Definition
Elmarknadshubben is Sweden's answer to what ElhubNational hub for metering data and market processes in the Norwegian electricity market. is in Norway and DataHub is in Denmark: one national hub for supplier switching, metering dataData from electricity meters - the foundation for billing, balance settlement and market processes in the power market. exchange and settlementTurning metering data into money. Consumption and production per metering point become what each party owes or is owed. basis, rather than every party talking to every other party.
The difference is that Sweden does not have it yet. Svenska kraftnätSweden's system operator for the transmission network - equivalent to Statnett's role in Norway. received the assignment in 2015 and started the project in 2016, aiming for operation no earlier than the end of 2020. The date slipped several times, and on 22 September 2020 the Svenska kraftnät board decided to **pause** the work. The stated reason was that the legal basis was not in place. Around 140 million Swedish kronor had been invested by then.
That blockage was cleared on 18 June 2026, when Sweden adopted a new electricity market act (SFS 2026:1281). The supplier-centric market model, meaning the end customer having the electricity supplierCompany that sells electricity to end users - purchases power in the wholesale market and sells it to consumers. as their single point of contact, has been separated out as its own question that the government will return to once the hub is operational.