Pontus Chaderton · Stockholm

Building the intelligence layer for the power grid.

MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering at KTH · Business Development Associate at KTH AI Society

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Business Development, KTH AI Society
Studying
MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering, KTH · ’27
Shipped
BESS Bench: Battery Arbitrage Backtester
Partnerships
Google · Microsoft · OpenAI · AWS

About

The power grid is the largest machine humans have ever built, and it is being rebuilt right now. Electrification, intermittent renewables, and datacenter load are stressing infrastructure that was designed for a slower world. That is the problem I have organised my education and my work around.

I'm studying Sustainable Energy Engineering at KTH in Stockholm, graduating in June 2027. From 2024 to 2026 I worked alongside my studies as a Project Engineer at Ellevio, one of Sweden's largest electricity distribution companies, where I built forecasting models and BI tools that helped the business see what the grid is doing and what it will do next. Working inside a DSO taught me something no course could. The bottleneck in the energy transition is rarely the hardware. It is how well you can predict, plan, and decide with the data you already have.

That conviction pulled me toward the AI side of the problem. At the KTH AI Society I run business development, building partnerships with Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Nordic AI startups. The work connects the people training models with the people who have real problems to point them at.

The projects below are where these two worlds meet. They run on real energy data, in live systems, with software that explains what is happening rather than only displaying it.

Projects

01Live

BESS Bench: Battery Arbitrage Backtester

Backtest a battery energy storage system's day-ahead arbitrage revenue against real Nord Pool spot prices for Swedish bidding zones SE3 and SE4, 2023–2025. Configure power, capacity, round-trip efficiency, and state-of-charge limits, then a linear program solves the dispatch schedule and shows revenue, cycling, and hour-by-hour charge/discharge detail. The solver assumes perfect foresight of prices, so the result is a revenue ceiling rather than a forecast.

Next.jsTypeScriptLinear programmingNord Pool data

Experience

2024–2026

Stockholm

Project Engineer · Ellevio

Ellevio distributes electricity to close to a million customers in Sweden. I joined as an intern in June 2024, moved into a Project Engineer role in January 2025, and left in September 2026. I worked on the data side of grid operations, turning operational data into decisions.

  • Built an AI agent, now in production, that pre-reviews project investment documents against recurring issues drawn from 386 historical reviews, with an automated workflow feeding it live SharePoint data, built inside the Microsoft 365 tenant for data sovereignty
  • Built forecasting models for load and grid utilisation
  • Built a five-page Power BI portfolio dashboard on Databricks, auditing the existing queries, fixing an error that was hiding all forward-looking planning data, and reconciling a 220-project discrepancy against the organisation's reference figures
  • Translated between grid engineering questions and data science answers

2025–Present

Stockholm

Business Development Associate · KTH AI Society

The KTH AI Society is one of the largest student AI communities in the Nordics. I run partnerships, the commercial engine that funds the society's projects and events.

  • Part of Stockholm delivery and partnerships for HackEurope, a pan-European hackathon across Stockholm, Dublin and Paris with over 1,000 participants and 250,000 EUR in prizes, run with Anthropic, Stripe, Lovable and ElevenLabs
  • Co-organised a 24-hour AI agents hackathon with Florent Venture Partners, with a 100,000 SEK prize pool and mentors and jury from Google Maps, Apple, Microsoft and Google
  • Ran a Codex build session with OpenAI and a workshop on sovereign AI infrastructure with Thalamind's founding team
  • Partner network spanning Google, Microsoft, AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Lovable, ElevenLabs and Nordic AI startups

2021–2027

Stockholm

MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering · KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Graduate studies focused on energy systems, power markets, and the modelling and optimisation techniques that keep a renewables-heavy grid stable. Expected graduation June 2027.

Contact

Working on something at the intersection of energy and AI? I'd like to hear about it.