The price of electricity has been a debated topic for a long time. On October 30, 2024, Sweden and the other Nordic countries introduced a new system for electricity transfer between the countries.
During the summer of 2025, the next change will come as the electricity market in Sweden goes from hourly price to quartz price.
Given many electricity customers’ concerns about consuming electricity during the so -called price peaks, which are when the variable electricity price is highest on the electricity exchange. In order to minimize the risk of suffering from the price peaks, many Swedes have chosen to move some electricity consumption to times when as few as possible use the electricity, and the price is thus lower, says Dagens Nyheter.
In an interview with the newspaper, the private economist considers Claes Hemberg The fact that the model a variable electricity price provides is misleading and therefore should be scrapped.
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Claes Hemberg, private economist. Photo: Lisa Arfwidson/SvD/TT “Customers have the wrong agreement”
In an independent Demoskop survey, Hemberg has pointed out that 46 percent of electricity customers in Sweden are worried about the price. Four out of five of the respondents have moved their consumption but unfortunately get nothing for it, DN reports.
– Reducing consumption, extinguishing lamps and such is not what will save the big money. It is to move consumption to cheap hours that is Alexanderhugget and it has been understood, but still it will be so wrong when these customers have the wrong agreement, says Claes Hemberg to Dagens Nyheter.
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Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT “The electricity companies must take responsibility”
He also says that the electricity companies have a responsibility in training their customers in that it can be wrong even if you move their consumption to cheap hours, for example at night. It is exclusively about the fact that as a customer you have the right electricity contract, he states.
– The electricity companies must take responsibility for this. Call the customer and say: ‘Hördu Svensson, you have the wrong agreement. This will not help you. ‘ But they don’t.
Instead, Hemberg considers that moving electricity contracts can just as well be banned.
– It’s just as good to ban so we don’t have to do this. If the industry has failed to communicate what it is and consumers do not understand, then it is better to remove it, he tells Today’s News.
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