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12/12/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 12/12/2025 03:19
Four more years for research on sustainable energy systems
The research programme Mistra Electrification has been awarded funding for a second phase of up to SEK 53 million over a four-year period. The programme's vision is to accelerate a fair and competitive transition to a sustainable and efficient energy system. In its second phase, Mistra Electrification will address the rapidly changing geopolitical, technological and political landscape.
No later than 2045, Sweden should have zero net emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Achieving this goal will require major societal changes, especially within Sweden's energy system. Mistra Electrification, with Energiforsk as programme host, embraces technical as well as social and economic aspects. Rather than focusing on electricity, heating, transport and industry as separate entities, Mistra Electrification's approach is electrification and sector coupling.
Mistra Electrification's first four-year phase and an application for a second phase have been evaluated by an international panel of experts, which has called particular attention to the programme's ability to deliver scientific results within a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary research programme.
In its second phase, Mistra Electrification will specifically address the rapidly changing geopolitical, technological and political landscape by focusing on such aspects as international context and dependencies, as well as energy-related security and preparedness.
"Naturally, it's very exciting and an honour to have been entrusted with working on the second phase of the programme. I'd like to highlight two particular strengths of the programme. Firstly, the close contacts with societal stakeholders, such as energy companies, other industries and various government bodies. And secondly, the skills development taking place with doctoral students and other junior researchers in the programme. It's most stimulating to see how the new generation is tackling the development of the energy system. Having Energiforsk as the programme host further strengthens industrial collaboration and thus the programme's relevance to society. Finally, I'd like to highlight the programme's board, whose broad expertise is extremely valuable to the programme," says Filip Johnsson, programme director of Mistra Electrification.
Energiforsk is the programme host, with research being conducted in an interdisciplinary consortium involving Chalmers University of Technology, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, the University of Exeter, Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), plus various industrial partners.
Updated 12 December 2025, 10:15Published 12 December 2025, 10:10
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