BJERREGAARD CONSULTING APS

Their core work

Bjerregaard Consulting is a Danish SME based in Aarhus that provides business and organizational consulting for sustainable energy transitions at the community level. Their core value in research consortia is translating technical energy solutions — heat pumps, EV integration, demand response systems — into viable business models and socio-economic frameworks that local communities can actually adopt and operate. They bring the "will this work in practice?" perspective that research-heavy consortia often lack: assessing organizational structures, community acceptance, and economic feasibility alongside the engineering. Both their H2020 projects are Innovation Actions, meaning they work on real-world deployment and demonstration rather than basic research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

With only two projects, both starting in 2021, there is no multi-year trajectory to trace — the apparent "shift" reflects two parallel workstreams rather than a chronological evolution. Early keywords cluster around community-level framing: local energy systems, heat pumps, EV car sharing, business models, and organizational aspects — suggesting a consultancy lens focused on deployment feasibility and community uptake. The more recent keywords (demand response control systems, multi-energy systems, integrated energy vectors, carbon neutral systems) point toward a more technically-integrated and systems-level scope, possibly reflecting growing client demand for quantifiable carbon outcomes alongside organizational advice.

They appear to be moving from community-level organizational consulting toward technically deeper engagement with carbon-neutral multi-energy system design, which positions them for consortia focused on measurable decarbonization outcomes rather than just deployment readiness.

How they like to work

Bjerregaard Consulting has participated exclusively as a consortium partner — never as coordinator — across both projects, which is consistent with a specialized consulting firm brought in for a defined scope of work rather than project leadership. Their presence in consortia of 28 unique partners across 4 countries suggests they operate within large, multi-national Innovation Action consortia where they contribute a focused consultancy function. There is no signal of repeated partnerships with the same organizations, pointing to a broad network rather than a tight inner circle of recurring collaborators.

Their two projects have generated 28 unique consortium partners across 4 countries, which is a strong network breadth for a two-project portfolio and reflects the large consortia typical of Innovation Action funding. Geographic reach is primarily northern and central Europe, consistent with Danish energy sector collaboration patterns.

What sets them apart

Bjerregaard Consulting occupies a specific niche that most energy research consortia need but rarely have in-house: a small, agile consultancy that can translate complex integrated energy systems into community-level business cases and organizational blueprints. Unlike university research groups or technology developers, they bring a practitioner's focus on what makes an energy transition actually stick — the economic models, organizational structures, and community buy-in. For a consortium building a real-world energy demonstration project, they offer credibility in the "exploitation and replication" workpackages that reviewers scrutinize closely.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SUSTENANCE
  The highest-funded of their two projects (EUR 113,575), focused on achieving carbon-neutral energy communities through multi-energy system integration — a direct fit with EU Green Deal demonstration priorities.
• SERENE
  A longer-running project (2021–2025) that explicitly combines technical integration (heat pumps, EV car sharing) with socio-economic and organizational analysis, showcasing their cross-disciplinary consulting role.