That said, it would had been better in Sweden if they hadn't phased out nuclear too! There is a electricity shortage in south of Sweden where industries are denied establishing new initiatives.
Sweden has an overproduction of energy, it is just generally generated in the north (where the hydro is) and consumed in the south (where the people are).
The 'shortage in the south' is just a political lens for explaining the high prices from the introduction of energy zones in 2011. Before then, there was one price for electricity in Sweden and this worked to the benefit of the consumer.
Stepping back, do we really want the south to invest in _generating_ electricity? And if so, at what granularity? At the kommun level, or the län? At what point is that granularity ok but the whole-of-Sweden granularity that we had before the privatisation push is not ok?
Yes, that's because all the industry had to move because of the no energy in sweden.
There is no energy shortage in Sweden. They can export as little or as much power as they want. But of course with prices being high that means they export a fair bit and that causes prices to rise. Which is causing Sweden to make a lot of money from this business.
If they want lower prices locally, they should look at their local energy market, infrastructure, and regulations instead of blaming the Germans for being able to pay market rates for energy to Sweden.
This statement definitely needs a source.
The EU have laws that require 70% of the produces electricity to be on the market.
Source, in Swedish: https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/om-elmarknaden/export-oc...
The last government at least put in place windfall taxes to pay us back during the massive cost increase in the first winter after Russia invaded Ukraine. We got compensated a few months later the prices went insane. The current government already said they won't do that, which is rather absurd since a lot of our electricity is generated by Vatenfall, a state company.
End users should not suffer under government / market fuckery.
Sweden started phasing out nuclear in 1999 and has since closed 6 of 12 reactors.
- Barsebäck B1 and B2 was closed in 1999.
- Oskarshamn O1 and O2 was closed in 2015 and 2017.
- Rinhals R1 and R2 was closed in 2019 and 2020.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4rnkraft_i_Sverige#Avvec...