[ftrobro]

Interesting that electricity prices are so different than in southern Sweden even though the distance to Germany is less than 100 km and our grids are somewhat connected. Here in southern Sweden the cost has been negative during daytime for the past week, a trend that will probably continue over summer thanks to solar energy. The net cost for buying electricity is still a bit over 0 though, because of taxes and transfer fees.

[wasmitnetzen]

There's only 600MW of direct grid connection between Sweden and Germany[1]. Southern Sweden uses 4GW right now, Germany 47GW.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Cable

[dijit]

SOUTHERN? Sweden? We have the worst electric prices within Sweden. (Malmö at least), the connections to the north where there is a lot of power generation is really weak and they shut down nearly all the power plants in the region, so we are stuck importing expensive energy.

My building has solar on the roof and a collective agreement with e.on precisely to try to control the insane costs.

[ftrobro]

Prices were high two years ago, but that is no longer the case. A lot of solar power came online last year. Currently the price is negative:

https://www.eon.se/el/elpriser/aktuella

[Hikikomori]

And then locals dont want wind power.

[distances]

In Finland locals started wanting wind power when it became clear a wind power park can bring considerable tax income for a small municipality.