Source - Flexibilitet Energiföretagen Sverige (web, 2025)

URL: https://www.energiforetagen.se/fragor-vi-driver/listsida/flex/ Published: 2025-12-08 Author: Energiföretagen Sverige (editorial) Type: Industry association overview page (web clipping)

Summary

Overview page from Energiföretagen Sverige — the Swedish energy industry association — presenting their position on flexibility and how they organize work on the issue among members. Brief but useful for understanding the industry stakeholder landscape and the NC DR implementation timeline as seen from industry.

Key claims

• Flexibility is a precondition for the Swedish electricity system to handle increasing electrification, growing variable generation, and shifting demand patterns — across time, location, and power dimensions
• AG Helhet Flex (Arbetsgruppen Helhet Flex) is Energiföretagen’s working group coordinating members on flexibility. Three subgroups:
  • Marknadsaccess — market access issues
  • Harmonisering och standardisering — harmonization and standardization
  • SO-koordinering — system operator coordination
• NC DR expected in 2026: “Regelverket håller på att förtydligas och det jobbas med den nya nätkoden efterfrågeflexibilitet som förväntas träda i kraft under 2026.”
• Primary driver of NC DR: enabling faster customer grid connections (villkorade avtal / congestion management context)
• Other drivers: high electricity prices; handling more flexible customers as digitalization and electrification increase
• Success requirements (industry view): predictable rules, better data management, clear actor roles, proportionate requirements that promote development of both small and large flexibility solutions
• Key framing: “Ju fler som kan, desto fler vill bli flexibla” — the more who can participate, the more who will want to be flexible (network effect argument for low barriers)

Relevance to wiki

• Adds Energiföretagen Sverige as a named industry actor in the Swedish flexibility space; they collaborate with Ei and Svk on scenario development (also referenced in Source - Svk Network Development Plan 2026-2035)
• The 2026 NC DR entry into force timeline is consistent with the Commission’s regulatory calendar; provides an industry-source confirmation alongside the academic/regulatory sources
• AG Helhet Flex subgroups map onto the main structural challenges: market access (barriers, bid sizes, aggregation), harmonization (product standardization, CIM, interoperability), SO coordination (TSO-DSO, activation protocols)
• “Faster connections” as the primary NC DR driver aligns with the villkorade avtal analysis in Source - Ei Ställningstagande Ei2025-01 Villkorade avtal (2025) and Svk’s 175 GW connection queue (Source - Svk Network Development Plan 2026-2035)

Limitations

• Very short overview page — no quantitative data, no policy positions beyond the general framing
• No detail on specific Energiföretagen positions on contested NC DR issues (minimum bid size, derogations, etc.)
• The AG Helhet Flex organizational chart (image) was not available in the clipping