Nuclear power plants burn at full speed – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Nuclear power plants burn at full speed – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

increasing production because they are under pressure from low electricity prices are easy to understand, says energy expert Tomas Kåberger.

Vattenfall’s nuclear power plants, Forsmark and Ringhals fires at full speed. Forsmark sets new production record while Ringhals and Forsmark together has the fourth highest production level since its inception almost 40 years ago. In total, production in all seven reactors for about a third of Sweden’s electricity.

After several years of low production, it is natural that nuclear power producers make an effort to increase production, says Kåberger.

– Ringhals and Forsmark have succeeded better than Oskarshamn, which is the nuclear power plant in Sweden that has had the greatest technological and economic problems in recent years, and where the owners have paid considerably more for the electricity they have received than the price of electricity has been at the North Pool .

The problems in Oskarshamn is likely to contribute to the total production of Swedish nuclear power will be less than last year.

At the beginning of next year invites Energy Minister Ibrahim Baylan (S) In all parliamentary parties to an energy commission. The background is the agreement between S and MP that nuclear power is replaced by renewable energy.

According Kåberger it’s good to push the nuclear installations in the most efficient manner possible without it being at the expense of safety.

– Looking at developments globally we see that the cost of solar and wind power has decreased dramatically. Should we build new electricity so is wind power on land they clearly cheapest.

According Kåberger installed it today about ten times as much solelproduktions- and wind power generation capacity that building new nuclear power stations.

Meanwhile, Vattenfall conducts the largest modernization program in the Swedish nuclear power ever and has invested over 21 billion in the last ten years.

– I think one of the Vattenfall plagued by that they made the investment decisions with the expectation that the electricity price would be considerably higher than it really has become. At the same time, the projects have become more expensive and take more time than expected.