Svenskt Naringsliv Startprogram Flexibilitet (2026)

Svenskt Näringsliv (Swedish Enterprise, the main employers’/business confederation) — Startprogram för utvecklad flexibilitet i kraftsystemet (part of the Kraftsamling elförsörjning och tillstånd project; April 2026, 87pp; no individual author byline given in the document). An industry-side flexibility policy program — the wiki’s first source representing organized Swedish business’s own position, as distinct from agency (Ei/Energimyndigheten/Svk) or academic (FlexAbility) material already ingested.

Summary

Core thesis: industrial demand flexibility is routinely overestimated, and the cost of inflexibility routinely underestimated, in the Swedish flexibility policy debate. Explicitly names Energimyndigheten’s commonly-cited 5–15% industrial flexibility potential figure as theoretical, not necessarily practically realisable given order books, technical constraints, and economics. Continuous-process industry (paper, process manufacturing) — advanced, globally competitive, but not particularly flexible for technical and market reasons — should not be expected to act as the power system’s shock absorber.

Key positions:

• Swedish law and regulation are not designed to release the flexibility potential that does exist — a structural, not just technical, gap.
• Effektavgifter (capacity tariffs), while aimed at more efficient grid use, risk being too bluntly designed: customers who cannot technically be flexible must not be penalised with cost increases they cannot avoid. Price signals from the electricity market should reach customers undistorted by tariff design — directly relevant to the wiki’s existing effektavgift-design-deficiency material.
• Aggregators and flexibility markets represent real business opportunity, but BRP/fee friction risks pricing smaller flexibility providers out of participating.
• Recommends: a national flexibility strategy (government + Energimyndigheten) spanning all flexibility categories including beredskap (preparedness); a societal cost-benefit-analysis mandate for Svenska kraftnät; permitting reform (tillståndsreformer); and stronger TOTEX/efficiency incentives for network companies so grid regulation rewards smart utilisation, not just wires-and-poles investment.
• Explicitly cites Ei’s Art. 19f non-fossil flexibility target assignment (at the time of writing, still due 15 Sep 2026 — since delivered as Ei R2026:07, 0 MW for 2030 and 2035; see Flexibility Need Assessment) as context motivating the need for a coherent national strategy.
• Frames household flexibility (heating, EV charging control) as carrying real social/political cost — incentives, not just price signals, are needed to make household participation worthwhile.

Relevance to wiki topics