> If it is running 24/7 then it does so because the oil plant is profitable. Not out of necessity.

This feels like your splitting hairs because the root cause is ultimately the same: if it wasn’t necessary then it wouldn’t be profitable.

Roding rain forests is profitable, but not necessary.

Logical fallacy

I didn't say "all things that are profitable are necessary" nor that "profitability" and "necessity" were synonyms. What I said was that the root cause of what makes this particular power plant profitable is the same root cause that makes it necessary.

Not really. It is part of the Swedish capacity reserve during winters, i.e. the national grid operator pays it to be in standby to ensure the reliability of the grid.

Its current operations are because even though it is an expensive oil plant it is profitable to run it for export on the European market.

A Swedish professor in energy systems looked closer at the electricity export compared to the operation of the plant, and out of hundreds of hours operated during this year something like 1-5 hours were not matched by equal or more electricity being exported than it produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGy0Vhgt7E

In Swedish, sadly without subtitles, but an amazing overview of the Swedish electrical system.

While interesting its scope is in the typical Swedish narrow mindedness. Solidarity, the Swedish mantra, a very watered out word here. We are part of EU (Union) comes with some conditions or was it started just for sake of profit?

A bit of a weird tangent, I don't see how this is related to the topic? A private company operates this plant, it will run the plant if it's profitable. It has absolutely nothing to do with "solidarity".

Agree, off topic. Solidarity was in reference to other members of the union. Which I thought had some weight as to why the plant ran in first place. I’m not knowledgeable in this but since it affects me greatly tried to understand the problem in more detail last few months.