How do we get electricity grids for the future? 5/6

The electrification of everything from Swedish industry to our transport sector is proceeding at a rapid pace and is a prerequisite for combating climate change. While the debate is raging about how to produce more and more electricity, the electricity grids that will deliver it are silent.

This is a major problem. The challenge of getting sufficient electricity grids in place in time is monumental and the costs that ultimately end up on electricity grid customers will be breathtaking. If we do not take the expansion of electricity grids seriously, there is a great risk that there will be no electricity in the outlet and that Sweden will miss the set climate goals, no matter how much wind or nuclear power we build.

The Environment and Public Health Institute (EPHI) has brought together some of the brightest minds to outline the challenges of the future electricity grid in a series of short reports.

In the first four reports, we focused on what is at stake, on the scale and nature of the challenge. In this, the fifth of six reports, Mats Nilsson looks for the solutions and what reforms and changes we need to put in place to ensure adequate electricity grids for the future.

Mats Nilsson is an associate professor and researcher with a focus on
environment and the economics of the electricity market.

HOW DO WE GET ELECTRICITY GRIDS FOR THE FUTURE PART 5/6

The role of government in the next big challenge for the electricity system - Mats Nilsson (pdf)