Re:Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will ...
by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 16, 2022 @05:49PM
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> So how are they able to transfer electricity to Finland, Poland, Germany etc but not from north to south sweden?
That's a strawman. There is energy transfer to all these places, but the capacity is limited in each case.
Completely unnecessary rules were put in place to create submarkets for north and south sweden, and it's these rules that disallow the transfer of the electricity. It's more profitable to limit production to keep prices high in sweden, then export and sell in other countries.
Hydro in sweden was overflowing and forced to produce more electricity in sweden during the fall, prices would be zero and even negative if supply and demand was actually in effect, but this would mean zero profits as well, so it's not allowed.