Swedish Startup Abundry Launches to Build the Decision Intelligence Layer for Energy Abundance

YGNE, GOTLAND – At Almedalen Week today, Einride founders Robert Falck and Filip Lilja, with energy-transition veterans Anders Åhlén and Robert Westerdahl, launched Abundry, a company building the Decision Intelligence Layer for Energy. The site was deliberate: Ygne is the landfall of the world’s first commercial HVDC link.

Abundry combines digital twins, AI, optimization, and energy-system data to help utilities, cities, industrial operators, and infrastructure investors plan and run their energy systems.

“We believe the next generation of energy infrastructure will not be defined by what we build, but by how intelligently we operate what already exists. For more than a century, the energy sector focused on building physical assets. The next era will be defined by the intelligence that connects, understands, and continuously improves them,” said Robert Falck, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of Abundry. “At the place where long distance transmission was once pioneered, we are now building the intelligence layer for the next era of energy.”

“Energy systems are becoming increasingly complex as generation, storage, electrification, and flexibility grow across the grid. Organizations need a way to understand their systems, anticipate change, and make better decisions over time. We believe intelligence allows energy systems to improve continuously, creating compounding gains in capacity, resilience, and efficiency. That is what Abundry is built to deliver,” said Robert Westerdahl, Acting Chief Commercial Officer, Board Member and Co-Founder of Abundry.

Europe’s grid was built to move power one way, to passive consumers. Electricity’s share of EU final energy consumption is set to roughly double by 2040[i] — implying additional annual electricity production of roughly 2000 TWh, an increase of 75% compared to today. Driven by electrified transport, heat, industry, AI and data centres[ii]. At the same time, supply is shifting towards distributed, variable renewables, while large industrial loads, once constant, are increasingly able to act as flexible demand.

The strain already shows: about 170 GW of wind power awaits grid connection across Europe as of May 2026[iii]. This corresponds to almost 20% of the total electricity demand in Europe if operational. In addition, more than €7 billion of clean power has recently been curtailed in seven countries because the grid could not absorb it[iv]. Closing the gap is expected to amount to roughly €660 billion per year by 2030[v], rising to €1.2 trillion per year by 2040 in Europe alone[vi].

“The infrastructure often already exists and the grid can frequently carry more than we realize. What limits the energy transition is increasingly the ability to understand complex systems, make better decisions, and act faster as conditions change,” said Anders Åhlén, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Abundry. “Organizations that can continuously improve how they plan, operate, and coordinate their energy systems will move faster, reduce costs, and unlock more value from existing infrastructure.”

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[i] The European Commission’s 2040 Communication forecasts up to a doubling of the electricity share in EU final energy consumption to roughly 50% by 2040, underpinned by an interim target of 32–35% by 2030. Source: European Commission, 2040 Climate Target Communication (2024) & Electrification Action Plan, via Eurelectric. This macroeconomic surge corresponds to an expansion from today's ~2,500 TWh baseline to over 4,500 TWh by mid-century to meet 2040 zero-emission trajectories. Source: Eurelectric, Grids for Speed Study (2024)

[ii] EU and UK data-centre electricity demand is projected to rise from around 100 TWh in 2022 to between 149 and 287 TWh by 2030. Source: Eurelectric, Power Barometer 2025 (drawing on European Commission, McKinsey and ICIS).

[iii] Around 170 GW of wind energy projects are waiting for grid-connection permits in Europe. Source: WindEurope / Energía Estratégica (May 2026).

[iv] €7.2 billion in renewable electricity was curtailed across seven countries in 2024, with generators still compensated and the cost passed to bill payers. Source: Beyond Fossil Fuels, with E3G, Ember and IEEFA (May 2025).

[v] According to the European Commission's Clean Energy Investment Strategy, adopted on March 10, 2026, the broader energy sector requires €660 billion annually by 2030 to fund renewable generation, energy efficiency schemes, and decentralized storage.

[vi] The December 2025 EU Grids Package cites a headline figure of €1.2 trillion for the period 2024–2040. Source: European Commission, European Grids Package (December 2025).