosterstrommen.no
DK1	Denmark	Western Denmark (Jutland, Funen)	Aarhus	Energi Data Service
DK2	Denmark	Eastern Denmark (Zealand)	Copenhagen	Energi Data Service

Finland (FI) is not included. We did not find an open source for Finnish day-ahead prices that needs no API key and has terms that clearly allow commercial reuse. The ENTSO-E Transparency Platform has the data but requires a personal API key.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
areas	array	all seven zones	NO1, NO2, NO3, NO4, NO5, DK1, DK2.
dateFrom	string	today	First day, YYYY-MM-DD in local time (CET/CEST). Data is available from 2021-12-01.
dateTo	string	from date or today	Last day (inclusive). Can be tomorrow. At most 366 days per run.
resolution	string	hour	hour gives hourly prices. quarter gives 15 minute prices for Denmark from 2025-10-01. Norwegian zones are always hourly.
includeDailySummary	boolean	true	Adds one summary row per zone and day.
currency	string	both	local (NOK or DKK), EUR or both. Controls which price fields are included.
onlyNew	boolean	false	Return only rows that earlier runs with the same input did not deliver. See "Monitoring and scheduling".
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of rows, summary rows included. 1 to 100 000.

One zone for one day at hourly resolution with a summary is 25 rows, so all seven zones for one day are 175 rows. A run with empty input returns today's prices for the first zones in the list (NO1 and NO2) until it reaches 50 rows. Pick the zones you need or raise maxResults to get more.

This input was used for the test run in the Apify cloud that the output examples below come from:

{
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-03",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-03",
  "maxResults": 200
}

It returned 175 rows: 24 hourly prices and one summary for each of the seven zones.

Output

Price rows

Field	Description
country	NO or DK
area	Bidding zone, for example NO1 or DK2
date	Delivery day, YYYY-MM-DD in local time
timeStart, timeEnd	ISO 8601 with the local UTC offset, for example 2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00
resolution	quarter or hour
currency	Local currency of the zone: NOK or DKK
priceLocalPerKwh	Price in local currency per kWh (left out if currency is EUR)
priceEurPerKwh	Price in EUR per kWh (left out if currency is local)
exchangeRateEurLocal	EUR to local currency rate used for the day
source	hvakosterstrommen.no or energidataservice.dk

Excerpt from the cloud run (Norway and Denmark):

{
  "country": "NO",
  "area": "NO1",
  "date": "2026-10-03",
  "timeStart": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00",
  "timeEnd": "2026-10-03T01:00:00+02:00",
  "resolution": "hour",
  "currency": "NOK",
  "priceLocalPerKwh": 1.51913,
  "priceEurPerKwh": 0.13969,
  "exchangeRateEurLocal": 10.875,
  "source": "hvakosterstrommen.no"
}

{
  "country": "DK",
  "area": "DK1",
  "date": "2026-10-03",
  "timeStart": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00",
  "timeEnd": "2026-10-03T01:00:00+02:00",
  "resolution": "hour",
  "currency": "DKK",
  "priceLocalPerKwh": 1.43088,
  "priceEurPerKwh": 0.19146,
  "exchangeRateEurLocal": 7.4736,
  "source": "energidataservice.dk"
}

Daily summary rows

Added when includeDailySummary is true. min, max, cheapestHourStart and mostExpensiveHourStart are based on hourly prices, so a single cheap 15 minute period does not decide the cheapest hour. average is the mean of all prices for the day. hours is the number of hours in the day (23 or 25 on daylight saving days).

{
  "type": "dailySummary",
  "country": "DK",
  "area": "DK1",
  "date": "2026-10-03",
  "currency": "DKK",
  "min": { "localPerKwh": 0.40907, "eurPerKwh": 0.05474 },
  "max": { "localPerKwh": 1.77205, "eurPerKwh": 0.23711 },
  "average": { "localPerKwh": 1.25491, "eurPerKwh": 0.16791 },
  "cheapestHourStart": "2026-10-03T13:00:00+02:00",
  "mostExpensiveHourStart": "2026-10-03T19:00:00+02:00",
  "hours": 24,
  "exchangeRateEurLocal": 7.4736,
  "source": "energidataservice.dk"
}

Price rows have no type field, so you can filter summaries with type = "dailySummary".

Example from a real run

Input:

{
  "areas": [
    "NO1"
  ],
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output (first 3 of 5 rows, values unchanged):

[
  {
    "country": "NO",
    "area": "NO1",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "timeStart": "2026-10-04T00:00:00+02:00",
    "timeEnd": "2026-10-04T01:00:00+02:00",
    "resolution": "hour",
    "currency": "NOK",
    "priceLocalPerKwh": 1.50179,
    "priceEurPerKwh": 0.13865,
    "exchangeRateEurLocal": 10.8315,
    "source": "hvakosterstrommen.no"
  },
  {
    "country": "NO",
    "area": "NO1",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "timeStart": "2026-10-04T01:00:00+02:00",
    "timeEnd": "2026-10-04T02:00:00+02:00",
    "resolution": "hour",
    "currency": "NOK",
    "priceLocalPerKwh": 1.51164,
    "priceEurPerKwh": 0.13956,
    "exchangeRateEurLocal": 10.8315,
    "source": "hvakosterstrommen.no"
  },
  {
    "country": "NO",
    "area": "NO1",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "timeStart": "2026-10-04T02:00:00+02:00",
    "timeEnd": "2026-10-04T03:00:00+02:00",
    "resolution": "hour",
    "currency": "NOK",
    "priceLocalPerKwh": 1.51403,
    "priceEurPerKwh": 0.13978,
    "exchangeRateEurLocal": 10.8315,
    "source": "hvakosterstrommen.no"
  }
]

Run Evwkak0DBnIcnKdlI on 2026-10-04, 5 rows, 3 seconds.

Use cases

• Compare spot prices across Norwegian and Danish zones, or add them to Swedish prices from the sister actor for a full Nordic view.
• Plan flexible consumption such as EV charging, heat pumps or batteries around the cheapest hours.
• Feed a dashboard, spreadsheet or BI tool with daily prices through a schedule and an integration.
• Give an AI agent a small, well described tool for "what does electricity cost in Oslo tomorrow".

Monitoring and scheduling

Set onlyNew to true to use the actor for recurring monitoring. The actor then remembers which rows it has delivered for the same input, in a named key-value store in your Apify account (nightwave-state-nordic-electricity-prices, one record per input). Each run returns and charges only rows that earlier runs did not deliver. The first run returns everything in the selection. A run without news finishes successfully with 0 rows.

A row is identified by zone and start time, and a summary row by zone and day. The input below has no dates, so each run covers the current day in local time. If your client builds the input, set dateTo to tomorrow's date and schedule a run after 13:00 CET to get tomorrow's prices as soon as they are published: with onlyNew the next run skips the hours you already have.

onlyNew and maxResults are not part of the remembered input, so you can change them without starting over. Changing any other field starts a fresh state. To start over with the same input, delete the record in the key-value store.

Example: a daily run at 00:30 local time that returns the new day's hourly prices for all seven zones. In Apify Console, open Schedules, create a schedule with the cron expression 30 0 * * * and add this actor with the input below.

{
  "areas": ["NO1", "NO2", "NO3", "NO4", "NO5", "DK1", "DK2"],
  "resolution": "hour",
  "includeDailySummary": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

The same schedule through the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/schedules?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "daily-nordic-electricity-prices", "cronExpression": "30 0 * * *", "timezone": "Europe/Oslo", "isEnabled": true, "isExclusive": true,
       "actions": [{"type": "RUN_ACTOR", "actorId": "nightwave-owner~nordic-electricity-prices",
                    "runInput": {"contentType": "application/json; charset=utf-8", "body": "<the input above as a JSON string>"}}]}'

Connect a webhook or an integration (Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets) to the actor in Apify Console if you want the new rows sent somewhere when the run finishes.

Good to know

• Prices exclude VAT, taxes, grid fees and supplier mark-ups. They are the wholesale spot price only. Norwegian prices do not include the Norwegian electricity support (strømstøtte).
• Tomorrow's prices are published after about 13:00 CET. If you ask for tomorrow before that, the day is skipped with a log message and the run still succeeds.
• Norway is hourly only. hvakosterstrommen.no publishes one price per hour, so Norwegian rows have resolution: "hour" also when you ask for quarter.
• Denmark has 15 minute prices from 2025-10-01 (Energi Data Service dataset DayAheadPrices) and hourly prices before that (dataset Elspotprices). The source publishes prices per MWh; the actor converts them to per kWh and rounds to 5 decimals. The DKK/EUR rate for the day is taken from the source's own DKK and EUR prices.
• Daylight saving days have 23 or 25 hours. On the autumn day the repeated hour 02:00 appears twice, once with +02:00 and once with +01:00.
• Failed requests are retried three times. If a source returns data in an unexpected format the run fails with a clear message instead of storing broken rows.

Data sources and licenses

• Norway: Hva koster strømmen.no. According to the API page the data is freely available to anyone for any purpose. The source asks for attribution when the data is shown publicly: "Strømpriser levert av Hva koster strømmen.no" with a link.
• Denmark: Energi Data Service by Energinet, under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0, which allows commercial use. Credit: "Source: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk)". The actor converts the prices from MWh to kWh.

The datasets contain no personal data. This actor is not affiliated with Hva koster strømmen.no, Energinet, Nord Pool or ENTSO-E, and Energinet does not endorse it.

Pricing

Pay per event: each dataset row (event price-row, summary rows included) costs USD 0.002, the same as Sweden Electricity Prices. All seven zones for one day at hourly resolution with summaries are 175 rows. With onlyNew you only pay for rows you have not received before. Platform usage is included in the price.

Rows are delivered only after they have been charged. If you set a maximum cost per run (maxTotalChargeUsd), the run stops there and its status message says how many rows were delivered.

Contact

Built and maintained by Nightwave AB. Questions, bugs and feature requests: kontakt@nightwave.se

På svenska

Actorn hämtar dagen-före-priser på el (Nord Pool) för Norges elområden NO1-NO5 och Danmarks DK1-DK2, i lokal valuta (NOK eller DKK) och euro per kWh, per timme eller per kvart (Danmark från 2025-10-01), med en valfri dygnssammanställning.

Exempel från en verklig körning: input och de första raderna i outputen finns i avsnittet Example from a real run ovan (körning Evwkak0DBnIcnKdlI, 2026-10-04, 5 rader, 3 sekunder).

• Varje rad har fälten country, area, currency och source, så att norska och danska områden går att blanda i samma dataset. Formatet är detsamma som i Sweden Electricity Prices för SE1-SE4.
• Finland ingår inte: vi hittade ingen öppen källa utan API-nyckel med villkor som tydligt tillåter kommersiell vidareanvändning.
• Priserna är spotpriser exklusive moms, skatter, nätavgift och elhandlarens påslag.
• Norge publiceras bara per timme av källan. Danmark har kvartspriser från 1 oktober 2025.
• Morgondagens priser publiceras efter cirka 13:00. Före det hoppas dagen över med en loggrad.
• Källor: Hva koster strømmen.no (fri att använda för alla ändamål, hänvisning önskas) och Energi Data Service från Energinet (CC BY 4.0).
• Med onlyNew: true levereras och debiteras bara rader som tidigare körningar med samma input inte har levererat (se "Monitoring and scheduling").
• Pris: 0,002 USD per rad i datasetet. Alla sju områden för ett dygn per timme med sammanställning är 175 rader.
• Kontakt: kontakt@nightwave.se