Node-level screening
Capacity is screened node by node with the network operator rather than from national capacity maps. Published data lags the operator's own view of headroom and planned reinforcement.
Power-first data centre development in Finland and Sweden.
Boregrid originates grid capacity and develops it into permitted, contracted and energised data centre sites — from single-megawatt inference facilities to campuses above 250 MW.
1 GW+Development pipeline across Finland and Sweden
80 MW+Data centre developed and exited
1–250 MWSite scale, inference to AI factory
110 kVGrid connection agreements executed
Illustrative configuration. Configurations range from a grid connection only to hybrid systems combining grid import with on-site wind, solar, battery storage and firming generation. The configuration is set by the node and the load profile.
Company
A development partner for international operators and investors in the Nordic market.
Boregrid originates and secures grid capacity, acquires and permits land, structures energy supply, and manages design and construction through to energisation. The same team continues into operation, managing power procurement, flexibility and heat offtake.
Development is executed in Finnish and Swedish, directly with network operators, municipalities, landowners and heat utilities. Compute operators and infrastructure investors engage Boregrid as their local development partner rather than establishing a Nordic team of their own.
Sites are developed to a customer's specification rather than to a generic reference design. Requirements for density, cooling, redundancy and ramp are set before the design is frozen, while they can still shape the electrical concept, the grid application and the permit.
Origination
Finding capacity that is not on the map.
Legacy industrial connections
Brownfield sites and industrial parks carrying existing connection entitlements and established zoning, where reinforcement is incremental rather than new.
Co-location with production
Load sited with generation. Behind-the-meter and separately connected structures carry different treatment; the choice is made on which one releases capacity fastest.
Flexibility inside the application
Curtailable load and storage offered as part of the connection negotiation. A load the operator can manage at peak is offered terms a fixed load is not.
Staged capacity and firming
On-site firm generation bridges the gap while reinforcement completes, so first load energises well before full grid capacity is available.
Municipal alignment
Heat offtake and local industrial benefit move the political timeline as well as the technical one, which is where permit schedules are won or lost.
Available headroom is node-specific, and the published picture is not the operator's picture. Site-level capacity and grid status are released under NDA.
Scale
The load decides the site class.
Boregrid originates across urban, regional and transmission-level nodes. Inference and training workloads place different requirements on location, latency and power, so the site class is matched to the workload rather than the other way around.
| Edge and inference 1–10 MW |
Urban and near-urban nodes where latency and heat recovery are relevant. Existing or lightly reinforced connections, proximity to district heating demand, short time to energisation. |
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| Regional and neocloud 10–50 MW |
Mid-scale sites balancing power price against proximity to demand. Heat offtake generally viable. Hybrid behind-the-meter configurations common. |
| AI factory 50–250 MW and above |
Transmission-level campuses selected on power price and available headroom. Phased in modules, frequently combining grid import with co-located generation and firming capacity. |
Energy
Flexibility as a connection and revenue strategy.
Network operators across the Nordics are managing constrained connection capacity. The binding constraint is generally firm headroom at peak and system balancing, rather than energy volume.
A site able to reduce load on notice, discharge storage into a peak, or operate on on-site generation for a defined period can be offered terms a fixed load cannot. Flexibility is treated as part of the connection negotiation, not as a later addition. The same assets generate revenue through reserve market participation, peak shaving and price arbitrage.
| Grid connection | Capacity applications, queue management, DSO and TSO technical review, and connection agreements up to 110 kV negotiated on staged capacity and reinforcement timing. |
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| Power procurement | PPA tender and structuring, forward hedging and guarantees of origin. Supply agreements executed before a site transfers, so the buyer inherits a known cost of energy. |
| Wind and solar | Co-located or adjacent generation, developed with energy partners or acquired at permit stage, connected behind or beside the meter as regulation allows. |
| Battery storage | Ride-through and UPS function, peak shaving against capacity charges, reserve market participation, and bridging load during grid reinforcement. |
| Turbines and generator sets | Firm on-site capacity for early energisation, backup and black start, with duty shared against storage where cost-effective. |
| Heat recovery | Recovered heat delivered to a district heating network under a take-or-pay offtake agreement. |
| Control layer | A single energy management system dispatching import, generation, storage and curtailable load against price, reserve obligations and redundancy commitments. |
Reserve market participation requires prequalification by the transmission system operator and is specific to each site, asset and product. Boregrid designs for prequalification and manages the process.
Regulatory framework
We develop inside the rules that decide the outcome.
Finnish and Swedish frameworks determine the schedule, the cost of power and whether a site is feasible at all. They are handled at origination rather than discovered during delivery.
| Connection and flexibility terms | Curtailment obligations, staged capacity, queue rules and reinforcement cost allocation differ by operator and are negotiated rather than published. |
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| Co-location of generation | Behind-the-meter and separately connected generation carry different tariff, metering and tax treatment. The structure is selected per site. |
| Electricity taxation | Data centre electricity tax classification and the size, heat recovery and reporting conditions attached to it, structured at design stage rather than claimed afterwards. |
| Heat recovery | District heating integration requirements, network operator technical standards, and EU energy efficiency reporting obligations applying to data centres. |
| Permitting sequence | Zoning, building permit, appeal periods, environmental review and EIA thresholds, with realistic timelines assessed per municipality. |
| Electrical acceptance | High-voltage installation approval and inspection regime through to commissioning acceptance. |
| Reserve market access | Transmission operator prequalification requirements, specific to each asset and product, managed as part of delivery. |
Framework detail is jurisdiction and site specific. Boregrid owns the process and the counterparty interface; specialist legal and tax counsel is retained per project.
RTB+
What transfers with the site.
Ready-to-build is a threshold. RTB+ is what makes a site buildable on the day it changes hands.
Conventional ready-to-build
- Land held or under executed option
- Grid connection agreement executed
- Building permit legally valid
- Concept design complete
The buyer inherits the site, and every remaining energy, regulatory and procurement question with it.
Boregrid RTB+
- Power purchase agreement or hedge executed
- Behind-the-meter generation and storage designed into the electrical concept
- Flexibility and reserve capability specified, with the prequalification path defined
- District heating offtake contracted where a network is reachable
- Electricity tax and regulatory structuring complete
- Long-lead procurement scoped and schedulable from day one
- Boregrid retained as development manager and owner's representative
Everything opposite, plus the above. The buyer inherits a known cost of energy and a schedulable procurement path.
The Boregrid Model
Four ways to work with us.
Origination
Identification and control of grid capacity, land and early consents. For operators and investors seeking Nordic capacity ahead of a committed load.
Anchored development
Development to a committed customer's specification, transferred as RTB+ or carried through to energisation, with Boregrid retained as development manager.
Foothold
Local development office services for owners holding their own asset: grid, permitting, land, energy procurement and contractor management under mandate. Priced on a mobilisation fee, a monthly retainer and milestone success fees.
Energised operations
Power procurement and hedging, dispatch of storage and generation, reserve market participation and heat offtake management.
Fees are weighted to development milestones that occur only if a project progresses: permit legally valid, grid capacity agreement executed, ready-to-build, first energisation. Where appropriate Boregrid holds a minority interest in the project company or a share of heat revenue.
Network
One project, assembled from a network.
The first development gates are decided by relationships rather than by analysis. Boregrid holds them directly rather than through agents, and selects and manages the delivery partners against its own design and programme.
Landowners and industrial parks
Ownership research, options and acquisition, easements, access and adjoining parcels.
Municipalities
Zoning strategy, permit process, local industrial benefit and community engagement.
Energy companies and IPPs
Power purchase agreements, co-location of generation, and joint development.
Transmission and distribution operators
Capacity applications, technical review, connection terms and reinforcement sequencing.
Heat network operators
Take-or-pay offtake for recovered heat and integration into the network's supply plan.
Engineering consultants
Permit design, structural and architectural work, and permit studies.
Construction and EPC
Civils, installation, MEP integration and commissioning under Boregrid management.
Electrical and HV equipment
Switchgear, transformers and long-lead electrical procurement against our design.
Cooling, MEP and modular supply
Direct liquid cooling, mechanical plant and modular data centre build-out.
Track record
What the team has delivered.
- 1 GW+ development pipeline across Finland and Sweden
- 80 MW+ data centre developed and successfully exited
- 110 kV grid connection agreements executed with Nordic network operators
- Building permits secured and legally valid on developed sites
- Take-or-pay district heating offtake contracted for recovered heat
- Heat-capture data centre delivered to a municipality-owned energy company
- Developments co-located with solar, wind and battery storage
- 10 MW of compute capacity operated, including flexible load and curtailment
- Several letters of intent signed with compute operators
- Long-standing working relationships across Nordic utilities, network operators and municipalities
Tell us your load and your date.
A capacity conversation is most efficiently opened with a required IT load in MW and a target energisation date. Site-level capacity, grid status, permit status, energy structure and ready-for-service windows are released to qualified counterparties on execution of a mutual NDA, which can be signed within the week.