Sweden Starts Oil-Fired Plant to Help Poland Avoid Outages
- Reserve power plant in south Sweden started on Monday morning
- Power Prices in Poland, Nordic region surge above 200 euros
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Sweden started an oil-fired reserve power plant after Poland said it needed help from its neighbors to meet soaring electricity demand as freezing weather spread across Europe.
The plant in Karlshamn, which is part of a winter reserve, was ordered to start after Poland asked for assistance to cover a deficit of as much as 1,700 megawatts for some hours on Monday, the Swedish grid manager said in a statement. The two countries are connected by a 600-megawatt direct link.