Sweden will not pay curtailment fees, such a thing does not exist. The reason is exactly what you quote at the end.

To state it again:

1. The intranational powercables means that German demand raises electricity prices in southern Sweden, which means businesses and consumers pay a premium vs what they would have paid without the cable

2. The extra charge is captured by network operators as what is called bottleneck fees and it's billions of euros per year, very large sums

3. The EC first wanted to confiscate these funds, which come from Swedish consumers and businesses. Now they want to rule about their use. Obviously this is completely unacceptable and nothing more than a bureaucratic powergrab, and no country would accept it.

Oh for Pete's sake, Sweden. Anything to avoid building more North-South connectivity.

Sweden is currently split into four pricing areas due to lack of grid capacity. All the cheap electricity is typically in the north (hydro) and then the price creeps up when you head south.

It's too bad the live electricity flow data is offline today, but there's a common pattern where SE1 pricing area in the north sends little under 2 GW to Finland (single zone) and most of it gets exported to SE3 around Stockholm.

Hmm, so basically Sweden has a surplus of goods (electricity), but the EU commissions is trying to pay for it with coupons that look like money but can't be used to buy everything, and now Sweden is saying "no, tak".

From an economical and political point of view this is actually interesting.

The free market in EU caused the high electricity prices in Germany to be partially transferred to Swedish consumers, despite Sweden being a net exporter.

From a political POV, Sweden couldn't really stop this (or the government didnt want to as they were making bilions on transfer fees). And this cable would make things significantly worse for the swedish consumers

Europe is scrambling to expand its electricity network, which doesn't have enough capacity. I don't know how badly Sweden and Denmark are affected, but in e.g. the Netherlands it inhibits the move away from fossil fuel for both homes and companies, and even disrupts building developments. So, anything that delays this for unexpected reasons is news. Is it interesting enough for HN? That's for you to decide.

Most of the US isn't online yet, so I would expect this to be mostly people from the East side of the pond voting on it. In any case, onto the merits of the article itself:

Renewable, net zero energy requires massively expanding the grid to regions that cannot supply enough from regions that can. I.e. hydro during Dunkelflaute.

Here, we find yet another type of stumbling block in setting up such a system.

Yeah, not super riveting stuff, I suppose...

> Or is this just a dog whistle for the HN crowd who like to complain about anything related to EU regulations?

Only topped by the number of people who love to cheer for US vs China while living in neither.

You're not missing anything. Its extremely uninteresting and nothing out of the ordinary in the early phases of large infrastructure projects. I guess EU/Denmark/power generation is a sure thing to reach the HN front page nowadays.

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It does require regulation if you, as the state, find it inconvenient where the proceeds of the arbitrage end up.

There is not EU bashing, there is EU political confrontation between rational and irrational countries. My electricity bill is more expensive because we provide energy to all our neighbors and over that the EC think the french state subsidize its national electric operator too much which slowdown the deployment of new nuclear reactors. That cannot be both, give us our money back by allowing advantageous tariffs in countries with a good energy policy or let us develop our production base without interfering.

Ask the Europeans, most of the US wasn't online when this hit the front page.

Because EU is a socialist and authoritarian project that will lead to war and disaster. Only the nationalist right has realized this, and the people are angry. It's boiling under the surface. The EU will either slowly sink down into irrelevance, or if noting is done, and the evil expands, it will lead to outright war.

I'm not sure this is EU bashing, it could equally be Sweden bashing.

Good one. If anything, this is a refreshing change from the daily "look how independent and free Europe is now that the commune of Nowhereaux's planning committee switched from Excel to LibreOffice" article

Resource is expensive in location A due to too low supply. Resource is cheap in location B due to higher supply. Moving resource from B to A is non-trivial.

Why is it so crazy that the facilitators of getting the resource moved get compensated?

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Spain tried to kick out all the bankers (in this case "the jews"). It was a financial disaster.

That you don't understand financial markets doesn't mean the realities of those marks won't hurt you really really badly if you try to adjust it with communist misapprehensions.