LF Energy Summit Europe 2025
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| Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks | Alex Thornton | 05m |
Opening remarks summarize that LF Energy funds and builds concrete outputs not white papers, claiming the energy sector needs less talk, more code. Members pay… | ||
| Keynote: Beyond the Switch: Software as the New Backbone of Energy Infrastruc... | Dr. Christian Hille | 10m |
Accenture and partners present a concrete Sonia blueprint — a modular, open-source OT platform already deployed by a grid operator in Rome and promoted to… | ||
| Keynote: Embedding Open Source in Utility Innovation | Jonny Eriksson, Renan Giovanini | 07m |
Hitachi Energy and GlobalLogic describe concrete steps for shipping open source in utility products including an established open source program office… | ||
| Panel: Expanding the OpenSynth Ecosystem: Open Source Data and AI for Power Systems Modelling | Amber Woodward, François Mirallès, Sebastien Lepy, Pedro Vergara | 46m |
OpenSynth expands from synthetic smart‑meter outputs into a repository of grid topologies, generation and evaluation code, claiming usable AI training data… | ||
| Keynote: Commercial by Design: Turning Open Source into Grid transformation with TROL... | Minh Dupuis | 18m |
Timeline: 2018 idea, 2023 relaunch triggered by FERC-881 leads to an open API called TROLIE hosted by LF Energy and a paid, enterprise-grade product LEP built… | ||
| Keynote Panel: Open Source, Open Minds: Utility Perspectives on Digital Collaboration | Kate Burson, Lucian Balea, Mirko Pracht, Tim Breitenbach | 50m |
Three European TSOs describe concrete open source moves: RTE launches LF Energy work since 2018, sets up an OSPO and publishes code (notably the CPASS… | ||
| Keynote: From Ambition to Reality: How We Built the Global Open Source Community Aro... | Marco Möller | 19m |
EVerest builds a shared middleware for EV charging to cut the industry’s 10–25% session failure rate (top vendors ≈9%), and now counts about 75 contributing… | ||
| Keynote: From Prototype to Innersource to Open Source: Lessons... | Tony Xiang, Jonas van den Bogaard | 20m |
Prototype becomes a modular, high‑performance calculation engine optimized for cloud scale, achieving 10–100× speed boost over prior tools and built for… | ||
| CIM-based Data Exchange Specification for Regional Coordination Processes | Eduardo Relaño Algaba | 27m |
ENTSO-E publishes the Regional Coordination Processes Data Exchange Specification (RCP DES) that maps 17 network code profiles to CGMES (four profiles) and… | ||
| Open Energy Modeling for Mission-critical Planning Purposes | Dr. Tobias Augspurger | 38m |
Open Energy Transition runs institutional pilots and builds tooling that lets regulators and TSOs run open models alongside private inputs: they integrate the… | ||
| Open-Source Congestion Mana... | Jannis Kahlen, Nicolas Omont, Gladys Leon, Jordanno de Assuncao Paiva | 27m |
Grid bottlenecks rise 45% in four years and remedial actions cost €2.5 billion in Germany in 2023, so the work shows a practical stack: data ingestion with GXF… | ||
| LFE Project PowSyBl: Grid Modeling at the Core of Europe’s Power Grid Planification... | Nicolas Omont | 29m |
PowSyBl is presented as an enterprise‑grade, open source framework with three production modules: PowSyBl Metrix for cost‑benefit reinforcement studies, Open… | ||
| COLib - A Collaborative Open-source Library for Power System C... | Geethu Joseph, Lampros Papangelis | 26m |
COLib is a live, centralized open‑source library (collib.net) of documented, validated power‑system component models and testcases that cuts weeks of model… | ||
| Power Grid Model DS: Simplifying Data Science for Distribution Sys... | Peter Salemink, Jaap Schouten | 24m |
Open-source power-grid-model-ds packages a fast C/Python calculation core into a Python data-science toolkit that runs power flow, state estimation… | ||
| Energy Models That Speak the Same Language: The Story of ESDL | Thomas van Dijk | 28m |
An open-source ontology called ESDL standardizes assets, topology, spatial info and profiles and a MapEditor generates ESDL directly from drawn maps; an… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Open-source Cutting Edge Algorithms for Mod... | Josep Fanals Batllori, Carlos Alegre | 13m |
GridCal is an open-source power‑system toolkit that implements a generalized AC/DC single-system solver modeling VSCs as branches with quadratic losses and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Forecasted Congestion Management Using Plug and Play Model | Ankur Arohi | 16m |
Builds a production plug and play model that ingests messy CGMES/UCTE exports from SCADA, runs powsybl, pandapower, PGM and VeraGrid via adapter bridges, and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Integrating CGMES-Based Grid Models Using the Generic Branch in Power... | Udo Schmitz | 10m |
A new Generic Branch component in Power Grid Model lets CGMES electrical equivalents (series impedance and shunt admittance) import directly without converting… | ||
| Sponsored Session: Breaking Down CGMES Barriers: How OpenCGMES Solves Real-World G... | Arne Bernhardt | 29m |
Claims an open Java library that converts broken SIMXML into valid RDF/XML and JSON-LD, parses CGMES files lightning-fast, and fixes serialization and datatype… | ||
| GridFM - Towards Foundation Models for the Electric Grid | Thomas Brunschwiler, Kibaek Kim | 31m |
Pretrained graph models (GNN and graph transformer) reconstruct blanked bus values from synthetic datasets generated by the GridFM data kit and a… | ||
| The Value of Open Source Short-term Energy Forecasting Demo... | Bart Pleiter, Jan Maarten van Doorn | 25m |
openSTEF is a Python framework that delivers probabilistic forecasts hours to days ahead and runs end-to-end pipelines (data prep, feature engineering… | ||
| Lightning Talk: AI4LREANET - AI for Critical Infrastructures | Ricardo Bessa | 10m |
An open-source ecosystem applies distributed and hierarchical reinforcement learning to real-time and predictive operation of power grids, railways and air… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Introducing GAIFARE: Generative AI for Autonomous Renewable Energy | Arila Barnes, Emilio J. Palacios-Garcia, Pierre Volger-Finck, Chris Xie, Karl Xiofeng Yang | 10m |
GAIFARE is an LF Energy ORES project building an AI-powered framework to let devices negotiate local energy: generative AI agents predict solar and load… | ||
| Streamlining SEAPATH Deployment and Management in Electrical Substati... | Matias Vara, Erwann Roussy | 26m |
SEAPATH replaces an error-prone ISO + Ansible install with a single bootable OCI image that embeds a real-time kernel, QEMU, Ceph and lets hosts perform atomic… | ||
| Scalable Fleet Management and Automation for Next-Gen Substations | Ingo Boernig, Christian Koep | 30m |
Flight Control provides a declarative fleet system that manages thousands of remote substations by running an agent calls home model instead of SSH… | ||
| End-to-End Substation Digitalisation with QMU 800 & CMPC 800 | Ebrahim Balouji | 20m |
QMU 800 (merging unit) and CMPC 800 (cyber‑secure substation computer) virtualise protection, metering and analytics by streaming time‑aligned sampled values… | ||
| Building a Vision for DER Interoperability: The CUPID Project i... | Antonello Monti, Alexandre Lucas | 28m |
CUPID provides an open source IEEE2030.5 over NATS client/server library, a legacy protocol converter and an automated test suite; v1.4 is released and used in… | ||
| Introduction To GEISA | Michael Stuber | 27m |
GEISA specifies a uniform management API, a data API and two execution environments (Linux and a virtual runtime) so apps can run on meters and other… | ||
| Open AMI - A Case Study of Global Collaboration | Arila Barnes, Daniel Mohns, Michel Fripiat | 30m |
Open AMI presents an open-source AMI stack that replaces proprietary meter lock‑ins with interoperable components and ESP32 gateway prototypes that read Modbus… | ||
| SEAPATH: What's New - Recent Improvements and Future Developments | Eloi Bail | 32m |
SEAPATH is a deployable open platform built from Linux, KVM/QEMU virtualization, Open vSwitch, Pacemaker/Corosync clustering and Ansible playbooks; the repo… | ||
| What Do Virtualization and SEAPATH Really Change for RTE ? | Bastien Desbos | 26m |
RTE deploys real-time PACS R#SPACE on SEAPATH using Debian + KVM to run protection, automation and HMI functions as virtual machines, moving from dedicated… | ||
| A Case Study on Testing LFE Seapath at National Grid Electricity Transmission | Thomas Charton | 23m |
A proof of concept between GE Vernova and National Grid Electricity Transmission uses LFE SEAPATH to host virtualized protection and control, bypassing the… | ||
| Engineering the Future: Alliander’s Journey Toward Software-Defined Substations | Sander Jansen | 18m |
Alliander centralizes and virtualizes IEDs, decouples sensors with a process bus & centralized virtual IEDs architecture running on substation servers, and… | ||
| How to Integrate Open-Source Software into Enterprise Architecture? | Tim Montag, Hamdi Shishtawi | 30m |
Accenture maps Linux Foundation projects onto grid operator reference architecture and claims over 50% coverage of functional blocks (with EV V2G/OCP covering… | ||
| Digital Sovereignty and Grid Resilience: The Strategic Role of LF Energy and... | Christophe Villemer | 30m |
LF Energy’s SEAPATH provides SEAPATH real-time virtualization for digital substations that is hardware-agnostic, secure, and standards-compliant, enabling… | ||
| Beyond Open Source Risks With the CRA and NIS2 | Sebastian Grüner, Hauke Gierow | 27m |
EU CRA and NIS2 force supply‑chain risk assessments that treat open source as a distinct asset: expect issues like single maintainer risk, no contracts or… | ||
| Security Audits in Action: Helping Improve Multiple LF Energy Projects | Amir Montazery | 29m |
OSTIF reports ~20,000 hours of expert review across nearly 200 projects over 10 years and runs bespoke audits that include threat modeling, tooling review… | ||
| Open Source – Yes, Please! but How? Experiences From the Future Energy Lab | Anika Lange | 31m |
Future Energy Lab adopts open source pragmatically: an urban data platform and open-source dashboard are deployed in a pilot city to avoid vendor lock‑in; a… | ||
| Project Origin - Granular Certificates - From Theory To Practice | Thomas Wisbech | 33m |
Four years of development produce a working centralized registry and wallet system that issues cryptographically auditable hourly certificates, generates about… | ||
| OpenSynth Expands With D-GITT & RTE7000: Open Transmission... | Geethu Joseph, Josep Fanals Batllori | 25m |
Centralized open dataset hub D-GITT hub publishes RTE7000, a node‑breaker representation of the French transmission grid covering 2021–2023 with 5‑minute… | ||
| A Gpu-native Approach on Tackling Grid Topology Optimization... | Leonard Hilfrich, Nico Westerbeck | 31m |
A GPU-native DC solver runs on Jax and interfaces with PowSyBl and Pandapower to evaluate topology changes, achieving a billion load flows per second and… | ||
| Towards an AI Assistant for Tertiary Voltage Control | Balthazar Donon | 26m |
An AI assistant uses PyPowSybl and graph models to run on a full 7K buses French grid with no preprocessing, cutting over-voltage events by roughly half via… | ||
| RTC-Tools Integration & Energy Trading Use Cases: Overview | Jorn Baayen | 29m |
PortfolioEnergy demonstrates that the open-source RTC tools stack, when configured for the Australian NEM and backtested on 2024 forecasts at five‑minute… | ||
| Designing an Agentic AI-Ready Secure Authentication and Authorization Platform | Yuichi Nakamura | 27m |
Practical recipe for letting AI agents call energy APIs: an OAuth 2.1 / FAPI-compliant authorization server built on Keycloak with integration for the Model… | ||
| OneNet Framework - Open Data Space Solution for Energy Digitali... | Ferdinando Bosco, Vassilis Sakas | 29m |
Open-source OneNet Framework implements a federated middleware plus a local connector that keeps data on-premises and negotiates end-to-end transfers, claiming… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Transforming the Energy Sector Through Open Source Procurement | Aurelien Watare | 17m |
Argues that European public procurement should require mandatory OSS capitalization so utilities buy services not code, shifting vendor revenue to SLAs… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Open Source, Our (Un)Natural Resource | Helen Woeste | 13m |
Argues that code functions as infrastructure and needs sustained stewardship not one-off charity, citing OSTIF audits of LF Energy projects and a U.S. Forest… | ||
| Lightning Talk: CRESYM - Quick & Effective Collaborative Research Organisation for... | Sebastien Lepy | 11m |
CRESYM is a Brussels-based non-profit that runs lower-TRL energy research projects and hands proven prototypes to LF Energy for industrialisation; it grows… | ||
| Challenges in Using IEC Standards in Open Source | Nico Rikken | 19m |
IEC communication protocols like IEC 61850 cost 26,000 euros for the full set and are non‑redistributable, while machine‑readable XSDs are published under a… | ||
| Architecture Reference Models – Nbility and LFE Functional Archi... | Prince Singh, Ton van der Knaap | 21m |
A reusable, open reference is already live: Nbility open-source capability model (released last year) maps capabilities, value streams and standardized… | ||
| Rust Meets the Grid: Building Openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Resp... | Hugo van de Pol, Ton Smets | 30m |
openleadr-rs is an opinionated Rust implementation of OpenADR 3.0 that ships a VTN server, client building blocks, plus Dutch Grid Aware Charging profiles and… | ||
| Accelerating EV Adoption With Smart Charging Tools | Pedro P. Vergara | 25m |
Two open-source tools claim to let operators and planners test real-world smart charging: EV2Gym is a modular simulator with Gym API, validated EV models… | ||
| Emerging Energy Management Use Cases for Car Charging | Hauke Feiertag, Simon Seres | 35m |
Chargebyte shifts to open-source EVerest participation and embeds its Nymea IoT stack so energy management runs on the charger controller or a Raspberry Pi… | ||
| Making Our Power Grid Sweat | Daniël Kok, Anna Van Velsen | 26m |
A transformer thermal model based on the IEC loading guide simulates hotspot temperature and top-oil profiles from measured load, transformer spec sheets and… | ||
| Empowering Grid Maintenance With Phlowers: Offline Simulation Tools for Overhead L... | Adrien Goeller | 32m |
Phlowers is an open-source ecosystem of two Python libraries (mechanical and thermal) plus web tools that already run offline and target field crews… | ||
| Sponsored Session: Collaborative Analytics and Semantic Inter... | José Ricardo Andrade, Fábio Coelho | 40m |
Predico platform is an open-source collaborative forecasting marketplace that ran a proof‑of‑concept with Elia: ~30 suppliers now submit daily forecasts, up… | ||
| Planning and Operating the HV Grid With Realistic Precision Usi... | Edwin Derks, Jasper van Casteren | 31m |
ODINA is a toolbox that runs blazingly fast linear calculations to do billions of load‑flow cases for planning and congestion management, linearizing topology… | ||
| Panel Discussion: The Rise of OSPOs in Grid Operations: Insights and Lessons From Hydro-Québec... | Jonas van den Bogaard, Sam Verloop, Sebastian Grüner, Boris Dolley, Moïse Kameni | 29m |
Alliander launches its OSPO after a 2019 open‑source strategy and formalizes it in 2020; Hydro‑Québec's ASPO starts end of 2023; RTE open‑sources the elephant… | ||
| SBOM & Vulnerabilities in SEAPATH | Mathieu Dupré | 37m |
SEAPATH generates SBOMs (Yocto builds emit SPDX while live systems use CycloneDX), then merges those BOMs and scans public sources — NVD and distribution… | ||
| OpenSCD — for Whom and for What? | Christian Dinkel, Stephen Renwick | 26m |
OpenSCD started as OMICRON’s open-source SCL editor and rewrites into a web app with a modular plugin core that lets operators and vendors pick only the blocks… | ||
| CoMPAS Essentials: Key To Simplicity | David Monichi, Stefan Baumgartner | 26m |
CoMPAS is modularized to cut code and complexity, yielding faster delivery and clearer architecture; the team reports the refactor is 80–90% complete and… | ||
| TSO-DSO Coordination Using OperatorFabric | Sascha Eschmann | 31m |
OperatorFabric is an open‑source LF Energy communication hub that is deployable on‑prem deployment and already runs as a public demo instance; it delivers… | ||
| Lightning Talk: RTC-Tools Integration & Energy Trading Use Cases: Demo of Our Open... | Tjerk Vreeken | 09m |
Open-source dispatch code for the Australian NEM that uses RTC-Tools with a Modelica battery model built in OpenModelica and runs a 24‑hour, 5‑minute… | ||
| Lightning Talk: 8 Design Challenges in Behind-The-Meter Orchestration | Nicolas Höning | 08m |
Seita lays out eight concrete design decisions for behind‑the‑meter orchestration: choose between gateway (on-site EMS), cloud EMS and market access; pick… | ||
| Interoperability of Technologies Behind the Meter - Implementations... | Jorrit Nutma, Nicolas Höning | 36m |
S2 arrives as a semantic standard (approved as EN 50491-12-2 in 2022) with open-source communication specs and concrete reference code — S2 Python and Rust… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Simulating Market Competition of Heterogeneous Flexibility O... | Christoph Schimeczek | 10m |
AMIRIS is an open-source agent-based model that simulates day-ahead markets using dynamic programming for storage dispatch, forecasting the merit order and… | ||
| Fireside Chat: Advancing Digital Grids – Lessons From Utilities in E... | T. Granvile, O. Fajemirokun | 28m |
Regional grid already interconnects 53 utilities with a $36B pipeline and runs a central ICC/EMS in Benin while deploying 22 PMUs deployed and SCADA upgrades… | ||
| Wide Area Monitoring, Protection, and Control (WAMPAC) a Necessity for Sec... | K.P. Myhren, G. Borse | 21m |
Statnett demonstrates an operational WAMPAC stack from the NEWEPS project: a Python microservices platform using a Kafka-based protocol, migrated into… | ||
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