Published: 21 Oct, 2021 CET.Updated: Thu 21 Oct 2021 09:33 CET
Read about BankID outages, a record number of job vacancies and customers feeling cheated by their electricity bill in today's roundup. Pictured is Heggenes in Innlandet.Photo by Fredrik Solli Wandem on Unsplash "
Find out what’s going on in Norway on Thursday with The Local’s short roundup of important news.
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Record number of job vacancies
A record number of vacancies have been listed on the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration’s (NAV) job portal, arbeidsplassen.no.
“Already now, at the end of September, we have even more vacancies through this year so far than we had throughout 2019,” Hans Christian Holte, director of NAV, told public broadcaster NRK.
Nearly half of consumers feel cheated in their electricity deal
A survey conducted for the consumer council has revealed that 45 percent of all those who changed electricity contracts more than once have felt cheated by the agreement.
“Unfortunately, they have every reason to feel cheated,” Inger Lise Blyverket, director of the Consumer Council, told public broadcaster NRK.
“They themselves say that they are transferred to more expensive agreements. It costs more than they thought, or they are exposed to misleading marketing,” she explained.
Blyverket pointed to companies moving the goalposts by changing people’s fixed price agreements or raising previously agreed price caps as examples of why customers feel conned.
Government promises lower grid rent
Grid rent, included in electricity prices to cover maintenance and operation of the power grid, will be lowered to make electricity cheaper in the parts of the country where energy prices are highest.
The government’s policy platform outlined the desire to introduce a geographical equalization of grid rent to make electricity bills cheaper for those paying the most.
Norway’s new energy minister Marte Mjøs Persen has said the government was working on a system but couldn’t reveal many details.
“We must at least arrange it so that it benefits people where there are high electricity prices now. But I will need to come back with a more concrete plan,” Persen told newspaper VG.
657 new Covid-19 cases
On Wednesday, 657 new cases of Covid-19 were registered. This is 245 more infections than the average for the previous seven days.
Total number of Covid-19 cases in Norway. Source: Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
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