Sweden halts Denmark power cable over EU revenue rules dispute
Stockholm pauses Konti-Skan Connect project, citing unacceptable EU restrictions on how Sweden can spend congestion revenues from its electricity grid.
What to know
- Sweden suspended the Konti-Skan Connect electricity cable with Denmark over EU rules it says restrict its use of bottleneck revenues—the €7+ billion generated annually from grid congestion.
- At stake: whether Sweden can use these revenues flexibly for domestic energy investments and crisis support, or whether the EU can mandate they fund cross-border capacity.
- The pause marks an escalation in Sweden's broader conflict with Brussels over electricity market rules, with both sides viewing the issue as fundamental to energy policy autonomy.
The dispute Whether EU rules on bottleneck revenue use represent necessary harmonization or unjust constraints on national energy sovereignty and competitiveness. · positions read across 58 posts and comments
EU revenue rules discourage energy infrastructure investment when Europe needs grid capacity most.
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“Who tf tougth it was a good idea to disincentvise building up and maintaining power infrastructure in a time when Europe is desperate for more energy?”
Unique_Tap_8730 · Reddit
Revenue rules create unfair regional disparities if applied unevenly across EU states.
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“South Germany would go bankrupt in a month if they had to divide into zones, that's the reason why but if they force us they should do the same..”
Thyg0d · Reddit
“Who tf tougth it was a good idea to disincentvise building up and maintaining power infrastructure in a time when Europe is desperate for more energy? What you tax you will get less of and this is is taxing having a excess of renewable energy.”
Unique_Tap_8730, Reddit commenter · Reddit · Sep 1
Ebba Busch Sweden's Energy MinisterSwedish Government National authorityEuropean Union Regulatory body
The record 1 articles and posts · last 30 days
What people are saying 23 voices from 2 sites · best of 58 · verbatim
- Sep 4
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Of course they do. When people say "north" or "south" they are referring to the geographical north or south, unless directly stated otherwise. Talk to a Swede and ask them about the demographic composition, and they will all - without exception - tell you that the majority of the population lives in the south.
- Sep 3
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>Could you elaborate on this disproportionality?It's disproportional in that it's more than the swedish would want to give since they'd rather invest it domestically (in energy production and those prices).>By the same token, we should stop exporting fish and oil – that'd be sure to lower the price of both commodities domestically.It would and I…
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> It appears to be higher electricity prices whilst the compensation given doesn't adequately match and goes disproportionally to what's essentially a middleman.Could you elaborate on this disproportionality?> Is it then not better for the population to essentially reward it's investment in energy production and keep prices low domestically?By the…
- Sep 2
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Indeed. Every time it is mentioned(without fail) how undemocratic the European Commission is, someone points out that the demos has a say via 3 levels of indirections. But that is not at all what democracy is all about.I am supposed to have a say about how the country I live in is run. That is democracy. Not that I get to vote on a person who…
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Do we even have a real choice with our governments? As a minor yet dramatic exemple, last year in France the Front Populaire won the last parliamentary elections, and according to republican tradition and common interpretation of the constitution, should have formed a government. But that was refused by Macron who named yet again an even more…
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I hate to make this argument because the PRC is far from a political ideal for me, but the chinese political system also has elections and votes. Voting is not what democracy is about, and very indirect elections for a vast body with immense powers even less so.I have yet to meet anyone happy with the european commission policies, except for very…
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The Commission will not agree to let Sweden use the bottleneck fees to fund nuclear power production. Or to be more precise, German and Danish high electricity prices financing the expansion of Swedish nuclear sector."Sweden’s center-right government is simultaneously pursuing one of Europe’s most ambitious nuclear expansion agendas, seeking…
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> So congestion revenues are essentially arbitrage?There are significant capital costs to moving power. As I understand it, an example within the US is the relationship between the regional transmission operator (RTO) SPP and MISO, who have overlapping territory. In order for move power between certain areas of SPP, it travels over MISO lines…
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The article isn't, but many accounts now dish out anti-EU narratives in any topic remotely touching Europe.A lot of it for sure is either direct propaganda, or internalized anti-EU sentiments after reading too much of that propaganda on other platforms.Weak Europe is what both Russia and the current US administration are explicitly promoting, so…
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> Because those of high supply get barely anything for it and retain their high consumer prices. So if you're a swede you don't want this connection to even exist.As a Norwegian (very similar situation to the Swedes wrt power export): hard disagree. Most of our electrical power production is publicly owned, so we do indeed get something for the…
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South Germany would go bankrupt in a month if they had to divide into zones, that's the reason why but if they force us they should do the same..
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Sweden has already successfully regulated so that the state-owned grid operator is collecting the profits. But other countries have privatized grids and don't particularly enjoy it when an operator forgoes grid expansion in favor of collecting on the price difference. I guess this will result in a compromise where grid operators are required to…
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Oh for Pete's sake, Sweden. Anything to avoid building more North-South connectivity.Sweden is currently split into four pricing areas due to lack of grid capacity. All the cheap electricity is typically in the north (hydro) and then the price creeps up when you head south.It's too bad the live electricity flow data is offline today, but there's a…
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There is not EU bashing, there is EU political confrontation between rational and irrational countries. My electricity bill is more expensive because we provide energy to all our neighbors and over that the EC think the french state subsidize its national electric operator too much which slowdown the deployment of new nuclear reactors. That cannot…
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So,1. What does this have to do with Denmark? This is about upgrading an existing link from Sweden to Denmark (seems mainly for maintenance reasons, not capacity; it's only increasing from 715MW to 1000MW)2. Why did the EU have to reassure Sweden wouldn't have to pay bottleneck fees to Denmark?3. If you have such great power generation in the…
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The European council (which consists of elected country heads) nominates a Comission President and the members of the parliament (elected politicians) vote on the nominated president candidate and need absolute majority to confirm. That president then tries to form the commission with one representative from each member state. The parliament then…
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Germany cleverly designed this particular variant of the 'free market' to ensure that access to cheap energy can't be used as a competitive advantage against their industries when they closed their nuclear plants. Having the same price in northern Sweden and Norway in winter as in central Europe is insane.Now Sweden is stuck in a terrible…
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This is a good live map of how Europe is partitioned into zones and what their prices are. Right now you can see a large price difference between Sweden and Denmark and also with Norway.Britain is often suffering high prices, likely due to lack of capacity in connections with the mainland EU.
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Sweden will not pay curtailment fees, such a thing does not exist. The reason is exactly what you quote at the end.To state it again:1. The intranational powercables means that German demand raises electricity prices in southern Sweden, which means businesses and consumers pay a premium vs what they would have paid without the cable2. The extra…
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Europe is scrambling to expand its electricity network, which doesn't have enough capacity. I don't know how badly Sweden and Denmark are affected, but in e.g. the Netherlands it inhibits the move away from fossil fuel for both homes and companies, and even disrupts building developments. So, anything that delays this for unexpected reasons is…
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From an economical and political point of view this is actually interesting.The free market in EU caused the high electricity prices in Germany to be partially transferred to Swedish consumers, despite Sweden being a net exporter.From a political POV, Sweden couldn't really stop this (or the government didnt want to as they were making bilions on…
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Most of the US isn't online yet, so I would expect this to be mostly people from the East side of the pond voting on it. In any case, onto the merits of the article itself:Renewable, net zero energy requires massively expanding the grid to regions that cannot supply enough from regions that can. I.e. hydro during Dunkelflaute.Here, we find yet…
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This news is from May 2026.https://www.europesays.com/dk/80254/> Sweden has ordered the expansion of a key power interconnector to Denmark to be halted after failing to reach agreement with the European Commission over bottleneck fees.The interconnect already exists as Konti-Scan 1 and 2. Konti-Scan Connect, when built, will replace them.What are…