Source - Elmarknadsrådet Website and Arbetsordning (2025-2026)

Two primary documents on the institutional structure of Elmarknadsrådet: Svenska kraftnät’s official web page (retrieved June 2026) and the formal Arbetsordning (rules of procedure) adopted December 2025.

Documents

Key claims

Council purpose and mandate

• Elmarknadsrådet is one of Svenska kraftnät‘s five advisory councils, established under Svk’s own arbetsordning §4.
• The GD (Generaldirektör) decides on the council’s activities and appoints members.
• Purely advisory — no formal decision power. Svk retains authority over all matters.
• Intended to function in early stages of market design and development (“tidiga skeden”), not as a post-hoc review forum.
• Complements (does not replace) svk.se communications, public consultations, and specialist reference groups. For deep technical work, separate referensgrupper and expertgrupper are used. The council also helps identify personnel for those expert groups.

Scope of agenda items

Topics brought to the council for dialogue:

• Market design and model development, including tariff and fee structure
• Principally important electricity market questions — Swedish, Nordic, European
• Major current issues
• Summary information on important matters discussed in reference and expert groups

Information given as standard items at every meeting:

• Level of transmission network tariff (transmissionsnätstariff), imbalance settlement fee (balansansvarsavgift), and strategic reserve fee (effektreservsavgift / strategisk reserv fee)
• Changes to BSP/BRP agreements and major changes to eSett settlement agreements

Meeting procedures

• Four meetings per year; extraordinary meetings can be held if needed.
• Physical meetings at Svk’s office in Sundbyberg; no compensation or travel reimbursement for members.
• 14-day advance notice with preliminary agenda; member items submitted by day 10; final agenda and materials distributed 7 days before.
• Minutes written by secretary, approved by chair; distributed to members within 2 weeks; members have 7 days to comment; then approved and published on svk.se.
• Minutes also distributed for information to: Elmarknad division, chairs/secretaries of Driftrådet and Planeringsrådet, system division head, and GD.
• Agendas are coordinated across the three councils (elmarknad, drift, planering) before each meeting to ensure cross-cutting issues go to the right council.

Membership composition

Formal composition requirements from the Arbetsordning:

Nomination process:

• Energiföretagen nominates: elnätsföretag, balansansvariga, elhandelsföretag, producenter, and their own rep
• Svenskt Näringsliv nominates: larger electricity users and their own rep
• BSP seats: open nomination via svk.se (to ensure broad reach)
• Svk makes the final decision on all members

Mandate rules:

• 2-year mandates, renewable (no term limit stated)
• Half the members rotate even years, half odd years — for continuity
• Svk nominates one male and one female candidate from each organization for gender balance
• Gender target: minimum 40% from each gender

Exclusions (deliberate design)

Previously included: Energimyndigheten, Energimarknadsinspektionen (Ei), Nord Pool. Now excluded:

• Ei: excluded due to its role as supervisory authority (tillsynsmyndighet) — conflict of interest with advisory council function; can be invited to specific agenda items
• Energimyndigheten: excluded for same reasons; can be invited
• Power exchanges (elbörser): excluded because multiple exchanges are now active in Sweden and cannot represent each other; Svk addresses exchanges through separate joint forums

Current membership (2026)

From the svk.se page (as of June 2026):

2026 meeting dates

Relevance to wiki

• Resolves the data gap on full membership and composition rules in Elmarknadsrådet
• The deliberate exclusion of Ei and Energimyndigheten is a governance design choice relevant to Svenska kraftnät‘s stakeholder engagement approach
• BSP seats via open nomination confirms that Flower and CheckWatt were selected through a competitive process, not legacy membership
• The early-stage ambition (“tidiga skeden”) is relevant to TSO-DSO Coordination — The Central Design Problem — it suggests the council should be seen as a signal of Svk’s direction rather than a final announcement channel
• Ovako AB as the “larger electricity user” seat maps to Demand Response and industrial demand flexibility themes