The Swedish Energy Award to be presented at Elfack
The Swedish Energy Award recognises groundbreaking achievements and solutions in the electrical and energy industry. The award aims to promote innovation, encourage collaboration and help accelerate the energy transition.
The competing entries will be announced around 1 March 2027, when voting for the Industry and Visitors’ Choice Award will also open.
Take the opportunity to vote for the innovation you believe will make the greatest contribution to the energy transition.
Both the visitors’ and the jury’s winners will be announced during Elfack.
The following awards will be presented:
- The Jury’s Choice for the Swedish Energy Award
- The Industry and Visitors’ Choice for the Swedish Energy Award
- The Jury’s Honorary Mention (if applicable)
The award ceremony will take place on 13 May 2027 at 14:00 during Elfack. Join us at the Tech Stage on level 2.
Jury for the Swedish Energy Award
The Swedish Energy Award, established by Svenska Mässan, recognizes companies and organizations that excel with groundbreaking solutions. The jury is composed of experts dedicated to evaluating entries based on innovation, impact, and relevance.
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Lotta Bångens
CEO, Energy Efficiency Companies
“Development needs to be accelerated if we are to meet our climate and energy efficiency targets. I believe that a prize can both advance the ‘cutting edge’ by showcasing new technology or new systems and contribute to a greater spread of good solutions. Something we really need more of.”
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Magnus Kuschel
PhD, Innovation Manager, Innovatum Science Park
“The premiere of the Swedish Energy Award provides value-creating opportunities! Elfack is a role model when it comes to bringing the industry and key players together – the aim is to promote, among other things, innovation, sustainability and potential that increases the pace of the necessary transition. Energikontor Väst, part of Innovatum Science Park, supports initiatives that lead to good effects.”
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Björn Sandén
Professor of Innovation and Sustainability, Chalmers University of Technology
“To cope with the energy transition, there is a great need for new ideas. At the same time, the emerging modular energy and information technologies open the door to creativity and radically different solutions. My hope is that this prize can stimulate and recognise new thinking that combines the opportunities of today with the needs of tomorrow.”
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Sara Bargi
PhD, Project Manager, Division Civil Engineering, RISE
“The energy industry holds enormous potential to create a better future for us, but it requires some new thinking and new solutions. I look forward to being part of the jury for the Swedish Energy Award and helping to ensure that sustainable energy solutions get the attention they deserve and need to succeed.”
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Martin Flack
Deputy Head of Resource Efficient Society, Swedish Energy Agency
“New technology that can solve various energy-related challenges is absolutely central to achieving the climate transition. At the Swedish Energy Agency, we work with many parts of this transition, and I think it is exciting to be a jury member of the Swedish Energy Award and get a deeper insight into how companies in different industries work concretely to ensure that it happens.”
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Lowina Lundström
CEO, EIT InnoEnergy Scandinavia
“Innovation is crucial to achieving the energy transition and the Swedish Energy Award is a way to recognise the brilliant ideas that will make it happen.”
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Terese Kuldkepp
Industry Development Manager, Installatörsföretagen
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Louise Ödlund
Professor of Energy Systems, Linköping University
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Anna Jarnö
Business Manager, The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre
"We are proud to present the Swedish Energy Award, which highlights groundbreaking achievements and solutions driving progress in the electricity and energy industry. The nominated companies are selected by an independent and expert jury, ensuring high quality and credibility. The winners will be announced at Elfack, the Nordic region's leading trade fair for electricity and energy."
