Abstract
This dataset was collected to understand how Norwegian households responded to the electricity price shock due to the European energy crisis. It consists of consumer characteristics and their self-reported responses to the extraordinarily high electricity prices which were collected with a survey of 4,446 consumers. The consumer characteristics contain socio-demographic information, such as income, age, education, number of residents, residence type, residence size, and how conscious the respondents were about their electricity consumption. Furthermore, major electricity-consuming appliances were identified, such as whether the residents had an electric vehicle and how they heated their homes, and if they had a dynamic electricity price contract. In addition, the dataset includes hourly metered electricity consumption data covering October 2020 to March 2022 from a subset of 1,136 residential consumers of the surveyed households, the total hourly residential electricity consumption per Norwegian bidding area from July 2019 to July 2022, and the hourly day-ahead electricity prices. These data are interesting to researchers that aim to gain insight into the electricity consumption behaviour of the residential sector and the impact of different socio-demographic variables. © 2023 The Author(s)