Roadmap to Membership of RICS - Pathways and Routes
Bottlenecks – where and why
1. Bottlenecks – where and why?
Challenges and opportunities facing the future Nordic electricity market
Jussi Jyrinsalo
2. Trends affecting the electricity market
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10
20
30
2011 2012 2013 2014
Wind power generation
in Nordic countries
[TWh]• Long-term main trends
– More and more subsidized wind power
– Decommissioning of conventional production
– No significant increase in electricity demand
– Import from Russia has collapsed
• Summer and autumn 2015
– Extraordinarily high precipitation
– Lack and sudden outages of transmission
capacity have strong market impacts 15
25
35
45
55
Yearly average electricity
price per country [€/MWh]
Sweden Norway
Denmark Finland
4. Bottom-upscenarios
Top-downscenarios
But what will the transmission needs be in 2030?
Visions are prepared and grid is planned
in a more centralized way, but power
generation planning is becoming more
and more decentralized!