Norwegian hourly residential electricity demand data with consumer characteristics during the European energy crisis

This dataset was collected to understand how Norwegian households responded to the electricity price shock due to the European energy crisis. It consists of hourly metered electricity consumption data from 1,136 residential consumers from October 2020 to March 2022. In addition, consumer characteristics and their responses to the extraordinarily high electricity prices were collected by a survey of 4,446 consumers and are included in the dataset. The consumer characteristics contain information about socio-demographics such as income, age, education, number of residents, residence type, residence size, and how conscious the respondents are about their electricity consumption. Furthermore, major electricity-consuming appliances are identified, such as whether the residents have an electric vehicle and how they heat their homes. These data are interesting to economists, researchers, and policymakers that aim to gain insight into the electricity consumption behaviour of the residential sector and the impact of different socio-demographic variables.

A detailed description is submitted as a data article to Data in Brief.