Sweden should serve as a “warning example” for future electricity transmission problems for other EU states should they turn their back on nuclear energy, Carl Berglöf, the country’s nuclear new-build coordinator told the European Commission.

Speaking at the first Stakeholders’ Forum of the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors in Brussels, Berglöf said that by replacing nuclear power with a surge in wind power capacity Sweden had created a more fragile system.

He said that since the closure since 1999 of six nuclear units – at the Barseback, Oskarshamn and Ringhals nuclear sites – the country had rapidly developed wind power, which had become the largest power source in Sweden.