Kristersson's critique: Lack of electricity when shutting down nuclear power

Minister of Energy Anders Ygeman (S) and the Moderates' party leader Ulf Kristersson visited P1-morgon to talk about a future sustainable energy policy.

The moderates are dissatisfied with the current situation and criticize the government for not wanting to change course.

- The consequences will be that you get an obvious shortage of electricity when you have shut down nuclear power.

We have major problems with companies that cannot expand or invest, we have prices that have doubled on average and we are forced to import electricity from less clean electricity-producing countries, says Kristersson in P1-morgon.

He believes that the lack of electricity in the long run risks leading to Sweden not being able to switch to extensive electrification where cars and industries must use clean electricity.

Investing in the transfer

Minister of Energy Anders Ygeman does not agree.

He emphasizes that Sweden has the largest electricity surplus ever and that we are now involved and contributing to meeting the climate challenge both here and in other countries.

At the same time, there is a problem in the infrastructure in how electricity is to be distributed across the country.

- It is true that we need to increase transmission capacity, therefore we triple the investments in them, there are many billions that will be spent on electricity being carried to the areas where it is needed, says Ygeman in the program.

He criticizes the Moderates for leaving the cross-bloc energy agreement in 2019, where the parties discussed, among other things, how electricity consumption will increase in the future.

Criticism that Ringhals 1 closed

Kristersson believes that it is good that they have invested more in green energy in the form of wind power, but he believes that this will not be able to stand for the stability of the Swedish electricity supply.

- There must be a basic base force that we can trust at all times, which the government has deliberately removed, most recently with the closure of Ringhals 1, which was a very bad decision, he says.

Ygeman rejects criticism that Sweden has used more fossil energy since Ringhals reactors have been taken out of service.

- We are net exporters of electricity, which means that we are involved in pushing away fossil power in other countries, he says.