Sweden: the live status of the Swedish electricity grid
Sweden's grid, operated by Svenska kraftnät, runs on one of the lowest-carbon generation mixes of any country worldwide, dominated by hydro and nuclear with a fast-growing wind fleet. Sweden is split into four price zones (SE1-SE4); this page tracks SE3, the southern-central zone around Stockholm. It is not physically interconnected to Great Britain, so it is included here for comparison rather than as one of GB's own interconnector partners. Demand, generation, day-ahead price and generation mix below are live from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, covering the SE3 zone specifically.
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- Demand
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Generation mix right now
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Sweden's hydro-and-nuclear-dominated mix makes it one of the lowest-carbon large grids anywhere - a useful comparison point against GB's more fossil-exposed mix.
Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.
Replay today
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Generation mix over the last 24 hours
Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
History
Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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Cross-border flows
Physical flows across each border today, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform. Borders are fetched one at a time, so each one updates every few hours.
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Long-term history
Electricity generated each year, by source, from each country's official yearly statistics.
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About the Swedish grid
Svenska kraftnät operates Sweden's transmission grid, part of the Nordic synchronous area (shared with Norway, Finland and eastern Denmark) rather than Continental Europe. Sweden is split into four bidding zones, SE1 (north) through SE4 (south); this page tracks SE3, the zone covering Stockholm and central Sweden. The national mix is dominated by hydro and nuclear, with a rapidly expanding wind fleet, giving Sweden one of the lowest-carbon electricity systems of any country.
Sweden has no direct electrical interconnector with Great Britain, trading instead with Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Poland and the Baltic states. It is included on this site purely for cross-country comparison via the Comparisons page.
Records & context
- Fossil-free electricityRecord 99% in 2024
- Hydro + nuclear + wind combined90.6% of generation in 2024 (national)
- Wind capacity~10GW (2020) to ~17GW (2024) - overtook installed hydro capacity for the first time in 2024
- Nuclear fleet6 reactors (~7GW) at Forsmark, Oskarshamn and Ringhals
- Bidding zonesFour zones, SE1 (north) to SE4 (south), since 1 November 2011 - this page tracks SE3
Approximate national wind power capacity by year - not SE3-specific, as Sweden's wind buildout has been concentrated more in the northern zones.
Sources: Energiföretagen (fossil-free share), Energimyndigheten (2024 statistics), Energiföretagen (wind capacity), World Nuclear Association, Energimarknadsinspektionen (bidding zones). Last checked: 2 October 2026.
Data sources for Sweden
The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover Sweden, so this page draws on a different source instead:
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected transmission system operator to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Sweden's own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.
Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow, so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.