Sollefteå municipality accounts for approximately seven percent of Sweden's total electricity production.
There are 26 hydropower plants and over a hundred wind turbines here.
One of the power plants is located in Sollefteåforsen and is owned by the municipality.
A potential profit machine but the owner doesn't really want to see it that way.
- What is produced here must also be allowed to stay here, says Johan Andersson (C), who is a municipal councilor and a big winner in the election in the previously red-hot Ådalen.
Better a low electricity price than a jingle in the municipal coffers
A higher electricity price would bring more bang for the buck in the municipal coffers from the power plant, but Johan Andersson (C) believes that it is more important to maintain a lower electricity price in Norrland.
He sees it as a matter of justice.
- We have sacrificed our fairies so of course there is a reasonableness in that, he says and also believes that it is in many ways more expensive to live in Norrland and that it requires some compensation.
Hear municipal councilor Johan Andersson (C) develop his view on electricity prices in the video.