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Supposedly from northern Sweden, according to a Swedish friend. Take this with a grain of salt. They have a lot of power generation in the north, but not enoug
by oldgradstudent 4y ago
Supposedly from northern Sweden, according to a Swedish friend. Take this with a grain of salt.
They have a lot of power generation in the north, but not enough transmission capacity to transfer it to the population centers in the south, so they have to sell it cheaply to their neighbors, and buy expensive electricity from their neighbors in the south.
This all worked fine when they could buy cheap electricity from their southern neighbors. But now they have a problem.
A few weeks ago there was 10X or more electricity price difference between north and south Sweden.
Take a look at:
https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/ https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/
Pick, for example, August 26, 2022, at 11:04. Prices up north are 14 euro per MWh, and 750 euro per MWh in the south.
- gojomo 4y agoVery interesting! Do you know if Sweden's northern generation surplus via something robust against gas-shortages, like say local hydropower?
- Gwypaas 4y agoLoads of hydro [1], the energy mix in Sweden is usually 45-50% hydro depending on the year. Sweden currently has extremely chaotic electricity prices. Whenever the export capacity is maxed out the prices drops to €10-30/MWh and then instantly recovers to the gas based prices of Europe when it's not. With the recent chaos at the French nuclear plants Sweden became the largest exporter of electricity in the EU. [2] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_stations_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st... [2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sweden-tops-france-europes-largest-net-power-exporter-2022-08-10/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sweden-tops-france-e...