High Electricity Prices and Falling House Prices

Electricity prices on Bornholm rose to over 7 kroner per kilowatt hour on Monday afternoon, and the price is expected to be particularly high on Monday evening and Tuesday. At the same time, new figures show that house prices on Bornholm are falling, while they are rising in the rest of the country. Tuesday will bring overcast weather with temperatures of around 7 degrees.

Electricity prices take a big leap

At Bornholms Energi og Forsyning (Beof), the local utility company, the electricity price has remained stable at around 2 kroner per kilowatt hour, but on Monday afternoon it rose to over 7 kroner per kilowatt hour at around 17:00. This comes after a week with the highest average prices in 4 years.

According to Beof, the cause is the weather conditions, with insufficient sunshine and wind to produce green energy, so the company starts up other, more expensive energy sources such as gas, coal and oil. The electricity price is expected to be particularly high on Monday evening and Tuesday, but during the week the price will return to its usual level, and Beof hopes that towards Friday the prices will be close to the autumn norm. TV 2 Bornholm

Grey weather and around 7 degrees on Tuesday

There will not be much sunshine on Tuesday. According to TV 2 Vejret, there may be a little sun during the day, but mainly clouds, and rain clouds may move in over Bornholm. It should nevertheless remain dry for most of the day, with temperatures peaking at around 7 degrees and a weak wind from a westerly direction.

The wind will pick up in the coming days. On Thursday, the wave height in the Baltic Sea will be around half a metre, but later in the week it will come closer to 2 metres. TV 2 Bornholm

House prices fall on Bornholm

New figures from Boligsidens market index show that the price per square metre for detached houses and terraced houses on Bornholm has fallen by 7.3 percent over the past year. In October last year, one square metre cost an average of 11,807 kroner, and in October this year the price was 10,946 kroner. Nationally, house prices have risen by 8.7 percent over the past year, and from September to October, the average price per square metre on Bornholm fell by 3.1 percent.

It also takes longer to sell a house on the island: the average selling time has risen from 109 to 120 days in a year. In the holiday home market, however, the average price per square metre has risen by 2.1 percent over the past year to 28,409 kroner, and the number of holiday homes for sale has fallen from 111 to 81, a decrease of 27 percent. TV 2 Bornholm

Optimism about cheaper flight tickets

The chairman of Bornholm Passagerforening is optimistic following an inspiration trip to Mallorca last week with the rest of the Trafikkontaktrådet. The council returned home inspired by the 'Mallorca model', which makes it possible to obtain state support for domestic flights, something that is otherwise prohibited in the EU with a few exceptions.

According to the chairman, the model could result in cheaper prices and more departures to Bornholm. Before a process can begin, a ferry agreement must be negotiated, and Trafikkontaktrådet believes it has good cards to play at the upcoming meetings with the Transport Ministry. TV 2 Bornholm

Rønnevej towards Nexø is open again

Rønnevej towards Nexø is fully open to traffic again, after the road had been closed following a solo accident on Monday morning. In the afternoon, Bornholms Politi partially reopened the road while the police carried out the final investigations of the accident site.

The police say that there is 1 casualty, who was flown to Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen by helicopter. TV 2 Bornholm

5000-year-old sun temple gets an upgrade

Around 5000 years ago, large wooden structures rose on Rispebjerg in southern Bornholm, and archaeologists believe that the circular installations may have been part of a sun temple. In more recent times, wooden posts marked where some of the old structures once stood, but they were deteriorating, so the Danish Nature Agency, a government agency, has now replaced the wooden markers at 3 of the circles with posts made of Bornholm granite.

At the same time, the Danish Nature Agency is repairing the viewing tower on Rispebjerg, where a couple of the tower’s wooden posts had begun to rot. The tower is closed while the work is underway. Rispebjerg was later the site of the island’s largest Iron Age fortification. TV 2 Bornholm

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