Germany cleverly designed this particular variant of the 'free market' to ensure that access to cheap energy can't be used as a competitive advantage against their industries when they closed their nuclear plants. Having the same price in northern Sweden and Norway in winter as in central Europe is insane.

Now Sweden is stuck in a terrible situation where we're forced to quickly sell our excess energy to Google/Microsoft/Facebook before the EU will force the use of the bottleneck fees to build more cables to Germany.

Northern Sweden don't have the same prices as central Europe or even close to that. The underlying reason is that the transfer capability doesn't handle equalizing it. However, southern Sweden is a lot closer - Sweden is divided into 4 different price regions with insufficient transfer capability between them.