Blowin‘ in the Wind: Wie nordische Länder Strom kostenlos machten | Atmosphäre
Blowin’ in the Wind: How Nordic Countries Made Electricity Free
Blowin‘ in the Wind: Wie nordische Länder Strom kostenlos machten | Atmosphäre
Blowin’ in the Wind: How Nordic Countries Made Electricity Free
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> In some parts of the region, power has become so abundant that generators effectively have to pay to offload it. Electricity prices in northern Sweden over the course of last year slipped into negative territory for a total of 679 hours—equivalent to nearly a full month—because the grid was flooded with excess energy. It’s no surprise, then, that Sweden recorded the most negative-price hours in Europe in 2025, according to Montel EnAppSys data, overtaking Finland, which had the most negative-price hours the previous two years. Scandinavian neighbor Denmark also regularly racks up stretches of low- to no-cost days, thanks to its abundant clean energy.
This is one of the few circumstances where direct carbon capture or „green“ hydrogen production makes sense.
energy should never actually be free. we probably need to move to something like a fixed price subscription model. entirely predictable, effectively a loan repayment on the cost of building renewables. for example, a housing development connected to a wind farm, adds the cost of the wind farm to the house price. this has already been done, but i don’t know enough about how the grid works to understand how we can transition to this pricing model across the entire grid
edit: my point being that those that build renewables must be compensated somehow. but variable pricing on renewables makes no sense. the entire cost is in the building, and partly maintenance which is entirely fixed.
The only thing missing in the Nordics is a way to store huge amounts of energy for later. I pay by market price. Sometimes it’s negative, sometimes it costs 1€/kWh. This kind of variance in any other consumer product would be insane
meanwhile americans pay extra for the privilege of being on hold with their power company.
Electricity free? The electricity price hasn’t been higher than it is right now here in the Nordic. And several windfarms have gone bankrupt and only been kept alive via subsidies and similar. Thank shutting down nuclear reactors here and in germany etc. for that.
As a nordic, unfortunately prices are super expensive in winter. The low prices are only in summer. Not complaining, but just want to point that out.
today i will decide to decrease my mortgage because demand for housing has decreased