Dr. Kristina Lygnerud
The Progress and Opportunities of District Energy Locally and Abroad
Dr. Kristina Lygnerud, A.B. was founded with the vision to speed the energy transition up and to have an impact. The kind of impact that you can be proud of when you tell your grandchildren what you did within your working life. She works with different partners to add unique value to the customer value chains.
Having worked both as a researcher and consultant, Dr. Lygnerud has a unique ability to bridge academics and practitioners. She holds a PhD in Industrial and Financial Economics from Gothenburg University and has specialised in circular business model design and innovation management for energy transition to bridge across economics and engineers.
She has supported and acted as a catalyst in the the knowledge development of the field of low temperature district energy. She coordinated the first EU project on the topic (the ReUseHeat project), participated in a number of complimentary EU projects (SoWhat, SunHorizon, Rewardheat, Flexi-sync, Thunder, Rewitch, Uses4heat) as well as coordinated the first IEA-DHC funded project on low temperature (Annex TS2 Handbook, Low temperature district heating implementation guidebook). For the IEA-DHC she has also performed a study on the future business model of DH and is currently in a project to identify Key Performance Indicators for social sustainability in the sector. Apart from project work, she has served as consultant providing strategic advisory on district heating policy and market development to governments (Ireland and the UK) and district heating companies.
For 6 years, Dr. Lygnerud was the chairperson at the district energy knowledge platform (DHC+) under the European district energy association Euroheat & Power. Currently, she is on the district energy research council of the Swedish Energy Agency and steering committee member of the European Commission’s Investor Dialogue on Energy (working group 4, on heating and cooling).