The electricity shortage in Sweden is alarming and has caused prices to skyrocket. This has required drastic measures, one of which is to start up the more than 50-year-old oil-fired reserve power plant Karlshamnsverket. It has been fired so much that their own CEO Henrik Svensson has drawn attention to the serious situation for the electricity supply, something we have also written about previously (read more here).
Now production has continued to increase, despite the climate-negative consequences. This has now meant that the power plant needs employees to cover the need in the future.
– As the deficit in electricity production in southern Sweden has become increasingly large, Karlshamnsverket plays an increasingly important role in ensuring electricity production. We have increased production sharply this year. We are now planning to strengthen the organization, which today has just over 50 employees. The goal is to recruit at least ten people to be able to scale up further, says Henrik Svensson to DI.
For Karlhamnsverket to be available to the electricity market outside the winter months, very high electricity prices are required for it to be profitable, the newspaper writes. When production was underway last week, they burned about 70,000 liters of oil per hour - but they are preparing to burn even more.
– We have already produced more than we did during the whole of last year. Production is still modest in relation to our total capacity, and we are now preparing to be able to increase further if this is necessary to secure the electricity supply and meet the growing risk of acute power shortages that Svenska kraftnät has warned of.
