Not really, Swedish electricity is almost zero-carbon as it is. If anything keeping the electricity price elevated makes it harder to get electricity to replace oil in traffic.

Note also that Vattenfall uses part of the profits to expand buy buying coal and nuclear on the continent and stripmining pictoresque German villages for low grade coal. So while high prices could be part of a green strategy, it is not so here. It is just part of Vattenfall's strategy for empire building.

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