Which in turn would require enormous amounts of excess generation capacity and transmission lines.

Beyond a certain point it’s simply more efficient to install dispatchable electricity generation.

Oh and as for your last statement it is simply incorrect. Nuclear power plants are the single most reliable electricity producer. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliable-energy-source-and-its-not-even-close

More wind capacity wouldn’t solve these issues. They arise specifically when it is cold, dark and windless across Europe, due to a lack of dispatchable electricity production in Germany. Germany instead imports electricity from its neighbors, and Sweden (due to EU regulations) has to export. This in turn drives prices through the roof for Swedish consumers, despite a de facto electricity surplus.

There are already planned industrial projects in Northern Sweden that’ll wipe out the surplus. Hence transition lines won’t solve the problem, and neither will variable renewable sources (solar, wind) since the problems arise when it’s cold, dark and windless.

Fact is that Sweden carries its weight and more when it comes to clean electricity generation. We are one of the largest per-capita exporters of electricity, despite the disastrous energy policies of the former left-wing government. Germany has to get their shit together and stop bullying the smaller european economies with their incompetence.

Sweden, unlike Germany, is highly electrified, and vulnerable people are literally being run out of their homes by these power prices.

Yet the prior means that France is one of the least carbon intensive economies in the world. Each German unit of GDP has twice the CO2 emissions compared to France.

Expanding the transit lines at this point would only lead to German industry purchasing even more Swedish electricity, driving up the prices in the north of Sweden as well and killing the rest of the industrial base. The German effect deficit is larger than the entirety of the dispatchable electricity capacity in Sweden. In some 5-10 years, the northern surplus there will be used up anyway due to the electrification of the Swedish steel industry.

The ugly truth is that this situation will only be resolved when Germany take responsibility for their own grid, or the transmission lines get cut. The Swedish economy is highly electrified (~70% of energy consumed) and low carbon (~80% of energy consumed), especially when compared to Germany (~35% of energy as electricity, 25% low carbon).

One of the main differences is heating. Economically vulnerable Swedes are literally being driven out of their homes because of German electricity imports, which are enforced by the EU.

Yeah, religious extremists and regressives of all sorts tend to these sorts of horrors. Thankfully, the civilized world has become a lot more secular in the past centuries.

Even so here are still hundreds of millions of people living under governments with religious laws that enforce, enable and perpetrate these kinds of atrocities.