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Smart Energy City: Real-Time Energy Monitoring in Norra Djurgårdsstaden

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150 families got real-time electricity, heat and hot-water readings plus controls that ran appliances when power was cheaper. The project period was 2017 to 2018, and it closed with a report, not a service.

Outcome🎯 Succeeded
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byKTH with ABB, Ericsson, Fortum & Ellevio
Scale🏘️ District
FundingCo-financed by the Swedish Energy Agency (and Vinnova per academic analysis) alongside private consortium partners ABB, Ericsson, Fortum and Ellevio.

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 8 more in Stockholm · 🔌 Smart grid & energy guide · ⚡ Energy projects

Smart Energy City let 150 families in Norra Djurgårdsstaden (Stockholm Royal Seaport) see and steer their electricity, water and heat use in real time, so a washing machine could be set to run when the price or the climate impact was lower. Announced in May 2015 by a consortium led by KTH with ABB, Fortum, Ellevio, Ericsson, Electrolux and several developers, it ran as a research project in 2017-2018 with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency. One of its stated questions was whether it makes a difference to show a household its consumption as carbon emissions rather than as money.

Completed 📅 2015–2018

🎓 Lesson

The city's own account of the project states the question and not the answer: whether households behave differently when their consumption is shown as kilograms of CO2 instead of kronor is written up as something the project asked, with no published finding either way. That is the characteristic ending of this genre rather than a failure of this pilot — a peer-reviewed study of Swedish smart-grid pilot projects published in 2025 is titled "Experimenting to remain the same". A demonstrator that closes with a report has still produced something; what it has not produced is a service, and nobody in the consortium was obliged to build one.

⚡ EnergySmart grid & energySensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy CityPublished 20 June 2022The city's project page, giving the project period, the participants, the funder and the research question.
↗ ABB press release (2015)Published 5 May 2015Launch announcement, partner list, 150 apartments.
↗ Fortum press release (2015)Published 4 May 2015Technology description: real-time monitoring, demand response, predictive consumption.
↗ Fastighetssverige — 'Nytt forskningsprogram om smarta elnät'Partners, Swedish Energy Agency co-financing, final report timing (spring/Almedalen 2018). The page states no publication date.
↗ Envall & Rohracher, 'Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 57, article 101037 (peer-reviewed)A peer-reviewed study of the politics of Swedish smart-grid pilot projects, published December 2025 (DOI 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101037). The page states no publication date.
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↗ KTH — Smart Grid Information Management System, Royal Sea Port (pre-study)Published 14 January 2011The university record of the pre-study that preceded the pilot. The page states Published Jan 14, 2011.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: 2015–2018. 4 of 6 sources carry a publication date, from 14 January 2011 to 20 June 2022.

When the sources were published

  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology · researchKTH — Smart Grid Information Management System, Royal Sea Port (pre-study)
  2. Fortum · utilityFortum press release (2015)
  3. ABB · vendorABB press release (2015)
  4. Stockholms stad — Norra Djurgårdsstaden · city governmentNorra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City

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Evidence Passport · public beta 6 addressable claims, 6 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-15e575b8a3b79fdc quantitative
Smart Energy City let 150 families in Norra Djurgårdsstaden (Stockholm Royal Seaport) see and steer their electricity, water and heat use in real time, so a washing machine could be set to run when the price or the climate impact was lower
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city's project page states that in the Smart Energy City research project 150 families could see and control their energy use in real time, that the project developed solutions for using electricity, water and heat more smartly, and gives the washing machine set to run when climate impact or price is lower as the example.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City
Claim 2 clm-830b38b36dcd2e27 quantitative
Announced in May 2015 by a consortium led by KTH with ABB, Fortum, Ellevio, Ericsson, Electrolux and several developers, it ran as a research project in 2017-2018 with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ABB and Fortum releases of early May 2015 announce the collaboration between leading energy, technology and construction companies for next-generation housing in Norra Djurgårdsstaden; the city's page gives the project period as 2017-2018, lists KTH, ABB, Fortum, Ellevio, Electrolux, Ericsson, Bonava, Heba and Erik Wallin among the participants, and names the Swedish Energy Agency as funder.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ABB press release (2015)
  2. Fortum press release (2015)
  3. Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City
Claim 3 clm-01898d3957e39a2e descriptive
One of its stated questions was whether it makes a difference to show a household its consumption as carbon emissions rather than as money
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city's page states that one question has been whether it makes any difference if households get their consumption visualised as carbon dioxide emissions or as money.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City
Claim 4 clm-6dbd782c80442a19 quantitative
whether households behave differently when their consumption is shown as kilograms of CO2 instead of kronor is written up as something the project asked, with no published finding either way
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city's results section poses the question and reports no answer; the KTH record covers the pre-study rather than results.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City
  2. KTH — Smart Grid Information Management System, Royal Sea Port (pre-study)
Claim 5 clm-b6f8cbb789033c88 quantitative
a peer-reviewed study of Swedish smart-grid pilot projects published in 2025 is titled "Experimenting to remain the same"
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The article by Envall and Rohracher, published in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions volume 57 as article 101037 in December 2025, carries exactly this title and subject.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Envall & Rohracher, 'Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 57, article 101037 (peer-reviewed)
Claim 6 clm-2340c935a164a432 descriptive
nobody in the consortium was obliged to build one
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The project is described throughout as a research programme with a defined period and an agency funder, not as a service commitment by any of the participating companies.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City
  2. Fastighetssverige — 'Nytt forskningsprogram om smarta elnät'
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-27-source-dating effective 2026-07-28 · created 2026-08-27

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
KTH with ABB, Ericsson, Fortum & Ellevio
Actor types
research, private, utility
Funding model
mixed
Funding description
Co-financed by the Swedish Energy Agency (and Vinnova per academic analysis) alongside private consortium partners ABB, Ericsson, Fortum and Ellevio.
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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6 source dossiers

Norra Djurgårdsstaden 2030 (City of Stockholm) — Smart Energy City norradjurgardsstaden2030.se · 5 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · norradjurgardsstaden2030.se
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-06-20
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-07-28
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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The city's project page, giving the project period, the participants, the funder and the research question.

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Claims linked
ABB press release (2015) new.abb.com · 1 linked claim

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Name not classified · new.abb.com
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2015-05-05
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Record last verified
2026-07-28
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2026-08-27
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Launch announcement, partner list, 150 apartments.

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Fortum press release (2015) fortum.com · 1 linked claim

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Name not classified · fortum.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2015-05-04
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Record last verified
2026-07-28
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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Technology description: real-time monitoring, demand response, predictive consumption.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Fastighetssverige — 'Nytt forskningsprogram om smarta elnät' fastighetssverige.se · 1 linked claim

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Name not classified · fastighetssverige.se
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-07-28
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2026-08-27
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Partners, Swedish Energy Agency co-financing, final report timing (spring/Almedalen 2018). The page states no publication date.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Envall & Rohracher, 'Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 57, article 101037 (peer-reviewed) sciencedirect.com · 1 linked claim

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Name not classified · sciencedirect.com
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-07-28
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2026-08-27
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A peer-reviewed study of the politics of Swedish smart-grid pilot projects, published December 2025 (DOI 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101037). The page states no publication date.

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Claims linked
KTH — Smart Grid Information Management System, Royal Sea Port (pre-study) kth.se · 1 linked claim

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Publisher
Name not classified · kth.se
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2011-01-14
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Record last verified
2026-07-28
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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The university record of the pre-study that preceded the pilot. The page states Published Jan 14, 2011.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart Energy City: Real-Time Energy Monitoring in Norra Djurgårdsstaden” — Stockholm, Sweden. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/stockholm-smart-energy-city/ (last verified 2026-07-28). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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