Energiföretagen Kommentar Konkurrensverkets Granskning (2026)

Energiföretagen Sverige, press statement, “Energiföretagen kommenterar Konkurrensverkets granskning av elnätspriser” (July 2026), responding same-week to Konkurrensverket’s Analys i korthet 2026:3 (published 2 July 2026). Statement attributed to Tomas Malmström, Energiföretagen’s head of grid regulation and market roles.

Industry response

Energiföretagen’s central objection is that Konkurrensverket does not explain the mechanism by which pricing that stays within ellagen’s revenue-cap limits could simultaneously be “unreasonable” under separate competition legislation — since Ei already sets the intäktsram every four years specifically to keep fees reasonable, and can additionally open tillsyn on individual customer-fee design. Malmström calls the reasoning very difficult for the industry to relate to in its pricing (the raw says the mechanism is “inte förklaras närmare”). The clipping also notes Konkurrensverket’s own finding: a risk that current model permits unjustifiably high prices, with the review continuing into actual prices and 2027 pricing.

On the headline comparison of total revenue caps between the 2020–2023 and 2024–2027 periods (168→270 bn SEK per the primary source — not stated in this clipping, which gives no numbers — see the primary source), Energiföretagen notes the comparison uses preliminary revenue-cap figures and expresses them in different money values — a caveat that, per the clipping, the report itself also discloses (“vilket också framgår i rapporten”); Energiföretagen is emphasising it, not raising a new methodological critique. Energiföretagen states it needs to analyze the report further before forming a complete view.

Fakta-block (background context, not new claims)

• Grid investment 2024–2027 forecast at ~30 bn SEK/year, up from ~23 bn SEK/year in 2020–2023, driven by concurrent reinvestment need and electrification-driven capacity expansion.
• Grid fees are ~20% of a Swedish typical customer’s total electricity cost (the raw notes costs vary by customer category, region, contract, supplier and spot price); ~40% of the total is taxes and fees (tax and VAT have been invoiced via the grid bill since 2018).

Relevance to the wiki

A short industry-reaction piece, not a primary regulatory document — its value is capturing Energiföretagen Sverige‘s official framing of the competition-law challenge days after publication, before Energiföretagen’s fuller analysis (not yet published as of this ingest). See Source - Konkurrensverket Analys i Korthet 2026-3 Prisbildningen på Elnätsmarknaden (2026) for the full underlying report and figures.