Ödesstund for the Swedish nuclear power is approaching – Göteborgs-Posten

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In the spring, a decision has come. Otherwise, all Swedish nuclear plant shut down in 2020.

The entire industry is being squeezed by low electricity prices. But nuclear power is greater problems than that. From 2020 comes the new safety requirements introduced after the Fukushima disaster, and to live up to them requires large investments.

MP Lars Hjälmered (M) sits on the Energy Commission which has the mandate to investigate the country’s future energy supply will arranged. He says the situation is extremely serious and that a decision is required within two months.

– A political responsibility must now. We must give an answer before the month of May, he said.

Nuclear power is in the day for about a third of Swedish electricity production. Not least for the heavy industry, it is important that energy production is secured and that you know the rules of play.

Therefore, a long-term energy supply.

– About a third of the electricity production would disappear within four to five years we would be in a tricky seat. It would be unfortunate to put Sweden in such a situation to 2020, says Lars Hjälmered.

A couple weeks ago, said Vattenfall’s President in an interview with SVT that the firm is not the investment required to meet the new security requirements on their own. The low electricity prices means that there is not much to play with, and the solution he sees is that the nuclear tax is abolished. Otherwise, Vattenfall have no choice but to close down their nuclear power plants.

– You can have different opinions, but no matter what you think we need to come up with an answer, says Lars Hjälmered.

the Moderates have already in the budget motion proposed that the nuclear tax will be lowered, but Lars Hjälmered tells GP that you are willing to go further than that.

– We are ready to remove it completely if we find a responsible financing. But we must look at jointly between the different parties and look for solutions in the energy sector. For there is no direct scope for reform to take off.

Even Energy Minister Ibrahim Baylan (S) is now opening to look at nuclear power tax. After Thursday’s meeting with the Energy Commission, he told TT that he is prepared to discuss the issue, but in that case “in a whole”.

– My ambition is that the energy sector should be told how the Commission sees this latest in May, he said.