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by cinntaile 1582 days ago
I'm pretty sure they're mostly counting on wind energy to provide the cheap electricity since 0 marginal cost while hydro serves as a reliable backup.
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Traditionally Swedish electricity has been about equal parts nuclear and hydro. Nuclear usually running full out, with hydro used to regulate for daily and seasonal variation.

In recent years they have built a lot of wind, as of 2019 providing 12% of electricity, today almost certainly more. But yes, like you said, hydro is used as the backup for wind.