KUSK

Project leader: Philip Peck 

Duration: October 2024 - September 2030

Collaborators: KTH Division of Energy Processes 

IIIEE researchers: Philip Peck, Jenny Palm

Financing body: Energimyndigheten

Aim: The project has an overall purpose to contribute knowledge of direct and indirect socio-economic effects and sustainability aspects of large projects that are part of Swedish society’s extraordinary energy and climate transition. Major contemporary investments in industry and infrastructure represent a historic development that affects the whole of society. The knowledge and tools built in KUSK will strengthen capacity needed to forecast and understand changes in areas such as employment, demographics, housing, regional GDP, and regional energy system dynamics. This can in turn support broader societal understanding of the implications of the energy system transformation required to reach the goal of Swedish net-zero emissions in 2045.

An important objective within the project is to contribute to the development of interdisciplinary energy-system research processes. Reflecting this, doctoral students with different scientific backgrounds will collaborate and co-create with actors in industry and regional governance systems. As part of such work, they will contribute to the development of an energy system module that complements Sweden’s Regional Analysis and Forecasting System (Raps) so that the impact of large energy-system projects on regional energy flows and infrastructure can be better assessed.

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