Tough winter in Sweden – saved by foreign cables

”We managed the situation by importing like never before from neighboring nations,” says Pontus de Maré, SVP at Svenska kraftnät.
Sweden was still depending on energy imports despite reduced consumption at peak capacity. | Photo: Svenska Kraftnät / Tomas Ärlemo
Sweden was still depending on energy imports despite reduced consumption at peak capacity. | Photo: Svenska Kraftnät / Tomas Ärlemo
by linda sandvik, translated by christian radich hoffman

The winter 2022/2023 was the first where Svenske kraftnät (SVK), a Swedish state-owned enterprise and authority, was able to report of a real risk of manual consumption cuts due to electricity shortages. Consumption in the peak hour was lower when compared to earlier years, but the crisis wouldn’t have been relieved without marked increases in import, SVK writes in a press release.

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