Climate & energy
A cross-border Interreg project helping municipalities move from energy strategies to political decisions and implementation for more local renewable energy and stronger energy preparedness.
Project page at Interreg
Period
1 Sep 2026 – 31 Aug 2029
Programme
Interreg Öresund–Kattegat–Skagerrak
BJØRK role
Lead partner
Geography
Sweden & Norway
Project focus
Electrification, industrial transition, growing peak demand, grid constraints and extreme-weather risks put increasing pressure on local and regional energy systems. Municipalities have strategies and ambitions, but often lack practical methods for handling trade-offs and carrying priorities all the way to politically actionable decisions.
ORBIFY develops and tests a practical decision-making approach for distributed energy systems — including local generation, microgrids, storage and demand-side flexibility. The project combines regional benchmarking, a concrete municipal pilot and synthesis into a transferable toolkit.
BJØRK in the project
BJØRK is lead partner and coordinates project management, administration, communication and the overall change logic. BJØRK’s role is to keep the cross-border partnership coherent and turn shared problem understanding into methods municipalities can use in real decision processes.
Partners & context
The project brings together BJØRK Innovation, Fyrbodal’s municipal federation and Norwegian regional/municipal actors, with the Oslo Region and Råde municipality playing central roles in the learning and pilot structure.