After the fall and winter's rampant electricity prices, the government electricity subsidy to households in southern and central Sweden will now begin to be paid from February 20. 

A survey sent to all municipal and large private landlords in southern and central Sweden shows that 46 percent of the companies plan to keep the electricity subsidy themselves instead of passing it on to their tenants, reports the newspaper Hem och hyra.

Money for maintenance

But this does not apply to many IMD customers, i.e. the tenants who buy electricity from their landlord or have the electricity cost built into the rent. 

- Our IMD customers have had a relatively low, fixed electricity price.

That's one reason why we keep the support - for the work we do to be able to have a low price.

Then the money will mainly be used for maintenance, says Per Stephani, CEO of municipal landlord Kalmarhem, to the newspaper.

Received the electricity subsidy on invoice

But some landlords reason differently, such as the company Wallenstam, which has around 6,000 IMD tenants.

- They received the electricity subsidy on February's invoice.

We were keen that it would get out to the tenants quickly, so we chose that solution, says Elisabeth Vansvik, communications director at Wallenstam.

See Energiforsk CEO Markus Wråke in the clip when he answers questions about future electricity prices.

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Markus Wråke, CEO of Energiforsk, answers three questions about future electricity prices.