Electricity area 4 includes Skåne, Blekinge, Kronoberg, as well as parts of Kalmar County and Jönköpig County.
For a Skåne consumer, the average price is SEK 4.70 per kWh, including everything.
The corresponding consumer price in the previous record month of December 2021 was SEK 3.40.
In northern Norrland, the corresponding August price will be SEK 1:28/kWh.
But the coming months will be all the more expensive.
Price, and also consumption, are expected to rise when the cold comes.
This shows the pricing on the electricity market ahead of winter.
- Not much suggests that it will be cheaper, rather the opposite, says Björn Björnson, electricity price analyst at the electricity trading company Godel to TT.
Maintenance contributing to high prices
The factors are known at this point, transmission problems of electricity within Sweden, and sky-high gas prices that directly affect the price of electricity on the continent and infect the price picture in southern Sweden.
August was also particularly affected by various maintenance.
- Both maintenance of the electricity system and nuclear power, which contributed extra to electricity being locked in in the north, says Björnson.
Has 17 degrees in the apartment
Jimmy Larsson in Landskrona says that he does not have more than 17-18 degrees in his apartment and can have upwards of 50 candles lit, just in the living room.
- I don't need warmer.
I don't have the windows open too much so as not to let the heat out, he says.
The couple Bengtarne Nordahl and Berit Danielsson moved from a large house to an apartment a few years ago.
- It may have been our salvation, says Bengtarne Nordahl.