ViaEuropa Energy · EnergyNet

The built environment becomes connected local energy markets

ViaEuropa runs no factories and sells no electricity. We are the OSEO, the Open Service Exchange Operator: the open-access model we invented in Swedish broadband, applied to energy. All operations on other people’s infrastructure, connected to a marketplace of services.

The company in four pages Contact

Coverage and research

Independent voices first

The New York Times The world needs better power grids. Why smaller may be better. September 2026, from the Lund build Volts podcast Making the electricity grid work like the internet David Roberts in conversation with Jonas Birgersson, January 2026 Vinnova · podd Framtidens energisystem: Sveriges nästa stora exportframgång? Innovation, Vinnovas podd, avsnitt 64, med Jonas Birgersson som gäst Viable Cities · video Göran Persson och Jonas Birgersson om EnergyNet Transition Lab Forum 20, med f.d. statsministern Göran Persson Energimyndigheten · podd Energievangeliet Energiutblick avsnitt 3, med Jonas Birgersson: internetbyggets lärdomar för energisystemet Vinnova · Stanford Framtidens hållbara lösningar: så samarbetar Stanford med Sverige Mikronät med Lunds universitet och BTH; intervju med Jimmy Chen (på engelska) Viable Cities · Lunds kommun Nästa steg i kraftsamling för lokal energiomställning 48 städer mot EU:s innovationsfond, med EnergyNet som möjlig systemlösning Viable Cities · launch Launch of the global energy system of the future in Brunnshög, Lund The Swedish climate-neutral cities programme Paper · arXiv EnergyNet Explained The architecture: routers, protocol, operating system Paper · arXiv EnergyNet Quantified Simulation framework and resilience results Paper · arXiv EnergyNet in Practice Long grid, short grids and mobility-based energy peering

“Treating electrons like data could lead to unlimited energy for a low fixed fee.” David Roberts, Volts

Four pages, four minutes

What we do, and where everyone else fits

The whole company in four one-pagers: the stack, the money flow, the deployment machine, and the one-minute definition.

Explainer 1: the six-layer EnergyNet stack and the telecom mirror — 1 · The stackSix layers, who builds and sells each one, and the telecom mirror.

Explainer 2: how the money flows from tenant to property to operator — 2 · Follow the kronaOne home in the blend, year 1: who gets what, and why they sign.

Explainer 3: one property from decision to operation — 3 · One propertyFrom investment case to go-live, and what the board sees.

Explainer 4: four things ViaEuropa is not, four things it is — 4 · In one minuteFour things we are not, four things we are.

All four as one PDF: ViaEuropa_Explainers_1-4.pdf

The deployment cycle

From decision to operation, the unit we repeat

A blended picture from our first multi-family deployments. The clock in each step is the customer’s own governance calendar. Prove once, deploy everywhere.

Weeks, standardised

EnergyCase

One investment case, three perspectives: investor, property, tenants and society.

Typically 2 to 3 months

Decision (FID)

The board approves on the case, on its own gate calendar.

6 to 9 months, toward 3

Build

Routers, storage, solar, DC links. Specified open, or delivered by VEE as a one-stop BOT project.

At first delivery

Go-live

Collective supply begins and the minimum 60-month contract clock starts.

60+ months

Operate

BRIKKS ESO runs settlement, billing and 24/7 operations.

≈2,690 kr

lower tenant cost per household and year, blended across multi-family projects, fixed green price

≈50%

lower peak grid import, project estimate in the published papers; field measurements to follow

995,000

homes under the Swedish Allmännytta framework alone

15+

mission cities in the Viable Cities network preparing first EnergyNet pilots

Open by design

An open standard is how a new grid architecture wins

Energy Protocol (EP)

Energy as routable packets. Open and free for all, like IP, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Zero licence, forever.

EnergyNet TaskForce

We initiated the protocol and founded the non-profit TaskForce that stewards it, the way internet standards are stewarded.

Vendor neutrality

Components specified open, a multivendor router market welcomed. Open standard and vendor neutrality de-risk the investment decision for properties, cities and infrastructure funds.

Our business model, plainly: our core revenue is an operator share of the property’s energy sales, on contracts of minimum 60 months. Marketplace services and software licences grow with the ecosystem. The property owns the installation and the sale; grid owners are partners, and the long grid remains the backbone.

Contact

Talk to us

Housing companies and cities: ask for an EnergyCase for one of your properties. Vendors and partners: ask where your products fit in the stack. Media and research: the papers above are the best starting point.