Source - FNA Överenskommelse Svenskt genomförande 2026 (2025)

Document: 250526_ok_overenskommelser-svenskt-genomforande-fna-2026-v1.0.pdf Date: 2025-11-25 Signatories: Svenska kraftnät · DSO representatives (Vattenfall Eldistribution, E.ON Energidistribution, Göteborg Energi, Ellevio, Kraftringen Nät) via Energiföretagen Sverige · Energimarknadsinspektionen (Ei) Legal basis: ACER Decision 05-2025, FNAM Annex I (Art. 4 — national implementation agreement)

Summary

A tripartite formal agreement between Svenska kraftnät, Ei, and DSO representatives via Energiföretagen Sverige on how Sweden’s first national Flexibility Needs Assessment (FNA) will be implemented in 2026. The FNA is a biennial mandatory process under the Network Code on Demand Response framework; this agreement documents the 25 binding decisions on data format, scope, reporting chain, timeline, and dispute resolution for the inaugural Swedish cycle.

The agreement explicitly adopts a minimum requirements approach for the first cycle, with ambition to expand scope in FNA 2028.

Key decisions (numbered per the document)

Scope and principles (§1–3)

• FNA 2025/2026 applies minimum requirements from the FNAM; scope will expand in future cycles
• FNA is a description of flexibility needs only — it does not clarify who should procure flexibility or how cost allocation should occur
• Reporting entity = the one experiencing the constraint: a lokalnät reports a flexibility need if its subscription to the overlying regionnät is the binding constraint — even if the root cause is a bottleneck in the overlying network. (This mirrors the Ei2025:01 obligation logic but for the reporting dimension: the local DSO reports the need; the overlying operator bears the obligation to solve it.)
• Connections >50 MW consumption are excluded — Svk already has this data in its scenarios

Reporting chain (§8–9)

lokalnät → fills Excel template per bilaga III
       ↓ reports to regionnät (at connection point)
regionnät → aggregates own + underlying lokalnät data
         ↓ delivers to
Svenska kraftnät → compiles national picture
              ↓ reports to ACER + European Commission

• If a lokalnät connects to multiple regionnät, it splits its reporting accordingly

Technical parameters (§12–20)

What Svk is not reporting in 2026 (§25)

Svenska kraftnät and Ei agreed that Svk will not report transmission network flexibility needs in FNA 2026 (Articles 12.1 and 12.4) — cited reasons: insufficient methodology development. Deferred to FNA 2028.

Svk + Ei agreed to use 3 weather years (FNAM Art. 6.5 minimum), the Energimyndigheten Tabell 32 from the national energy and climate plan as the RES integration baseline (Art. 8.7), and the possibility to finalize the FNA report even without complete DSO data (Art. 16.3 fine-tuning waiver).

Dispute resolution (§6)

If Svk and DSOs cannot agree on a decision point: both parties compile their proposals with pros/cons → submit to Ei → Ei decides (or revises) the governing approach. Ei has supervisory authority for enforcement (§7).

Market barrier and digitalization evaluation (§24)

Svk coordinates an industry survey covering DSOs and flexibility providers on market and digitalization barriers. Svk analyzes and drafts conclusions, checks with DSOs before finalizing. Divergent conclusions may be noted in the FNA report.

Notable omissions and deferred items

Three data elements deferred from FNA 2026 to FNA 2028 are each diagnostic of structural gaps:

1. Contractual means — the parties explicitly cannot agree on which procurement mechanisms (villkorade avtal vs market) apply to which needs, because the regulatory framework is “still unclear.” Direct reflection of the ambiguity that Source - Ei Ställningstagande Ei2025-01 Villkorade avtal (2025) is attempting to resolve.

2. Guiding criteria (Art. 16.4) — assessing the capacity of existing flexibility resources to meet identified needs requires a flexibility register and customer visibility that do not yet exist. Sweden has no national flex register.

3. SO GL Art. 182 grid prequalification agreement — the TSO-DSO agreement on how flexibility activations are constrained for grid safety reasons (required by SO GL) is not yet concluded. Target: H1 2026.

4. Svk transmission needs — the TSO is not yet able to quantify its own network flexibility needs with sufficient methodology; first cycle focuses entirely on DSO-reported needs.

Relevance to wiki

• Introduces Flexibility Need Assessment as a new concept requiring its own page
• Confirms ACER Decision 05-2025 as a significant new piece of secondary EU legislation (not yet in the wiki as a source)
• The reporting chain structure maps cleanly onto the grid hierarchy: lokalnät → regionnät → Svk; same actors, same boundaries, as in Congestion Management and Villkorade Avtal
• Key linkage: FNA is structurally connected to DNDP (Distribution Network Development Plans) — same data, same scenarios. The agreement explicitly allows DSOs to use DNDP 2026 data for FNA 2026 (§23)
• Clarifies a common confusion: FNA says how much flexibility is needed and where. It does not say who procures it or how it is paid for — that remains the domain of the Flexibility Market, Villkorade Avtal, and the Network Code on Demand Response market rules