 “Sweden’s energy policy, in both the short and the long term, is to safeguard the supply of electricity and other forms of energy on terms that are competitive with the rest of the world.It is intended to create the right conditions for efficient use of energy and a cost efficient Swedish supply of energy, with minimum adverse effect on health, the environment or climate, and assisting the move towards an ecologically sustainable society.”

To make recommendations on how dependency on oil should be broken, the government created a Commission on Oil Independence ("Kommissionen för att bryta oljeberoendet i Sverige till år 2020"), headed by the then Prime Minister Göran Persson, which reported in June 2006.In their report, the Commission proposed the following targets for 2020