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State-owned Svenska Kraftnät refused to buy up an extra power reserve in southern Sweden – even though there was a need.
It shows a review that The P1 program Caliber done.
The offer to procure an extra power reserve came in 2019 from the Öresund Agency. The agreement would mean that the cogeneration plant could ensure that there was enough electricity even at times when consumption is at its highest.
But Svenska Kraftnät did not accept the offer and canceled the procurement.
– We thought at the time that this was an offer that we did not see that we wanted to take, says director general Lotta Medelius-Bredhe to Kaliber.
The consequence was that the Öresund Agency, which had the capacity to supply all of Malmö with electricity, was shut down.
Instead, Svenska Kraftnät assumed that industries themselves would take responsibility for reducing their consumption in the event of a shortage, according to the program.
At the same time, the need for a power reserve remained. According to Per Wikström, electricity network expert at Energiföretagen, the Öresund Agency had reduced the risk of electricity shortages this winter.
– After all, it would improve the power balance and reduce the risk of it being available and in operation on the coldest day of the year. And it would be that we cannot get imports then. Then it would sort of mean that the risk of consumption disconnection would be lower, of course, he says to the program.
Today, Director General Lotta Medelius-Bredhe says that she regrets the decision and believes that the situation would have been better if the Öresund Agency had remained.
– Yes, it is clear that it would have made it easier, all electricity production would have made it easier given the situation we have today.
Lotta Medelius-Bredhe, director general at Svenska Kraftnät, today regrets the decision.
– Yes, it is clear that it would have made it easier, all electricity production would have made it easier given the situation we have today.