Case Study: Sweco achieves $20M annual savings and energy-efficiency with Lavastorm Analytics

Powering The Energy Industry With Advanced Analytics

Energiforsk, a consortium representing Sweden’s largest utilities, engaged Sweco and Lavastorm to tackle rising network costs and help meet the EU’s 20% energy‑efficiency target by 2020. The core challenge was influencing consumer behavior to flatten peak demand—utilities had extensive hourly smart‑meter data but lacked the analytics capability to convert that data into effective time‑based pricing and incentives.

Sweco implemented the Lavastorm analytics engine to model customer responses and simulate hourly pricing using up to 10 billion rows of metering data, enabling variable pricing plans that encourage off‑peak use. The approach is projected to flatten grid load, cut energy losses, lower capital and operating costs, and yield over $20M in annual savings (more than $84M over four years), while advancing Sweden toward the EU efficiency goal.

Sweco

Magnus Linden

Project Leader