Överrullning av Intäkter Energiföretagen (2019-2023)

Energiföretagen Sverige, web page “Överrullning av intäkter” (fråga vi driver / elnätsreglering), authored by Ronald Liljegren (senior jurist). A running account of the political and legal process behind the 2012–2015 revenue-cap deficit carryforward, from the 2019 court ruling through the 2021 law that resolved it.

Timeline

• February 2019 — Kammarrätten rules the unused 2012–2015 cap deficit may carry into 2020–2023 (raw does not name the specific court location here; Source - Prop. 2019-20-53 Underskott Elnätsföretagens Intäktsramar 2012-2015 (2019) separately identifies it as Kammarrätten i Jönköping).
• April 2019 — government promemoria proposes blocking that carryforward after the current period ends.
• Summer/autumn 2019 — Energiföretagen negotiates with Infrastrukturdepartementet, reaching a compromise: the blocked deficit could still be used, but only for investment during the two following tillsynsperioder (2020–2023, 2024–2027), subject to: a 1%-of-2019-capital-base investment threshold (brytpunkt); a 75/25 cost-share above that threshold (75 öre from the deficit per invested krona, 25 öre financed otherwise); new-connection fees excluded from the qualifying investment base; and bilateral carve-outs for Ellevio (Stockholm) and E.ON (Skåne) to address acute capacity shortages in those regions; crediting was done at company level, not per accounting unit (redovisningsenhet); application would use booked values and accrual decisions for connection revenue; and exact settlement mechanics were left for the department to specify later. DSOs had no reason to appeal decisions based on this deal — conditional on Ei not making binding decisions before the new legislation entered into force (raw’s own hedge, dropped in an earlier version of this page).
• 25 November 2019 — Lagrådet reviews the government’s bill, proposes a cleaner formulation with no change of substance.
• 5 December 2019 — Prop. 2019/20:53 decided; in force 1 April 2020, blocking the carryforward as planned (these two dates are not stated in this raw document — see Source - Prop. 2019-20-53 Underskott Elnätsföretagens Intäktsramar 2012-2015 (2019) for the primary source).
• February 2020 — government proposes the promised follow-up law (särskilt investeringsutrymme); withdrawn in October 2020 after political disagreement.
• February 2021 — a revised lagrådsremiss, “Särskilt investeringsutrymme för elnätsföretag”, publishes a modified version — changed calculation of how the cap could be raised by an investment amount, plus a political requirement for special monitoring of DSO investments under the scheme.
• 1 June 2021 — Lag (2021:311) om särskilt investeringsutrymme för elnätsverksamhet enters into force. DSOs with unused 2012–2015 cap headroom can apply for a “särskilt investeringsutrymme” matching that headroom, usable to raise their 2020–2023 and/or 2024–2027 revenue cap by an investment-linked amount (capped so the increase per accounting unit never exceeds that unit’s actual investment in the period).
• 2022 — first round of the law’s special investment reporting completed; Ei compiles and delivers a follow-up report to the government (“Uppföljning av lagen om särskilt investeringsutrymme för elnätsverksamhet”, 2022-12-21).
• Early 2023 — the page flags a fresh uncertainty: the Tysklandsdomen (C-718/18) and its NRA-independence requirements put “certain legislation, such as the law on särskilt investeringsutrymme” under renewed scrutiny — via the SOU inquiry due to report October 2023 (i.e. Dir. 2022:20 / SOU 2023:64).

Relevance to the wiki

Bridges the legal history captured in Source - Prop. 2019-20-53 Underskott Elnätsföretagens Intäktsramar 2012-2015 (2019) (the block) to its resolution in Lag (2021:311) and — via its closing paragraph — directly anticipates the Tysklandsdomen-driven inquiry chain that produced Source - Särskilt Yttrande SOU 2023-64 Marling Liljegren (2023) and Source - Prop. 2025-26-26 Regelverket för Framtidens El- och Gasnät (2025), which ultimately decided not to repeal this law. See the Överrullning glossary entry for the consolidated mechanism description.