Ei Effektiviseringsincitament Regionnät MTFP (2026)

Ei news item (2026-06-24) presenting the part of the RP5 (tillsynsperiod 2028–2031) cost-efficiency incentive method that applies to regionnätsföretag (regional grid companies). Companion to the lokalnät benchmarking method announced in May 2026.

Key claims

• Ei will introduce a new efficiency-incentive method for regionnätsföretag, applied from RP5 (2028–2031).
• The method uses a productivity measure — multifaktorproduktivitet (MTFP / multifactor productivity) — instead of the current generellt krav (general efficiency requirement) applied to historical “påverkbara” (controllable) operating costs.
• Reason it differs from lokalnät: the goal is to enable a TOTEX regulation as for lokalnät, but regionnätsföretag are far fewer, which makes traditional relative benchmarking less suitable (this raw article just says “traditionell benchmarking” — the “DEA-style” characterization is imported from the companion lokalnät source, Source - Ei Benchmarkingmodell RP5 (2026), and should be verified against that page rather than treated as stated here). For a small number of firms, productivity development is a more robust and fit-for-purpose basis.
• MTFP is built on individual productivity development over time (a firm’s own output-to-input trend), not relative efficiency as used for lokalnät — allowing reliable comparison of a small number of companies even when they have different structural conditions.
• Like lokalnät benchmarking, MTFP relates total costs (input) to delivered output, so both operating and capital costs are included → enables a TOTEX method and a regulation that is neutral between solutions (lösningsneutral): firms are incentivised to choose the most cost-effective option whether it is investment or measures with running costs.
• When the normvärdeslista (norm-value list) is removed, the direct incentive for cost-efficient investment weakens; basing the incentive on productivity development of total costs preserves that incentive and makes the regulation more solution-neutral and consistent with lokalnät.
• Next steps: Ei continues developing how the productivity measure is designed and applied — choice of data, model, and how productivity development translates into individual efficiency incentives — to ensure a stable, fit-for-purpose model before RP5.
• Basis: the consultant report “Kostnadsreducerande incitament för region- och transmissionsnät” (published 2026-01-30). This operationalises the MTFP recommendation already made for regionnät/Svk in the Termicum (2025) report.

Relevance to wiki

• Updates Ei — RP5 TOTEX section now has two explicit tracks: lokalnät → DEA benchmarking (May 2026), regionnät → MTFP individual productivity (June 2026).
• Updates Swedish DSO Tariff Reform — Three Parallel Tracks (2025–2027) — the TOTEX/RP5 track.
• New glossary term: MTFP / multifaktorproduktivitet.
• A dated milestone for Wiki/Regulatory Calendar.md (2026-06-24, recently passed).