Today, the Riksdag is expected to hammer through the spring amendment budget. It also includes a new energy policy goal – to replace the word “renewable” with 100 percent “fossil-free” electricity production by the year 2040.
The opposition, primarily the Social Democrats, is not against nuclear power, but before the vote in the Riksdag has reserved itself against the bill and instead requested a broad political new energy agreement across bloc borders.
Jan-Olof Jacke would also like to see one like this, but thinks that S can now show that it clearly stands up for nuclear power.
— If you are serious about how you view the nuclear power challenge. It is an important decision to make, he says.
But as little as the opposition wants to agree with the government’s writings, S thinks they are too weak because Swedish electricity production is already largely fossil-free, so the government is also not prepared to start any energy policy talks across block borders. They would not be fruitful, says the finance committee’s report.
Both parts are actually stupid, the employers’ organization thinks.
— It is too important an issue for political trench warfare, too important for party political games, says Jan-Olof Jacke.
Today’s parliamentary debate and decisions about the energy policy goal do not solve the energy issues as a whole, according to Jacke.
— But at least it removes an uncertainty, he says.
And with continued political uncertainty around nuclear power, the investments risk not happening, according to him.