LF Energy Summit Europe 2026
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Welcome and Opening Remarks | Alex Thornton | 16m |
Welcome remarks note 480+ attendees in Berlin (up from 365 in Aachen and 250 in Brussels), thank sponsors SUSE, Google and NGINX, and call out three dozen LF… | ||
| Keynote: Delivering Flexibility Through Open Source | Mark Nigge-Uricher | 10m |
Utilities face a practical pitch: use open source to share the digital stack for capacity management so forecasts turn into actionable power‑flow calculations… | ||
| Keynote: Running the Agentic Grid: From Open Models to Operating Model | Yu Jiang | 11m |
Europe needs €584 billion by 2030 and €1.2 trillion by 2040 yet 1,700 GW sit in connection queues and Germany spends €2.8 billion a year on congestion, so the… | ||
| OpenSTEF 4 Launch: A New Way of Building Energy... | Daan van Es, Jan Maarten van Doorn, Paula Passet | 27m |
OpenSTEF 4 offers a modular Lego-block API that separates preprocessing, models, metalearning and backtesting so users swap pieces without reengineering; it… | ||
| PowSyBl: TSO Cooperation Through Building Blocks | Nicolas Omont, Alice Caron, Sophie Frasnedo | 29m |
PowSyBl is a modular Java framework with Python and Julia bindings that manages IIDM grid models, runs Open Load Flow at ~10 ms per run (public benchmark), and… | ||
| From Open-source Models To Production-grade Energy Planning Workflows | Harry van der Weijde | 28m |
More than 200 open-source energy models exist and some (e.g. one with 40,000 monthly downloads) are mature, but adoption needs practical engineering: a… | ||
| PowSyBl: A Service Provider Business Model | Nicolas Omont | 14m |
Artelys positions PowSyBl as production-ready for TSOs: works out-of-the-box on most European IGM (SIM format) and already powers CORESO, TSCnet and Baltic RCC… | ||
| Redispatch Without Black Boxes: Load Forecasting With OpenSTEF at E.ON | Alexander Geiseler | 31m |
E.ON replaces vendor black boxes with an OpenSTEF pipeline that forecasts transformer loads using XGBoost per-transformer models, weekly retraining, weather… | ||
| From Research To Market: The Challenge... | Antonello M, José A, Geethu J, Elissaios S, Ferdinando B | 24m |
A portfolio of concrete outcomes and numbers: an open‑core forecasting engine proving 10% better forecasts for solar and wind and moving into Belgium’s… | ||
| Generation and Load Interconnection Studies in the US Using PowSyBl | Dio Stamatiadis | 12m |
Compares seven open-source packages and selects PowSyBl for operational maturity, integrating it into a platform that separates grid data (Atlas) from study… | ||
| How To Industrialize an Open Source Approach Arou... | Régis Le Drézen, Agnès Triponel, Thomas Besson | 14m |
Sopra Steria embeds PowSyBl into an RTE production program and ships two concrete changes: a redesigned React-agnostic network-viewer that removes framework… | ||
| Closing Gaps From Commercial Tools in German Redisp... | Jordanno de Assuncao Paiva, Tina Sieger, Florian Hassler | 31m |
A lightweight script grows into a companywide data hub that ingests about 6 million measures and 15 GB of raw input daily from 20+ systems, reconciles moving… | ||
| Scaling Grid Security With Open Source | Hugo Pfister, Jorn van der Landen | 29m |
Legacy monolith gives way to a modular pipeline that decouples business logic, presentation, and user interaction and uses standard cloud events and… | ||
| Resilience, Redefined: What Software-Defined Grids Mean for... | Astor C, Sanne V, Lucian B, Jonas B | 39m |
Argues that open source grid tools are already concrete: the power grid model runs large‑scale load flow and planning calculations used for system operation… | ||
| Connecting LF Energy’s Projects: A Mini-City Prototype for the Digital Grid Ecosys... | Darshan Chawda | 31m |
A miniature city-grid prototype connects OpenSTEF/OpenSTEF’s forecasting, OpenGridFM/PowSyBl network checks, and OperatorFabric operator cards to run three… | ||
| Predico: A Collaborative Forecasting Market for the Energy Sector | José Ricardo Andrade | 32m |
Predico runs a daily two-sided market: buyers fund forecasting competitions and multiple suppliers submit forecasts that Predico filters for outliers and… | ||
| Building OSPOs in Practice... | Jonas van den Bogaard, Sven Fritzsche, Geethu Joseph, Hugo Pfister | 30m |
Three grid operators describe building OSPOs from scratch, reporting mostly stage 0–1 maturity work: Cresym runs a recurring OSPA assessment with project teams… | ||
| Selectivity as Code: Closing the Loop Between PowSyBl and SEAPATH | Aurelien Watare, Nevena Popović | 25m |
Claims that PowSyBl can act as a grid engine feeding Scc and Icc into a protection test chain are demonstrated by closing the loop into SEAPATH: PowSyBl… | ||
| How To Orchestrate RL Agents for Topological Remedial Actions Using PowSyBl’s Ope... | Harald Jendrian | 22m |
Combines PowSyBl security analysis with reinforcement learning to produce curative topology reconfigurations for a Simbench EHV network in node‑breaker form… | ||
| How E.ON's OSPO Maps Energy Open Source Projects To Real World U... | Sebastian Grüner, Benjamin Rilz | 29m |
E.ON’s OSPO builds a repeatable evaluation pipeline using the LF Energy landscape and an internal table of lifecycle, contributor health and tech scope to map… | ||
| AINETUS - AI for Safety-Critical Network Infrastructures | Gil Sampaio | 09m |
AINETUS implements a modular AI assistant for power operations that solves power flows using graph neural networks, offers reinforcement learning agents that… | ||
| Grid Enhancement Platform: Operationalizing Open Source for Real-Time, Risk-Aware Gri... | Ankur Arohi | 34m |
Platform claims to turn ensembles into actionable, localized dispatch by running forward-looking network state simulations that output time-series nodal… | ||
| Fast, Lean, Precise, Controlled: Compliance Automation With OSCAL in Our Open-S... | Markus Hillebrand | 30m |
Claims a concrete, developer‑centric pipeline: requirements from NIST/BSI and SSDLC become OSCAL as data, stored in GitHub, linked to components and Jira… | ||
| Towards Industrial Grid Foundation Models With PowSyBl and GridFM | Nicolas Lair, François Mirallès | 08m |
Integration wires PowSyBl and Dynawo into the GridFM data kit so synthetic datasets use industrial formats and solvers: CIM/CGMES/PSS/E input is supported and… | ||
| OpenSynth Dataset Extension - 7K Challenge | Pierre Olivier Cayetanot, Josh Cooney Mercadal | 10m |
An open challenge adds synthetic power injections to the RTE7K grid dataset so researchers can run powerflows: RTE7K: 7,000 nodes, 5‑minute intervals… | ||
| Towards GridFM: GENCO – a Unified Neural Solver for Steady-stat... | Thomas Brunschwiler, Alban Puech | 29m |
GENCO is a GNN-based neural solver that unifies AC power flow, AC optimal power flow and state estimation by representing the grid as a heterogeneous graph and… | ||
| CapEx, OpEx, and Open Source | Michael Dorner, Maximilian Capraro | 31m |
Research finds that regulatory accounting treats open-source creation as OpEx while capital investments remain on the balance sheet, which lowers reimbursement… | ||
| Open Source in an Age of Transformation for the Energy Industry | Raiford Smith, Stijn Depla | 27m |
Google describes concrete results: 35 GW of new clean energy procured since 2010 (12 GW in 2024), AI weather models boost forecast resolution ~5× to ~10 km and… | ||
| From Open Data To Foundation Models: Building GridSFM for Power Grid An... | Andrea Britto Mattos Lima | 33m |
GridSFM delivers an open-source pipeline and foundation model that converts OpenStreetMap, U.S. EIA, U.S. Census and Highfield boundaries into AC-OPF-solvable… | ||
| Asset Thermal Models: Expanding the Family of Thermal Models To C... | Anna Van Velsen, Jesse Tjebbes | 28m |
All primary asset types now get temperature estimates so operators can push capacity safely: a Cable Thermal Model (finite-difference 1D heat equation, soil… | ||
| LF Energy Open Source Benefit-Cost Framework for Grid Operators | Sam Boysel, Dr. Mital Kanabar | 28m |
An open source benefit‑cost framework turns qualitative claims into a spreadsheet model with four components: TCO, Risk, Strategic Value, Societal Value. It… | ||
| EnerGNN: A Graph Neural Network Library for Real-life Complex Energy Systems. | Balthazar Donon | 30m |
EnerGNN is an open-source python package that models full-scale French transmission data with a hyper heterogeneous multigraph and GNNs built on JAX/Flax. It… | ||
| Phlowers: An Ecosystem for Physical Simulations of Overhead Lines | Jérémy Wang, Adrien Goeller | 33m |
Phlowers is an open source ecosystem that actually runs physics: a meca-flowers Python library computes mechanical and geometric cable states, a Stellar… | ||
| Who Builds the Tools? Creating Pathways for Women in Open Sourc... | Tosin George, Ekaterina Fedotova | 22m |
Open-source energy modelling shows a gender and capacity gap, so a new mentorship program builds structured pathways for African women to contribute to real… | ||
| Keynote: Towards a Sovereign Industrial SW Stack in Energy | Rolf Riemenschneider | 15m |
European Commission plans a €200 billion AI fund to scale homegrown cloud and generative-AI capacity and pairs that with an Open Source Strategy that names… | ||
| Keynote: From Energy Sovereignty to Digital Sovereignty | Andreas Prins | 20m |
EU policy links digital sovereignty to increased energy capacity and open source done properly, arguing software control now sits inside the grid. A concrete… | ||
| Keynote: Closing Remarks | Stephan Gross | 02m |
LF Energy is working on a position paper with the community in response to the Commission energy package published this summer and plans to publish it early… | ||
| Building a Multi-Vendor, Software-Defined Substation: Lessons From Red Hat’s VPAC... | Daniel Schaefer | 32m |
Red Hat builds a single-server, cPATH-aligned vPAC demonstrator running ABB VM protection and a containerized U2 Energy vHMI/vRTU side-by-side on isolated CPU… | ||
| Taming the Circus: The Future of Power System Planning Model Interoperability | Karin Wadsac, Bryan Palmintier, Jose Daniel Lara, Nico Rikken, David Paolella, Thomas Bittar | 29m |
Several interoperability projects converge around concrete prototypes: a multimodel framework prototype for reusable workflows, QXT shipping a data schema and… | ||
| Developers ≠ Users: A Blueprint for Building an Open Source User Group Based on... | Robert de Leeuw | 29m |
Open-source EV charging stack Everest reaches roughly half a million charges in the field and faced a four‑year chicken‑and‑egg problem: users won’t engage… | ||
| Protecting a 63 KV Substation on SEAPATH With Multi Vendor Solution... | Florent Carli, Hervé Bigeard | 12m |
Claims that virtual distance protections from ABB and Schneider Electric virtual distance protections run deterministically on a 63 kV substation using the… | ||
| CityLearn for Human-Centered Grid Flexibility | Ava Mohammadi | 10m |
CityLearn v3 is an open-source simulator now in the LF Energy ecosystem that models HVAC, PV, batteries, EV charging and occupant-centric control across… | ||
| From Code To Models-as-Data: GEMS, a High-Level Language for Energy System Modelling | Thomas Bittar | 24m |
GEMS is a graph‑based high‑level language that externalizes equations into YAML configuration files and parses math expressions into ASTs to auto‑generate full… | ||
| Enabling VIED Compatibility on SEAPATH: The SSC600SW Integration Jou... | Aurelian Pop, Erwann Roussy | 10m |
Integration adapts ABB SSC600SW vIED to SEAPATH by supplying ABB disk images, templatized libvirt domain XML and Ansible inventory/playbooks, enabling… | ||
| Testing GEISA Conformance | Kévin L'hôpital | 09m |
GEISA conformance test application validates platform, ADM and API pillars with working test frameworks while the virtual execution environment is not yet… | ||
| Accelerating Grid Digitalisation With Linux-based SEAPATH and Qu... | Jean-Jacques Adragna, Eloi Bail | 13m |
SEAPATH combined with Qualcomm DragonWing delivers an ARM Linux foundation that claims mainline kernel support and available code in the SEAPATH GitHub… | ||
| AI-Audited: An Open Interface for Autonomous DE... | Chris X, Arila B, Tony S, Holger B, Pierre V.-F. | 10m |
Comparative AI audit runs Claude, Mistral and a locally hosted model against microgrid standards (IEEE 2030.5, IEC 61850, CIM, OpenADR 3, ISO 15118, IEEE 1547… | ||
| One Measurement Layer, Many Virtual Substation Functions: RTE and EcoPhi’s 400/22... | Ebrahim Balouji | 18m |
A 400/225 kV substation uses QMU 800 modules as a single measurement layer sampling at 2 MHz and publishing per IEC 61869 to a CMPC 800 edge running… | ||
| Building the Interoperable Edge with GEISA | Michael Stuber | 35m |
GEISA delivers a concrete interoperability spec for meter- and distribution-edge devices, targeting a 1.0 release and already at 0.9; it defines three… | ||
| Open Substation: Building an Open Stack for Digital Substations | Guillaume Tucker | 10m |
Open Substation builds a runnable open-source stack for digital substations by combining SEAPATH hypervisor, OpenEnergyTools IEC61850 (Rust, Apache‑2.0) and a… | ||
| P-SWAMP (power -Stability Wide Area Monitoring Protection) Op... | Geir Harald Borse, Hallvar Haugdal | 30m |
An open-source WAMS R&D platform exists that already ingests Statnett production PMU data and runs live simulations with islanding and oscillation detectors… | ||
| Predicting Grid Faults Before They Happen: AI for Weather-Driven Grid Resilience | Sebastian Gerber | 32m |
P4R converts 50-member weather ensembles stored in Zarr with 50-member ensembles into calibrated probabilistic fault forecasts up to five days ahead, using… | ||
| Automated Checks Before Publishing Open Source, a Few Years La... | Nico Rikken, Leander van der Bijl | 08m |
Alliander reports the original GitHub Actions assembly becomes a single-container pre-commit hook that runs locally or in CI, gives immediate findings during… | ||
| Bridging the Gap: Advancing PyPSA as an Industry-Grade Open Energy Planning Framew... | Fabian Hofmann | 11m |
PyPSA-Taskforce aims to make PyPSA a functional superset of proprietary planning tools and reports a 37-item roadmap with 12 done, 10 in progress. Already… | ||
| OpenEnergyTwin: Building Open, Interoperable Digital Twin Infrastructure for DSO Grid... | Marcel Otte | 25m |
OpenEnergyTwin is an open source, modular digital twin stack that links operational technology to a CIM-based core via protocol adapters and runs services over… | ||
| E4S: Enabling Interoperable Edge Architectures for Secondary Sub... | Sylvain Mathiaud, Erwann Roussy | 25m |
E4S defines a layered edge architecture with a fleet edge node manager, standardized interfaces so DSOs can swap hardware, middleware or apps with minimal… | ||
| Dynaωo for Large-Scale Power System Event Analysis: The 2025 Iberian Blackout | Marco Chiaramello | 29m |
A time‑domain model built from an anonymised snapshot uses Dynaωo and a dynaflow time-domain workflow to reproduce PMU voltages and cross‑border exchanges… | ||
| DT4Energy: Open AI-Driven Digital Twins for Energy Systems... | Ferdinando Bosco, Vincenzo Croce | 24m |
An open framework called DT4Energy implements a concrete DT4EC use case that runs day ahead 24-hour 15-minute forecasts for production and consumption, uses… | ||
| How Grid Operators Can Unlock Asset Flexibility - Integrating... | Nicolas Höning, Nick van der Burgt | 34m |
A production-ready plugin connects FlexMeasures as an OpenADR VEN to an OpenLEADR VTN so DSOs can publish day‑ahead congestion slots that become kilowatt… | ||
| Presenting DyCoV - Streamlining Dynamic Model-validation and Performance Verifica... | Jose Luis Marin | 33m |
DyCoV is an open‑source Python tool that automates grid‑code dynamic compliance and generic RMS model validation by running Dynawo simulations (OpenModelica… | ||
| Testing the Resilience of a SEAPATH Cluster: In Search of Single Points of Failure | Miguel Olivan | 32m |
A three-node SEAPATH cluster is exercised with 36 fault scenarios — about 35 virtual‑machine tests and 11 container tests — injecting failures at cluster… | ||
| Batch N‑1 Power Flow Via Perturbation Methods | Georg Mensah | 34m |
Argues that perturbation/holomorphic‑embedding methods compute high‑order Taylor coefficients once and reuse a single LU factorization to evaluate many N‑1… | ||
| Monitoring Communication Networks of Energy Grids With the Open-source Framework... | Barbara Schraml | 31m |
A hands‑on deployment story of an open source passive monitoring stack that the BSI pushes into critical infrastructure: Malcolm in the middle pairs… | ||
| A Tour of LF Energy's Connected Data Specifications (CDS) | Daniel Roesler | 31m |
CDS publishes draft specifications for server metadata discovery and client registration lifecycle plus a ~300‑page customer data spec; server metadata defines… | ||
| Bringing the Industry Together Through LF Energy - A Power Grid Mode... | Peter Salemink, Udo Schmitz | 19m |
Power Grid Model is a high-performance open-source calculation library for distribution systems that performs power flow, state estimation and short-circuit… | ||
| Pre-Packaging CRA and NIS2 Compliance: The SEAPATH Approach | Mathieu Dupré | 27m |
SEAPATH produces release artifacts and an SBOM alongside each CI-built image, integrates VulnScout into GitHub Actions so vulnerability checks run weekly and… | ||
| Building the World’s First Open Reference Code Base for SunSpec... | Erin M, Tom T, Mark M, Jörgen R | 35m |
An open reference codebase called Project Satori provides two production-grade stacks for SunSpec Modbus and IEEE 2030.5, plus a mobile Satori Scout that scans… | ||
| CIM/CGMES in Real-time Knowledge Graphs for Modern Grid Control Systems | Arne Bernhardt | 32m |
A production-grade RDF-based control platform is already running: Apache Jena-backed in-memory SPARQL servers expose a single SPARQL/SHACL interface used for… | ||
| DC+: A Fast, Voltage-Aware Alternative To DC Load Flow | Benjamin Petrick, Christian Merz | 26m |
A voltage‑sensitive linearization of AC load flow retains voltage magnitudes, angles and reactive power while behaving like a single Newton step around an AC… | ||
| Decommissioning the Kill Switch: Securing the Energy Grid’s... | Rossella Sblendido, Andreas Prins | 33m |
Modernize energy-grid software supply chains by enforcing cryptographically signed SBOMs from source to edge, building reproducible builds so binaries are… | ||
| Closing Gaps From Commercial Tools in German Redisp... | Jordanno de Assuncao Paiva, Tina Sieger, Florian Hassler | 31m |
An internal tool named rep evolves from a one-off script into a data hub that ingests 15 GB/day and reconciles about 6 million measures from roughly 150,000 PV… | ||
| Keynote: Pooling Code, Keeping Control | Nathalie Lemaître, Sébastien Scarmure | 16m |
Dino simulation suite is chosen to analyze the April Iberian blackout, showing open source is now mission‑critical; LF Energy hosts projects used in operations… | ||
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