RISE Digital Tvilling Elnät Elflexibel Industri (2026)

Energi.se article (June 2026): RISE leads a newly-funded 25-organisation consortium building a national digital twin of the Swedish electricity grid, as part of the larger “Elflexibel industri” programme.

Funder: Vinnova, Advanced Digitalization research programme.

Key findings

• Consortium: 25 organisations, led by RISE; core partners named as KTH, Svenska kraftnät, Vattenfall, Ellevio, Energiforsk, and Power Circle (The 25 is the digital-twin consortium in the Energi.se article. The whole Elflexibel Industri programme has nearly 50 partners, runs May 2026–April 2029, and is coordinated by Chalmers Industriteknik, with RISE among the innovation partners; budget SEK 320 million, of which about SEK 150 million is from Vinnova. Source: Glava Energy Center project page.)
• Funding: ~52 MSEK allocated specifically to the digital twin component, within a larger “Elflexibel industri” programme with a 320 MSEK total budget, running through spring 2029
• Stage: a comprehensive feasibility study completed in 2025 preceded this funding decision — the consortium has now moved from pre-study to active development, a materially more advanced stage than “early laboratory” work
• Timeline structure: an initial 3-year development phase, with a possible further 3-year extension
• Intended uses: testing multi-vendor communication systems; relay-protection testing across thousands of grid scenarios weekly; component testing for charging stations and solar installations; simulating emergency response and black-start capability
• Design philosophy: the project explicitly aims for “a sufficiently realistic model environment” rather than an exact replica, for security reasons — i.e. deliberately not a 1:1 digital copy of the real grid

Progress

• 2026-10 (LinkedIn, Elflexibel Industri): EDiT partners met in Göteborg (late Sep/early Oct 2026) and moved from a shared vision and goal to concrete planning of the work on physical and digital infrastructure and the case studies. EDiT is meant as an environment where industrial-flexibility solutions can be tested and validated before they’re used at larger scale. (LinkedIn post)

Relevance to existing wiki topics

• Digitalization and Smart Grid — directly answers the gap on RISE’s national digital twin’s progress: this is a funded, active, multi-year, multi-partner project, not an early-stage laboratory effort
• Svenska kraftnät, Ellevio — both named as core partners/co-financiers, relevant to their respective digitalization strategies