Updated "Behovskartan" provides new tools for understanding future energy needs

Access to energy and power is a matter of competitiveness and resilience for Sweden. Uncertainties about what future needs will look like are a challenge for those planning expansions and new connections at electricity grid companies. With funding from the Swedish Energy Agency, AI Sweden has therefore continued to develop Behovskartan.

The first version was launched in 2024 and was primarily a prototype showing how data could be visualized, from a national level down to individual areas in the country's municipalities.

 He continues:

"One changed assumption that we are making possible is to investigate the impact that the expansion of data centers is expected to have in different parts of the country."

In parallel with the new version being made available at www.behovskartan.se, the underlying source code is also being released, including a framework for how data can be modeled and visualized.

Filip Kjellgren hopes that Behovskartan will also contribute to ultimately creating better conditions for using artificial intelligence in forecasting.

"At AI Sweden, we see poor data quality as a recurring challenge when our partners want to start using AI to perform various types of analysis. Through this tool, we make it possible to create immediate value when users start working with their data—a value that can increase over time if layers of AI analysis are also applied," says Filip Kjellgren.