Prop. 2025-26-240 Nya lagar om elsystemet (2026)

Regeringens proposition 2025/26:240 — Nya lagar om elsystemet (New laws on the electricity system). Submitted to the Riksdag April 13, 2026; adopted by the Riksdag 15 June 2026 (Betänkande 2025/26:NU25, Näringsutskottet — the laws passed by acclamation). In force January 1, 2027 (last-resort supplier provisions: July 1, 2027). The most significant structural reform of Swedish electricity law since ellagen (1997:857) in 1997. Proposes a new Elmarknadslag and a new Lag om elektriska ledningar to replace ellagen.

Source scope note: the raw extraction used to verify this page (Raw/2025_26_nu25_...-extracted.txt) is the Näringsutskottet committee report (Betänkande 2025/26:NU25), not the proposition text itself — its Bilaga 2 (the actual statutory text, ~96 pages) extracted as blank page stubs. Claims below drawn from the committee report’s own debate/summary sections have been verified; the full “Energy sharing” section and most granular provisions in the “Key provisions” sections below could not be checked against this extraction and would need the proposition text proper.

Reference: Prop. 2025/26:240. In force: 1 January 2027 (general); 1 July 2027 (last-resort supplier). Directives transposed: 2024/1711 (Art. 15a energy sharing); 2019/944 full recast. Based on: SOU 2025:47 (Spänning i tillvaron — hur säkrar vi vår framtida elförsörjning?). Minister: Elisabet Lann (Klimat- och näringslivsdepartementet) — unverified against the committee report used for verification: the only minister its raw text names in this policy area is energi- och näringsminister Ebba Busch (KD), for an adjacent written-question answer, not necessarily this bill’s responsible minister (the proposition front matter itself is signed by Lotta Edholm and Elisabet Lann).

Overview of legislative structure

The ellagen is formally repealed. All other acts referencing ellagen are consequentially amended (17 separate acts, per the betänkande’s riksdagsbeslut list, items 4–20).

Key provisions

5. System responsibility (Systemansvar)

• Terminology change: this raw text (the betänkande) describes the shift only as duties passing to “den som innehar överföringssystemet” (whoever holds the transmission system) rather than an authority-function — the specific replacement term “systemansvarig för överföringssystem” is not itself verified against this document (it may be in the enacted Elmarknadslag text, not captured in this extraction) — responsibility shifts to being directly held by the transmission network owner (Svenska kraftnät)
• Removes the separate role of “systemansvarig myndighet” — Svk’s legal responsibility for the national electricity system is now expressed as a direct network operator obligation rather than a government-function delegation
• New: cooperation and information exchange requirements between system operators

6. Clearer roles on the balance market

Two new roles replace the existing “balansansvarig” role:

• Balansansvarig part (balance responsible party — BRP): holds economic responsibility for balancing injection and withdrawal at a connection point
• Leverantör av balanstjänster (balancing service provider — BSP): provides actual balancing services to the TSO

This dual-role structure aligns with the EU Electricity Balancing Regulation (EB GL) and with Svenska kraftnät‘s already-implemented NBM/BSP/BRP framework.

7. Delivery of electricity (Leverans av el)

• Anvisade elavtal (assigned electricity contracts) system abolished; replaced by:
• Sistahandsleverantör (last-resort supplier): obligated supplier that customers fall back to when they have no active supply contract. The EU Directive’s general principle requires selection to be fair, transparent, non-discriminatory — but Sweden’s actual implementation per this raw text is an automatic mechanism: the supplier with the largest market share in an area is designated, not competitively selected; the obligation excludes customers with expected annual consumption ≥100,000 kWh. In force July 1, 2027.
• Customers must have a supply contract (leveransavtal); the last-resort supplier is the safety net

8. Energy sharing (Energidelning) — Art. 15a of revised Directive 2019/944

Sweden’s transposition of the EU energy sharing right. Key design choices:

What is energy sharing? Consumption of electricity from renewable sources that:

• Is produced by a facility the customer owns, leases or rents (in whole or in part), located outside the property where the electricity is consumed; or
• Where rights to the electricity have been transferred from the producing party — provided that producing party is not primarily engaged in flexibility/energy efficiency services as a commercial activity

Only renewable electricity qualifies (wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, biomass, etc.).

Geographic scope: Energy sharing is permitted between an injection point and a withdrawal point within the same bidding zone (elområde). The government rejected proposals to restrict to concession area (Energiföretagen Sverige) or network area (Vattenfall), finding these would create unequal access without sufficient justification.

Large company limitation: Companies with >250 employees AND annual turnover >€50M or balance sheet >€43M may participate only if the total installed capacity of all facilities in the energy sharing arrangement does not exceed 6 MW. This aligns with EU Directive’s Art. 15a.5(b).

Supply contract requirement: Customers taking out shared electricity must have a supply contract with an electricity supplier for that connection point. Shared electricity is a supplement, not a replacement.

Invoice deduction: Shared electricity is deducted from the customer’s electricity invoice by the supplier. The supplier has a legal obligation to make this deduction.

No feed-in obligation: Energy sharing arrangements do not trigger mottagningsplikt (the general feed-in obligation for suppliers to accept electricity).

Organizers of energy sharing (organisatörer av energidelning): A new defined role. Organizers manage energy sharing arrangements on behalf of participants. They have defined obligations toward participants including: providing information, managing imbalance responsibility, and prohibition against treating participants worse than direct customers.

Energy sharing in the public sector: Special provisions enable public bodies to participate in energy sharing arrangements.

Proof of renewable origin: It is sufficient to show that the production facility converts renewable energy (solar, wind, etc.) to electricity — no obligation to annul guarantee-of-origin certificates for individual energy sharing transactions.

Relationship to Prop. 2025/26:16

The two propositions together complete Sweden’s transposition of Directive 2024/1711:

• Prop. 2025/26:16 (in force Jan 1, 2026): Art. 6a flexible connections, fixed-price contracts, consumer protection, demand flexibility information
• Prop. 2025/26:240 (in force Jan 1, 2027): Art. 15a energy sharing; full structural recast replacing ellagen

Parliamentary treatment (Betänkande 2025/26:NU25)

Näringsutskottet recommended the Riksdag adopt the government’s bill in full and reject all follow-up motions. The chamber concurred on 15 June 2026 (the two laws by acclamation; three reservations voted down). Sources: Betänkande 2025/26:NU25, the chamber debate (11 June 2026), and Motion 2025/26:4138 (C).

Three reservations (all rejected): (1) Flexibilitet och obalanser — V, C, MP; (2) Anvisade elavtal — S, V, MP (S wanted a procured last-resort model to push prices down); (3) Energigemenskaper — V, MP (wanted a statutory definition of energy community in Swedish law, plus tax/grid-fee incentives for virtual sharing — not granted).

Flexibility and imbalance debate (Motion 2025/26:4138, C — rejected)

The C-motion (Rickard Nordin m.fl.) made four flexibility demands, all voted down (Reservation 1). The utskott rejected each by pointing to ongoing work, but the exchange documents several facts material to the wiki:

• Standalone BSP role still delayed to 2028–2029. The balansansvarig role was split contractually into BRP + BSP on 1 May 2024; Ei found (mid-June 2024) the EB GL conditions should have been met by 17 May 2024 and were partly late, and ordered Svk to report status/plan by 12 Aug 2024. Svk’s October 2024 timeline: full BSP/BRP model with a standalone BSP role by 2028–2029, with possible temporary/earlier solutions. As of mid-May 2026 the government had taken no official steps to accelerate it (handled via routine agency dialogue only).
• The Svk demand-response/aggregator compensation model is shelved. Under regeringsuppdrag KN2023/03647 Svk proposed a model to compensate suppliers for costs caused when an aggregation-service provider activates demand response in a withdrawal point (slutrapport Sept 2024). In answer to written question 2025/26:611 (late March 2026), energy minister Ebba Busch stated the government has no plans to implement Svk’s proposed model or take it further — the contested model is not proceeding.
• Aggregator imbalance liability. C wants the flex provider liable only for imbalance in the promised flexibility — this specific point is confirmed in the betänkande’s own summary of the C yrkande. The additional “leveranspunkt/uttagspunkt vs. system as a whole, EU law requires” legal argument is not found in this raw text (the betänkande’s own “Motionen” summary doesn’t frame it this way) — it may appear in the full text of Motion 2025/26:4138 itself, not reproduced here; flag as unverified against this specific document. (The bill keeps the current rule that both BRP and BSP must undertake to pay Svk for imbalances arising from demand-response aggregation, so suppliers can be compensated.)
• Obalanskostnader — high and volatile. Svk introduced a new, more digitalised balancing-market solution in March 2025; some producers (esp. small wind) have curtailed to avoid extreme imbalance costs. In March 2026 Svk concluded the Swedish imbalance pricing should be updated for fairer cost allocation and fewer extreme prices; this needs Ei approval (up to 6 months), so a changed imbalance price can take effect earliest March 2027.
• Non-fossil flexibility national target. The amended EU Electricity Regulation requires each member state to set an indicative national target for icke-fossil flexibilitet (flexibility without fossil fuels — mainly storage + demand response). Ei is tasked to propose Sweden’s target and how demand response, storage and generation contribute, due to the government by 15 September 2026.

Relevance to existing wiki content

• Elmarknadslagen — the curated page on the resulting Act (SFS 2026:1281) + companion lag om elektriska ledningar (SFS 2026:1283); this bill is its primary source
• Electricity Market Design Reform 2024 — closes Art. 15a energy sharing gap; updates Swedish transposition table
• Energy Communities — energy sharing rules create the legal framework for community-level renewable sharing arrangements
• Demand Response — energy sharing is a new form of explicit demand-side participation
• Balancing Markets — formal codification of BSP/BRP roles in Swedish primary law
• Svenska kraftnät — systemansvar now explicitly held by transmission network owner, not delegated to authority function
• Aggregation — BSP role in new Elmarknadslag codifies aggregator market access
• Flexibility Market — energy sharing creates a new category of distributed prosumer participation distinct from flexibility markets