Promemoria Förbättrad utformning av EUs elmarknad (2025)

Promemoria — Förbättrad utformning av EU:s elmarknad. Klimat- och näringslivsdepartementet (KN2025/00428), February 2025. Ministry consultation draft that preceded Prop. 2025/26:16 (submitted September 2025, in force January 1, 2026). Proposes amendments to ellagen (1997:857) to transpose Directive 2024/1711 (EMD Reform) and parts of the revised RED II (Directive 2023/2413).

Document

• Formal reference: KN2025/00428
• Minister: Ebba Busch
• Proposed in-force date: November 1, 2025 (shifted to January 1, 2026 in final Prop.)
• Enacted as: Prop. 2025/26:16

Relationship to Prop. 2025/26:16

The promemoria is the pre-legislative consultation draft; the Prop. is the enacted version. The substance is substantially identical, with minor adjustments:

• In-force date: Promemoria proposed November 1, 2025; Prop. enacted January 1, 2026 (Sweden missed the January 17, 2025 EU transposition deadline)
• Coverage: Promemoria and Prop. both cover Art. 6a, Art. 11 fixed-price contracts, Art. 18a supplier risk management, Art. 27a last-resort supplier, Art. 28a.2 disconnection protection, Art. 31.3 connection capacity transparency, Art. 20a RED II demand flexibility information, Art. 66a price crisis mechanism
• Legal reasoning: Promemoria has more detailed EU law analysis and the constitutional law reasoning for each regulatory delegation

The existing source page for Prop. 2025/26:16 covers most substantive provisions. This page documents the precursor document and captures provisions that were underemphasised in the Prop. source page — notably Art. 31.3 connection capacity transparency.

Key provisions (focus on items supplementing the Prop. source page)

Art. 31.3 — DSO connection capacity transparency (section 10)

Directive 2024/1711 introduces a new Art. 31.3 in the revised EMD requiring DSOs to:

Quarterly public capacity disclosure (Art. 31.3 first paragraph)

• Publicly disclose available capacity for new connections within their service area
• Disclosure must have high spatial resolution (hög rumslig detaljnivå)
• Must include: capacity currently subject to pending connection applications; and availability of flexible connections in congested areas
• Updated at minimum quarterly
• Must also disclose the criteria used to calculate available capacity for new connections

Connection application transparency (Art. 31.3 second paragraph)

• DSOs must provide connection applicants with clear, transparent processing information within 3 months of application receipt
• If not finally approved or rejected, updates must follow at minimum quarterly until final decision

Digital connection applications (Art. 31.3a)

• DSOs must enable connection applications to be submitted exclusively in digital/electronic form

Exception (Art. 31.3b)

• Member states may exempt DSOs that are part of integrated electricity enterprises serving fewer than 100,000 connected customers (or serving small individual systems); a lower threshold is also permitted
• Sweden has used similar thresholds elsewhere in ellagen (e.g., 3 kap. 21 § at 100,000 users)
• The promemoria proposes that the government or designated authority (Ei) may issue regulations on exemptions

Swedish implementation: The promemoria amends 4 kap. 12 § ellagen, replacing its existing substantive text (principles for cost allocation) with a delegation (bemyndigande) authorising the government or Ei to issue implementing regulations via förordning/föreskrifter for the capacity disclosure requirement — the disclosure obligation itself is not set out directly in ellagen. Regulations under this delegation had not been issued as of the Prop.’s September 2025 submission date.

This Art. 31.3 obligation directly complements the faktisk belastning doctrine in Swedish law: DSOs are required to use actual load data to calculate available capacity (Ei R2024:14) and are now also required to publish that capacity publicly, with high spatial resolution, quarterly — including where flexible connections are available.

Art. 6a — Effektregleringssystem: legal basis detail

The promemoria clarifies the statutory delegation chain:

1. Framework obligation (Art. 6a.1–6a.2 first paragraph): Ei (the supervisory authority) must develop a framework enabling TSOs and DSOs to offer flexible connection agreements in areas with limited or no capacity for conventional connections. This is a regulatory/administrative function — no change to primary legislation needed; it can be handled through the government instrument (8 kap. 7 § RF).

2. Certification requirement (Art. 6a.2 second paragraph): The directive requires that any system user connecting under a flexible connection agreement must install an effektregleringssystem certified by an authorised certifier. This certification mandate requires a new statutory authorisation (bemyndigande) in ellagen.

3. Missing directive definition: The directive gives no definition of effektregleringssystem and no technical requirements it must meet. Ei will set technical requirements and certification criteria through myndighetsföreskrifter under the new bemyndigande. The promemoria explicitly states: “Elmarknadsdirektivet innehåller inte någon definition av effektregleringssystem eller krav som ett sådant system ska uppfylla.”

The new ellagen provision is 4 kap. 4a § (introduced by Prop. 2025/26:16). (3 kap. 48a § is a separate, unrelated delegation — see Art. 20a below.)

Art. 20a RED II — Demand-side flexibility information (section 12)

TSOs and, where technically feasible, DSOs must make available digitally (in an interoperable format):

• Share of renewable electricity in delivered power, and associated GHG emissions (by bidding zone, with forecasts if available)
• Renewable electricity produced and fed into the grid by egenanvändare (prosumers) and gemenskaper för förnybar energi (renewable energy communities)
• Aggregated, anonymised data on the potential for demand-side flexibility (potential för efterfrågeflexibilitet)

The promemoria inserts a new 3 kap. 48a § ellagen — a delegation (bemyndigande) authorising the government or Ei to issue föreskrifter, rather than setting the disclosure requirements directly in the statute. Correction (2026-09-22, against the now-ingested Source - Ei R2025-08 Klimatprestanda och Flexibla Resurser (2025)): Ei’s technical-infeasibility finding applies only to the self-consumer/energy-community renewable-injection data listed above — not to the demand-flexibility-potential data. Ei explicitly found the flexibility-potential publication requirement technically feasible (DSOs can compile it from installation records they already hold, e.g. reported battery-storage capacity) and proposes an active requirement for it (new 26b § in förordning 2022:585 om elnätsverksamhet). Only the self-consumer/community renewable-injection piece is deferred, pending a future national data hub or metering upgrade.

Relevance to wiki topics

Data gaps

• Whether Ei’s föreskrifter work specifying which installation types qualify for the DSO flexibility-potential-publication requirement has progressed since March 2025 (per Source - Ei R2025-08 Klimatprestanda och Flexibla Resurser (2025))