# Swedish energy minister: need to decouple gas from electricity price
Published: 2022-10-12
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Meta Title: EU Energy Minister Urges Decoupling Gas and Electricity Prices
Meta Description: Swedish energy minister calls for EU to find ways to separate gas and electricity prices, emphasizing need for short-term market interference and support for re
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The European Union needs to find a way to decouple gas and electricity prices, Swedish energy minister Khashayar Farmanbar said on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s energy ministers.

“That can be done through various suggestions,” Farmanbar said. “But one thing is important: What we do now, the market interference needs to be a short time… and also must not be a hinder for renewable and fossil fuel energy production.”

(Reporting by Marine Strauss and Robert Muller, writing by Jason Hovet, editing by Kate Abnett)


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