Liberal party leader Nyamko Sabuni and Minister of Energy Khashayar Farmanbar (S) met for a debate in Aktuellt about what can be done to counteract the high electricity prices in the short term.
The Liberals are one of the parties that advocate lowering the tax on electricity because they believe that prices are now beginning to become unsustainable for households and companies.
- The fastest way to reduce electricity costs is to reduce the tax because the tax is a large part of the cost you pay for your electricity, says Sabuni in Aktuellt.
Risks being hit in the air
According to Khashayar Farmanbar, a reduced tax on electricity risks being a blow to the air.
In that case, the state's coffers are drained of money that could go to strengthening households' finances with, for example, targeted tax cuts to those who are in the worst financial situation.
He has called in representatives of the responsible authority Svenska kraftnät, which according to Farmanbar has presented a number of measures for how to streamline the transmission of electricity within the country to bring down prices.
The Liberals' Nyamko Sabuni believes that the high electricity prices are largely due to the fact that nuclear power has been shut down.
- We are shutting down well-functioning nuclear power and believe that we should only be able to run on renewable energy.
It is not like that.
Renewable is good, it is a good complement, but we need nuclear power for the transition, she says.
- I'm not your opponent, it's the reality, Khashayar Farmanbar answers and makes a comparison with Finland, which has invested in new nuclear power.
"Gets worse without nuclear power"
The Minister of Energy believes that Swedish wind power supplies electricity for 30 öre per kilowatt hour, while the Finnish reactor will have a price of well over a krona.
- The answer that the government must give is: can households and companies trust that they have electricity all year round at reasonable prices.
We now see that this is not the case and it will get worse and worse if you want to shut down the remaining nuclear power plants, says Nyamko Sabuni.