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Germany has no understanding of Energy Minister Ebba Busch’s anger towards them regarding electricity prices.
Something the German media has also reported.
– Electricity prices in Sweden are primarily determined by factors within Sweden itself, writes Daniel Greve at the German Ministry of Economy and Climate Action to Aftonbladet.
On Thursday, Energy Minister Ebba Busch (KD) blamed the high electricity prices on Germany.
– I’m crazy about the Germans. You have made a decision for your own area, which you have the right to make. But it has had very big consequences, she said at the time.
Now the power outage has become news on the continent.
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full screenEbba Busch has blamed Germany for Sweden’s high electricity prices. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
“The electricity price is plummeting!”
“Horrible electricity prices!”
You could see those headlines, with exclamation points and an exposed picture of Ebba Busch, in the German newspaper Bild’s online edition today.
But the Germans don’t understand Busch’s anger.
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Limited impact
Aftonbladet asked the German Federal Ministry for the Economy and Climate Action about the Swedish Energy Minister’s actions.
Daniel Greve, who is press officer at the ministry, writes that the Swedish electricity prices are primarily determined by Sweden.
The interconnection of Germany and Sweden generally has a limited impact on Swedish electricity prices, according to him.
“The energy market within the EU is based on interconnected systems that mean that both imports and exports create economic benefits for all member states. Above all, it enables overall economic efficiency that ultimately benefits all consumers in the EU in the form of lower electricity bills,” he continues.
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full screen A wind farm in Klettwitz, Germany. Photo: Matthias Schrader/AP
No plans to divide the country
Clarissa Blomqvist is press officer at the German embassy in Stockholm. She refers to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy’s detailed post on the issue at X.
They write, among other things:
“The energy market within the EU is based on an interconnected system. It is expressly designed so that certain countries at certain times import more electricity and others export more, and vice versa, to increase economic efficiency in Europe. This creates economic benefits for all Member States and allows consumers within the EU to benefit from lower electricity bills”.
German Energy Minister Robert Habeck’s spokesperson says that there is too little electricity production in southern Sweden and therefore Sweden receives high prices and that Sweden should increase transmission capacity towards Europe.
This is reported by Swedish Radio.
Germany also has no plans to divide the country into electricity price areas, which Sweden has been demanding for a long time.
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fullscreenRobert Habeck, Germany’s Minister of Energy. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP