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

• svk.se overview page “Elmarknadsrådet” (published 2026-06-08).
• Arbetsordning för elmarknadsrådet vid Svenska kraftnät, dated 2025-12-03, Dnr 2025/5502.

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 more detailed activities (“närmare verksamhet”) and appoints its members.
• Described as “ett rådgivande organ” (an advisory body) by both documents. The absence of formal decision power is the wiki’s reading of “advisory”, not an explicit statement.
• The stated ambition is to use the council in early stages of market design and development (“tidiga skeden”).
• 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 that “ska ges i rådet” (is to be given in the council; the documents do not say 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

• Meetings are normally held four times per year; extra meetings can be held if needed.
• Unless otherwise agreed, physical meetings at Svk’s office in Sundbyberg; no compensation or travel reimbursement is paid.
• 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.
• Before each meeting the councils’ secretaries coordinate agendas across the three councils (elmarknad, drift, planering) so that important cross-cutting issues are addressed in 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
• External members are appointed by Svk after nomination of one female and one male candidate from the organisation concerned
• Svk aims for an even gender distribution, with at least 40% of members from each gender

Exclusions (deliberate design)

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

• Context: Svk reduced the number of participants and prioritised the actors directly affected by its electricity market development work
• Ei: not ordinary members, given Ei’s role as supervisory authority (tillsynsmyndighet); may be invited to relevant agenda items
• Energimyndigheten: not ordinary members, given the agency’s mandate (“uppdrag”); may be invited to relevant agenda items
• Power exchanges (elbörser): not represented because several exchanges are now active in Sweden and cannot represent each other; Svk instead sees separate forums to take up issues with all exchanges at once

Current membership (2026)

From the svk.se page (as of June 2026); the page’s own role/category labels are kept, anything else is marked as not stated:

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 indicates that BSP representation is filled by open nomination; the documents do not say how Flower and CheckWatt specifically were selected
• 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, presumably in the “larger electricity user” seat, maps to Demand Response and industrial demand flexibility themes