FlexSource - Ei R2025-19 Sweden Electricity and Gas Market 2024 (2025)

Source - Ei R2025-19 Sweden Electricity and Gas Market 2024 (2025)


Ei R2025:19 — Sweden’s electricity and natural gas market, 2024. Published October 2025. Annual market monitoring report from Energimarknadsinspektionen (Ei), submitted to CEER and the European Commission per requirements of Directive 2019/944.

Bibliographic details

FieldValue
TitleSweden’s electricity and natural gas market, 2024
IssuerEnergimarknadsinspektionen (Ei)
DateOctober 2025
ReferenceEi R2025:19
TypeAnnual regulatory report (public)

2024 electricity market statistics

Production and prices

  • Total production: 169 TWh (163 TWh in 2023), +4%
  • Wind power: 40.3 TWh, +18% — main driver of production increase
  • System price: 39 öre/kWh (down from 64 öre/kWh in 2023) — fall of 39%
  • Zonal prices: SE1/SE2 ~€27/MWh; SE3 ~€38.7/MWh; SE4 ~€53.6/MWh
  • Negative price hours: 784 hours in 2024, ~9% of all hours — continued upward trend
  • Flow-based capacity calculation introduced in 2024 → increased day-ahead trading capacity but also larger price divergence between bidding zones

Energy storage

  • Installed battery capacity (July 2024): ~370 MW
  • Under construction: >1,400 MW
  • Planned (3–10 year horizon): >8,300 MW
  • Source: Bodecker Partners AB (June 2024) on behalf of Swedish Wind Energy Association

Balancing market

  • mFRR Energy Activation Model (EAM) launched March 2025: activated the automated mFRR activation process and changed MTU from 60 minutes to 15 minutes — aligning with the EU 15-min trend
  • Nordic MARI and PICASSO: Nordic TSOs in the process of connecting to European balancing energy platforms

Network tariffs

  • 17 operators applied demand-based tariffs to household customers in January 2024 (vs 16 in 2023)
  • New 4-component tariff structure (energy charge, demand charge, customer-specific charge, residual) required by January 1, 2027 under EIFS 2022:1
    • Demand charge must be time-differentiated
    • Residual cost distributed based on subscribed power (perceived as fixed by customer)

Bidding zone review

  • April 2025: EU-wide bidding zone review concluded; for Sweden, current 4-zone division (SE1–SE4) proposed as maintained for 2025 reference year
  • May 2025: Swedish Government tasked Svenska kraftnät with analyzing conditions for changing the bidding zone division — acknowledging current division may not reflect upcoming system changes

Energy policy

  • New national energy policy objectives adopted by Parliament in 2024 (Govt. bill 2023/24:105):
    • Planning objective: electricity system development to create conditions for ≥300 TWh demand by 2045; demand targets defined per 5-year intervals (2030/2035/2040/2045)
    • Security of supply objective: electricity system must supply electricity where and when needed, in sufficient quantities and in a socio-economically efficient manner
    • Both objectives monitored starting 2030
  • Reliability standard: unchanged at 1 hour/year LOLE (Ei annual review found no basis to change)

Demand flexibility and flexibility markets

  • Ei updated its flexibility strategy in 2024 (originally published 2020); three strategic areas: efficient markets, efficient grid utilization, flexible electricity customers
  • Ei launched EFFEKT dialogue forum for flexibility stakeholder engagement
  • Published information for customers at ei.se/kundflex
  • Published EV assessment under AFIR (Regulation EU 2023/1804) on how EVs and public charging can contribute to flexibility
  • NC DR: ACER submitted proposal for Network Code on Demand Response to European Commission in spring 2024
  • Local flexibility markets: Ei published spring 2025 follow-up report (Sweco kartläggning) on local flexibility market status
  • Aggregation service provider rules in force since June 1, 2023 (independent aggregators)

Non-concessionary grids (IKN)

  • New rules from January 1, 2025: removed requirement that grid must originally have been used exclusively for own use; introduced exemptions for energy sharing within own property

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