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Sweden to cut taxes on nuclear power generation
Reuters ^ | 10 June 2016

Posted on 06/13/2016 2:08:58 PM PDT by Lorianne

Sweden said on Friday it would phase out some taxes on nuclear power and build new reactors to replace aging plants and secure energy supplies for decades to come.

Nuclear power providers in Sweden have said they would be forced to shut the country's loss-making nuclear reactors unless a tax on nuclear capacity is abolished, risking a spike in electricity prices and energy shortages for industry.

"The aim is ... to make sure we can always guarantee electricity at competitive prices, in a stable and sustainable way, both in the short and long term," Energy Minister Ibrahim Baylan told reporters.

The tax, which brought in about 4 billion Swedish crowns ($488 million) in 2015, will be phased out over two years starting from 2017, but households will see their energy bills rise as Baylan said the government would increase taxes on energy users to make up for the nuclear tax. Heavy industry, however, would be excluded from the tax rise.

In a broad deal agreed with the main opposition parties, the government also said it would allow up to 10 new reactors to be built as the country closes its old plants, built in the 1970s and 80s.

The tax on capacity - which was increased last year - has hurt profitability at plants already under pressure from low market prices and the need for expensive upgrades to meet tougher safety standards since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall and Germany's E.ON have said they will shut four of Sweden's 10 nuclear reactors earlier than previously planned. One of them was shut last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: energy; europeanunion; fission; germany; greeniacs; greenparty; ibrahimbaylan; malmo; muslimbrotherhood; nato; nuclearenergy; nuclearpower; sweden; vattenfall

1 posted on 06/13/2016 2:08:58 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Ibrahim?


2 posted on 06/13/2016 2:10:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhahahaaa.....)
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To: Lorianne

Sanity in Sweden?

What’s the explanation?


3 posted on 06/13/2016 2:34:11 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: samtheman

Perhaps some one noticed that the days aren’t long enough in the winter to provide solar power?


4 posted on 06/13/2016 4:44:10 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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