Hydropower's role and conditions in the energy system
What's at stake: Hydropower accounts for a large share of Sweden's electricity production, and its ability to be regulated up and down is central to managing a power system with more weather-dependent wind and solar power. How the environmental conditions and regulatory framework are shaped affects both willingness to invest in hydropower and the environment in the affected waterways.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether the Riksdag should issue a directive calling for a national strategy to maximise hydropower capacity and reformed water legislation that eases capacity increases, or whether the ongoing review of hydropower's environmental conditions should be allowed to continue without such a directive.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee notes that the process of reviewing hydropower's environmental conditions is already under way in a manner that takes the consequences for the power system into account, including through analyses from the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and the Swedish Energy Agency, as well as regulatory amendments. The committee therefore sees no reason for the Riksdag to issue further directives on the matter and rejects the motions.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 13 (C)
The reservation (C) calls for a national strategy to make full use of hydropower's maximum capacity and to increase power output and storage capacity, along with further proposals in the work to reform water legislation that highlight hydropower's contribution, reduce red tape, respect property rights, and ensure proportionate environmental measures at reasonable cost. The reasoning is that no major investment has been made in hydropower in over 30 years despite substantial potential for capacity increases, while the ongoing review of environmental conditions creates uncertainty that holds back development.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
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S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
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YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 13 by C.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
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Abstain 0/0/19/3
S
–
Abstain 2/0/91/13
MP
–
Abstain 2/0/13/3
Cown reservation
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No 0/21/0/3
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SD
–
Yes 61/0/0/10
Broke with the party line
SAnnika Strandhäll(S, Stockholms kommun)
Yes — party line: Abstain
SMagdalena Andersson(S, Stockholms län)
Yes — party line: Abstain
MPJanine Alm Ericson(MP, Västra Götalands läns västra)
Yes — party line: Abstain
MPRebecka Le Moine(MP, Östergötlands län)
Yes — party line: Abstain
MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2025/26:64 by Josef Fransson (SD),
2025/26:2302 by Lars Isacsson (S),
2025/26:2975 by Dan Hovskär (KD),
2025/26:3582 by Rickard Nordin et al. (C) claims 121 and 122 and
2025/26:3594 by Fredrik Olovsson et al. (S) claim 12.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:64 av Josef Fransson (SD),
2025/26:2302 av Lars Isacsson (S),
2025/26:2975 av Dan Hovskär (KD),
2025/26:3582 av Rickard Nordin m.fl. (C) yrkandena 121 och 122 samt
2025/26:3594 av Fredrik Olovsson m.fl. (S) yrkande 12.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected 197 proposals in motions on energy policy. The proposals were submitted during the general motion period 2025.
Among other things, the proposals concern the direction of energy policy, nuclear power, wind power, biofuels and biofuel, energy efficiency, energy gases, and heat and combined heat and power.
The Riksdag refers, among other things, to the pursued policy and ongoing work.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to set planning targets for fossil-free electricity production by 2030 and 2035 and strengthen the county administrative boards' instructions to promote fossil-free power production. (C) — Reservation 13
Motion 2025/26:1050 — Ett hållbart och tillgängligt transportsystem för framtiden av Jamal El-Haj (-)
Motion 2025/26:1145 — Förbättrad möjlighet till mer biogasproduktion i Sverige av Anders Karlsson (C)
Motion 2025/26:1179 — Förnybar energiomställning av Martina Johansson och Mikael Larsson (båda C)
Motion 2025/26:1314 — Biogasens potential för cirkulär ekonomi och grön omställning av Per-Arne Håkansson m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1437 — En robust, kostnadseffektiv och rättvis energiförsörjning av Markus Selin m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1442 — För en stark industri och trygg elförsörjning - elektrifiering och fossilfri energi för klimatmålen av Patrik Lundqvist m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1447 — Bättre förutsättningar för en modern industri av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1481 — Långsiktigt hållbar energiförsörjning i hela landet av Hanna Westerén (S)
Motion 2025/26:2302 — En balanserad och hållbar korttidsreglering av vattenkraft med Dalälven som exempel av Lars Isacsson (S)
Motion 2025/26:2368 — Säkerhetspolitik för en fredligare värld av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:2669 — Robust elsystem för Sveriges välstånd av Lars Engsund (M)
Motion 2025/26:2681 — Möjlighet till snabbare och effektivare elektrifiering - statlig kontroll, elnätsutbyggnad och vätgasinfrastruktur av Patrik Lundqvist m.fl. (S)