A new report that SVT has read shows that 78 percent of all applications for new wind power on land are stopped by municipal vetoes.
A figure that worries Minister of the Environment Annika Strandhäll.
She says that one of her highest priorities is to ensure that Sweden will be able to supply the green industrial revolution with electricity.
The government has now decided to quickly investigate a financial compensation to municipalities that say yes to new wind power.
-There should be money for the municipalities that build wind turbines and I will appoint a rapid investigation into proposals for financial incentives for municipalities and local communities, says Strandhäll to SVT Nyheter.
"Hope it makes it easier"
Several forecasts show that there is a need to double Sweden's electricity production over the next 20 years.
According to Svenska Kraftnät's scenarios, many times more wind power is needed if we are to cope with the transition, regardless of what happens to nuclear power.
The industries in the north have clearly stated that it is wind power you want - it is today the cheapest green electricity, and the one that is the fastest to expand.
If new wind power is too often stopped by municipalities, or the defense, both industrial investments and climate goals are therefore threatened.
In Norway and Finland, which are investing in rapidly expanding wind power, there is financial compensation for the municipalities.
The industry organization Swedish Wind Energy has advocated that the property tax levied on wind power and other energy production should go to the municipality.
The Minister for the Environment does not reject that idea, but does not want to say which compensation she thinks is most appropriate.
-The investigation may look at the details.
But it is about financial compensation to municipalities and I hope that together with our previous proposal for faster processes for wind power establishments will be easier, says Strandhäll to SVT News.