The cold snap lasted about a week.
Now, however, milder air has moved in over both northern and southern Sweden, and the price of electricity differs greatly depending on where you live.
– What we can see is that there are large price variations between northern and southern Sweden, says TV4’s meteorologist Leon Lee.
Big changes in temperature happened in a week. A week ago it was minus 40 degrees in northern Sweden and today it is plus degrees.
Generally, however, it is cold over the continent.
– This means that we can imagine that consumption is increasing today. As for the wind, it doesn’t blow very much, it’s quite calm weather, says Leon Lee, meteorologist.
Large price variations in the country
Although it is high pressure and low winds are expected, the meteorologist says that it can be windy in northern Scandinavia and in parts of the Benelux. However, the wind is expected to be projected primarily over northern Svealand and further north. There is also a lot of wind power in the north.
– Here we have a very clear bottleneck effect where the electricity is locked in in northern Sweden with only 36 öre. While we have upwards of just over krona in southern Sweden, says Leon Lee and continues:
– Here it is actually the price as in Germany today. So there is a very strong price connection to the continent today.
“Energy is lost”
Prices seem to hold for the next three days. It will be low prices and still mild in the north.
– In southern Sweden it will be windier on Thursday, but mostly over the coast and the water so that energy is lost. But it will be somewhat milder in the south anyway.
Towards the end of the week, weather forecasts are more uncertain, therefore so are electricity price forecasts. However, the same tendencies can be expected.
– When we get to Saturday and it gets windy in southern Sweden and across the continent, the low prices spill over.