"The entire system must be reviewed. You can't decide in such detail when to use your electricity," Fredrik Olovsson, energy policy spokesperson for S, said at a press conference.
All electricity companies must have introduced power tariffs - a special fee on the electricity bill based on how much electricity is consumed simultaneously at a given time - by 1 January 2027. High electricity usage for a short time, i.e., when many electrical appliances are running at the same time, will be more expensive.
The S initiative is presented in the Economic Affairs Committee.
"Bureaucratic nightmare"
The Center Party is also taking such an initiative on Thursday. Rickard Nordin, the party's energy policy spokesperson, writes in the proposal that the regulations have become a bureaucratic nightmare.
"The result is that ordinary families and small businesses are being financially punished without understanding how or why."
Minister of Energy and Enterprise Ebba Busch (KD) has said that the new fees may be stopped because they will have "unreasonable consequences".
Stop for new cables
S is also demanding that plans for an export cable to Denmark be paused. This is in light of an EU proposal that would mean that Swedish bottleneck fees would go to joint EU projects.
"It's about presenting how Sweden will negotiate on this issue going forward," Olovsson says, mentioning that the negotiations could take several years.
Bottleneck fees now amount to SEK 85 billion.
"We want the government, as part of that negotiation, to now put a stop to all new export cables and upgrading of the ones we have," he says.
