Mölndal Energi Januari Rekordmånad (2026)

Primary article on Mölndal Energi’s own website (“Januari - en rekordmånad på Effekthandel Väst,” by Rebecca Sinnerstedt), reporting a January flexibility-trading record for Effekthandel Väst driven by an unusually cold January and early February 2026 (Mölndal Energi’s fourth winter participating in Effekthandel Väst since 2022).

The record

• January [2026] total activated volume: 118 MWh (the raw does not say ShortFlex-only; Mölndal-specific by inference; year inferred from the comparison with “hela 2025 (43 MWh)” — the raw metadata’s “januari … 2025” looks like a typo) — driven primarily by the ShortFlex product, more heavily traded than before
• For comparison: all of 2024 = 115 MWh, all of 2025 = only 43 MWh — January 2026 alone matched the entire 2024 calendar year and was more than double all of 2025
• NODES check (retrieved 2026-10-10, Source - NODES Public Market Statistics Sweden (2026)): Mölndal ShortFlex was 117.9 MWh in January 2026 and 43.4 MWh in 2025, consistent with the article. For 2024 NODES shows only 7.7 MWh of Mölndal ShortFlex; 115 MWh matches Göteborg’s 2024 ShortFlex (114.6 MWh) in the same data. The article’s 2024 figure is kept as stated, but its scope is unclear.
• January was the coldest month since Mölndal Energi began participating in Effekthandel Väst in 2022
• The first half of February continued cold, with continued heavy trading (exact February figure not given in this source; see Effekthandel Väst‘s existing monthly table for the platform-wide Feb 2026 total of ~461 MWh)

Operational detail (new)

• Mölndal Energi reviewed and adjusted its prognosverktyg (forecasting tool) this year specifically to ensure trades happen at the right times — an operational refinement not previously documented in the wiki
• Quote from Fredrik Lundmark, here titled “vd Mölndal Energi Nät” (note: an earlier-ingested testimonial clipping titled him “Elnätschef” — likely the same person, title usage differs by source/context; not resolved further here): the January/February trading was decisive for managing Mölndal’s capacity challenge, staying within the capacity available from the regional grid (“hållit oss inom den effekt vi har tillgång till från regionnätet”) and — in a separate quote — avoiding penalty fees (“straffavgifter”) to the regional grid (the earlier “physical overload” and “överuttagsavgifter” wording is not in the raw; over-consumption penalty fees charged by the regional grid, which in turn helps hold down Mölndal Energi’s own grid tariffs
• Reconfirms Effekthandel Väst’s basic mechanism: customers temporarily reduce consumption, increase production, or discharge energy storage to relieve grid load (industrial process pauses, EV charging power reduction, battery discharge)

What this does and doesn’t establish

• This is Mölndal-specific total activated volume (mainly ShortFlex), distinct from the wiki’s existing platform-wide (Göteborg + Mölndal combined) monthly activation table — it does not itself reconcile precisely against the combined figures already in Effekthandel Väst, but is consistent with the existing finding that Mölndal relies more heavily on ShortFlex than Göteborg
• Confirms the DSO-side account (as opposed to the secondary, LinkedIn-relayed version of this same story from Flexia Consulting) — this is the primary source

Relevance to existing wiki

• Effekthandel Väst — precise Mölndal-specific total activation figures (mainly ShortFlex) for January 2026 vs. full-year 2024/2025 baselines; new forecasting-tool detail
• Flexia Consulting — corroborates Flexia’s Mölndal client relationship dating to 2022