Research project · 2026–2027

Enabling Grid and Customer Benefits
via Virtual Energy Sharing

A KTH × E.ON research collaboration, backed by the Swedish Energy Agency, building the business models, behavioral evidence, and digital tools that aim to enable virtual energy sharing in Sweden's distribution grids.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
E.ON Energidistribution
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency

About the Project

The EU has opened the door to virtual energy sharing through RED II and the Internal Electricity Market Directive — yet Sweden still has no concrete operational framework to put it into practice. This project aims to close that gap.

We develop a forward-looking business-model framework built for Swedish regulation, grid constraints, and customer rights — spanning regulatory mapping, stated-preference behavioral analysis, data-driven flexibility modeling, and grid-impact simulation on real low-voltage feeders. Each layer will be validated in a live pilot within E.ON's distribution network in southern Sweden.

Residential Interactive Platform

A stated-preference instrument for customer behavioral research.

The platform is designed to implement a stated-preference survey for assessing customer willingness to participate in virtual energy sharing initiatives. Participants respond under hypothetical scenarios spanning political, economic, societal, technical, and environmental factors.

Results will inform the project's behavioral analysis and socio-economic benefit assessment, complementing data-driven flexibility models built from smart meter and DER metadata.

Open the platform
Residential Interactive Platform screenshot

Virtual Energy Community Pilot

The pilot explores how virtual energy sharing can function in practice by testing digital solutions, business models and operational approaches that enable energy to be shared virtually through the existing electricity grid.

The pilot is carried out in Malmö and includes three commercial test customers consisting of property owners, representing a mix of residential and commercial properties with complementary energy profiles. The pilot will also include private customers within bidding zone SE4. By coordinating assets such as solar PV, batteries, and electric vehicles based on smart meter data and distributed energy resource operation logs, the project evaluates customer and system benefits across different sharing scenarios.

The pilot is expected to provide key insights into technical feasibility, market design, and future regulatory needs.

Team

Researchers from KTH and partners at E.ON Energidistribution.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Qianwen Xu
Principal Investigator
Xin Lu
Researcher
Xuan Jiang
Researcher
E.ON Energidistribution
Linnea Ljungberg
Project manager
Madelene Eriksson
Customer relations
David Zanders
Process and market structure
David Lundgren
Data and grid regulations

Contact

Project inquiries
qianwenx@kth.se
xinl5@kth.se
Address
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
Partners
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • E.ON Energidistribution
  • Swedish Energy Agency