VISION Kristina Lygnerud AB 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.

MISSION Alone is strong but also has limited impact. Kristina Lygnerud AB works with different partners to add unique value to the customer value chains.

CLOSING THE GAP Having worked both as a researcher and consultant Kristina Lygnerud has a unique ability to bridge across academics and practitioners. Kristina 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 the basis for an ability to also bridge across economics and engineers.

TRAJECTORY As a PhD candidate, Kristina studied innovation and risk management in the Swedish district heating population, her PhD was attained in 2010. Thereafter, she worked as strategy and business developer at a multi-utility company (Borås Energi och Miljö) for 5 years before she returned part time to academia (20%) working first at Halmstad University (associate professor) and currently at Lund University (professor). The other part of her time was spent as a researcher and consultant at the Swedish Environment Research Institute where Kristina participated in and led a number of projects funded by the EU and the IEA.

Kristina 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, Kristina has served as consultant providing strategic advisory on district heating policy and market development to governments (Ireland and the UK) and district heating companies.

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS For 6 years, Kristina 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).