Today, solar energy accounts for around 1% of Swedish electricity. This may be considered a small share, especially when compared to Germany, where solar energy accounts for 10%. However, Anna Werner, CEO of Swedish Solar Energy, believes that Sweden will be able to achieve the same percentage of solar energy within the next five years.
In an interview with the former Nyhetsmorgon profile Jesper Börjesson, Anna Werner believes that Swedish laws and regulations are more for the old power types and less adapted to sustainable energy.
- We are not the first on this journey, it is political control and will. There is a need for a strong belief in this type of power and there is also a need for a lot of regulatory changes, i.e. laws and regulations," she says in the interview.
"For every carrot you eat from your own farm, you should pay taxes"
Today, companies need to pay energy taxes on larger plants. This is something that needs to be scrapped in order to have a more positive development in sustainable energy in the electricity network, says Anna Werner.
"If it is a large plant, you have to pay energy tax on the electricity that you yourself produce and use. It's not a problem as long as you don't use your own electricity, which you can't do with the other power strokes. But when solar power comes in, when you can actually use a large part of the electricity yourself, then it becomes very absurd to have such a tax. It's like you're growing carrots and for every carrot you eat from your own farm you have to pay taxes.
