The expert: Therefore, gas price ceilings in the EU are the wrong way to go

The goal for the EU countries is to agree on a package of measures to deal with the energy crisis before the winter.

Among other things, the EU Commission is said to be considering a price cap for natural gas.

In that case, the ceiling would be set just above what the gas costs on the market in Asia, so that it will still be profitable for gas companies in Norway and other countries to sell to the EU, even if they do not get as much profit as today. 

Discussion is expected at the EU energy ministers' meeting in Brussels on Friday, but so far nothing is on paper.

Lina Bertling Tjernberg, professor of electrical power engineering at KTH in Stockholm, is concerned about the plans for a price cap because she believes it would disrupt the market.

Instead, she hopes for both short-term and long-term investments in renewable energy. 

- Because we have a shortage, the price goes up.

And therefore the absolute easiest way to bring the price down is to replace the gas with something else.

So if we were to start building, for example, more electricity production for renewable energy sources, that would help, and then it is problematic to remove incentives for the market to handle this, says Lina Bertling Tjernberg in Aktuellt.