Swedish Energy Agency Fossil-Free Electricity Production
Funds Swedish companies, public bodies, universities and research institutes developing fossil-free electricity production through Swedish Energy Agency research and innovation grants.
⚠This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.
The Swedish Energy Agency (Swedish: Energimyndigheten) runs this grant call for research and innovation projects in fossil-free electricity production. The call (Swedish: "Framtidens fossilfria elproduktion för en resilient och robust elförsörjning") sits under the agency's electricity-system research programme Framtidens elsystem, which is one of the agency's main funding efforts for research and development on electricity production, electricity use, and the future grid.
The call put 270 million Swedish kronor (SEK) on the table for the round. The agency aimed to split the money between two categories: about 170 million SEK for Category A (nuclear power) and about 100 million SEK for Category B (other fossil-free generation such as hydropower, pumped storage, wind, solar, ocean energy, and combined heat and power, plus the role of hydrogen in electricity). The source page does not publish a minimum or maximum award per project, so the per-project amount is not known from this source. Support is given as a grant.
Who can apply: companies (legal entities), the public sector, the social-science, humanities, technical and natural-science departments of universities and colleges, and research institutes. Projects where different kinds of actors (for example industry, academia, and research institutes) work together are viewed favourably. Private individuals and sole traders cannot apply. For-profit companies can apply directly.
How to apply: applications were submitted through the agency's online portal (Mina sidor) by the closing date. The round in this source closed on 28 April 2026 at 23:59. The source page does not publish the scoring criteria or review steps, so those are not recorded here.
Practical caveats: this is one round of a recurring research programme rather than a standing open call, so check the agency's calls page for the next round before planning a submission. The 170/100 million SEK split between the two categories is the agency's stated ambition, not a fixed guarantee. No dedicated apply URL is published; applications go through the agency's general portal.
Research and innovation in fossil-free electricity production, split into two categories: Category A (nuclear power) and Category B (other fossil-free generation — hydropower, pumped storage, wind, solar, ocean energy, combined heat and power, and the role of hydrogen in electricity production).
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