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Sweden’s Largest Initiative with Advanced Digitalisation – Electrified Flexible Industry

Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency, provide funding for projects that use advanced digital technology to strengthen competitiveness of Swedish industry and society. Chalmers Industriteknik has mobilised almost 50 actors in an initiative exceeding SEK 300 million. This will enable industry to control its electricity use, drive innovation, free up capacity in power grids, and contribute to a more flexible energy system through Advanced Digitalisation. Co-creation will deliver practical demonstrations together with industries around Sweden. Värmland is one of the project’s central demonstration areas, where Glava Energy Center coordinates the regional activities.

Magnus Nilsson, CEO of Glava Energy Center:

– This is a fantastic opportunity to work concretely with industrial processes and focus on system solutions that increase the industry's ability to interact with the energy system.

Oliver Ingwall King, Project Manager at Glava Energy Center:

– We have very strong and concrete cases here in Värmland. Here, we will work with collaboration and exchange between industries and grid companies – so that we can make industrial electrification happen in practice.

Swedish industry is electrifying at record pace – but the power grids are not expanding at the same rate. To avoid slowing down development, solutions are needed that enable industry to use power more intelligently, shift loads, share resources and relieve the pressure on the grids – here and now.

Learning in real environments

Electrified Flexible Industry is a project that brings together actors from across the entire value chain – industry, energy companies, grid owners, academia and innovation environments – and connects production, power use and the electricity grid in one integrated system. All development and learning take place directly in real factories, industrial clusters and energy facilities, where the project meets the complexity that characterizes industry every day.

Eight industrial demonstrations will include functions such as:

  • advanced measurement and data sharing
  • AI-based forecasting
  • automated flexibility control
  • energy sharing between companies
  • local storage and smart control
  • new business models and new roles between industry and grid operators

The demonstrations are carried out in collaboration with industrial actors in several parts of Sweden, with a focus on the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Halland and Jönköping.

Experiences are continuously documented and shared through joint forums for project partners, stakeholders and additional companies, as well as through a dedicated learning track, enabling rapid scaling at a national level.

National digital twin

A central component is the establishment of a national digital twin – enabling simulation and validation of technical, market and regulatory solutions before implementation in real-world environments.

Flexibility, resilience and innovation for the energy system

The goal is to create a more flexible, robust and efficient energy system for industry, enabling faster electrification while also driving innovation with export potential.

In practice, this means turning industry into an active resource in the energy system, not just a consumer – creating a real system shift. The project aims to:

  • increase industrial competitiveness through advanced digitalization
  • reduce peak loads and free up grid capacity
  • enable energy sharing and smart control
  • improve energy efficiency in industrial processes
  • develop new business models and ways of working
  • build a national digital twin for testing technologies and regulations before implementation
  • create scalable solutions for use across Sweden

Demonstrations across Sweden

In Värmland, activities include Gruvön (Grums), Åmotfors, Årjäng, Hagfors, Arvika and Rottneros, as well as Ellevio’s distribution network and energy and production facilities linked to wind power and energy storage. In Västra Götaland, demonstrations take place in Vårgårda, Trollhättan, Gothenburg and Sotenäs, while activities in other regions are carried out in Halmstad and in Småland – Hillerstorp, Värnamo and Jönköping.

Contact for inquiries

About the Electrified Flexible Industry project

  • Project period: May 2026 – April 2029
  • Budget: SEK 320 million, of which SEK 150 million is funded by Vinnova
  • Project Coordinator: Chalmers Industriteknik Foundation
  • Project and Innovation Partners:
    • Glava Energy Center Economic Association
    • Innovatum Science Park (Innovatum AB & Innovatum Progress AB)
    • Lindholmen Science Park & AI Sweden
    • RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
  • Project website at Chalmers Industriteknik Foundation

Implementation and Demonstration Partners:

AB Hilmer Andersson, Autoliv Sverige AB, Billerud Sweden AB (Gruvön Mill), Broson Steel AB, Broson Wheels AB, Center of Innovation Vårgårda, Chalmers University of Technology, DNV Sweden AB, Ellevio AB, Energiforsk AB, Eolus AB, Ericsson AB, ESAB AB, Garantell AB, GITO Heavy Charging Solutions AB, Helicon Technologies AB, Herrljunga Elektriska AB, Höganäs AB, Höganäs Sweden AB, Jönköping Energi AB, Karlstad University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Libra Horizon AB, Magna Electronics Sweden AB, Power Circle AB, Rabbalshede Kraft AB, Rottneros Bruk AB, Scandinavian Horizon AB, Siemens Energy AB, Smögenlax Aquaculture AB, Svenska kraftnät, Sweco Sverige AB, Telia Sverige AB, Troax AB, Uddeholms AB, Uppsala University, Vattenfall AB, Volvo Construction Equipment AB (Arvika plant), Volvo Cars, Åsbro Kursgård AB.

 

Last edited: 07/05 2026