The Linux Foundation | 18 December 2025
Foundation updates point to continued growth and heightened value of open source software for energy resiliency
- LF Energy announced 2025 momentum, including new associate members the Centre for Net Zero, the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and Junia, as well as new governing board members from Apple, Microsoft, and Shell.
- The Foundation celebrates multiple new and updated projects, such as the Semantic Energy Framework (SEF), RTC-Tools, and p-SWAMP, as well as success at LF Energy events in Europe and North America.
- This news strengthens LF Energy’s role in accelerating the energy transition by providing long term maintainability, improving interoperability, and enabling utilities with reliable, transparent, and sustainable digital tools.
- Utilities professionals, grid operators, electric vehicle makers, technology vendors, policymakers, researchers, academics, and developers are encouraged to learn more by visiting https://lfenergy.org/.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 18, 2025 – LF Energy, the open source foundation accelerating the energy transition, celebrates significant growth in 2025, including new members, new projects, and record-setting event attendance. These additions to the LF Energy community strengthen the foundation’s mission to build a reliable network of digital assets that deliver affordable, sustainable, and clean energy. New members include the Centre for Net Zero, the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and Junia as associate members and Andy Chu of Apple, Laurent Boinot of Microsoft, and Naresh Kumar Gajendran of Shell as governing board members.
“With an influx of new members from the utility, vendor, research, and academic communities, impactful new technology and standards projects, and growing attendance at our summits, 2025 has been LF Energy’s best year yet,” said Alex Thornton, executive director of LF Energy. “As we look forward to 2026, the staff and governing board are planning a series of new investments and strategies to significantly accelerate the innovation needed for the energy transition. I’m excited about our community’s growth and prosperity in the year ahead.”
New Projects and Key Updates
Over the past year, LF Energy continued advancing the collaborative power of open source software for the digital energy transition, expanding its roster of key projects and fortifying existing initiatives across the energy ecosystem. Key achievements include:
- The creation of the LF Energy Semantic Energy Framework (SEF) – a framework to address closed platforms, incompatible protocols and vendor lock-in within global energy sustainability goals. This framework offers an ontology-agnostic, domain-neutral design to enable semantic data representation, discovery and reasoning across diverse systems.
- The release of RTC-Tools as a new solution for optimization of water and energy systems – a well-established and widely used project, this open source Python package empowers organizations to efficiently manage and optimize their assets, contributing to the efficient management of important resources.
- The establishment of p-SWAMP as a research and development environment for Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control (WAMPACS) – based on a previous Nordic project, the Nordic Early Warning Early Prevention System (NEWEPS), p-SWAMP (Power Stability Wide Area Monitoring Protection) is a facilitator for efficient development of new functionality in WAMPACS, benefitting the power transmission grid overall.
- PowSyBl (Power System Blocks) transitioning to LF Europe – the open source library for power system modeling, visualization, and simulation is moving to LF Europe, while continuing its partnership with LF Energy. PowSyBl’s move marks its next phase of growth as a strategic lever for Europe’s digital sovereignty.
- The release of SEAPATH version 1.2 – the new version provides easier installation, enhanced networking and storage capabilities, and a fully redesigned Wiki to accelerate adoption of open source virtualization for digital substations.
- The release of FlexMeasures version 0.30 – this latest version improves FlexMeasures’ energy forecasting capabilities with support for fixed-viewpoint forecasting, allowing for better real-life analytics and multiple forecasts simultaneously
- The release of OperatorFabric 4.10.0 – designed to improve interoperability and situational awareness across energy systems, this open source platform includes process monitoring improvements, custom screen enhancements, smarter email management, and more.
- The release of CoMPAS 0.25.0 – to better support substation configuration and interoperability within digital grid environments, CoMPAS 0.25.0 enhances version consistency, container deployment stability and compatibility with the evolving Open SCD toolchain in the latest release.
- EcoPhi’s success with SEAPATH for substation monitoring – EcoPhi, a spinout from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, set out to modernize over 200 substation deployments worldwide with software-defined automation. EcoPhi used the LF Energy’s SEAPATH to virtualize key substation monitoring and analytics functions including phasor measurement (PMU), power quality (PQM), disturbance recording (DFR), and partial discharge (PD) on a unified, real-time platform.
- Sigholm use of OpenSTEF for forecasting – Sigholm, a Nordic energy technology, implemented LF Energy’s OpenSTEF as the forecasting engine behind Aurora by Sigholm®. A case study released this week by LF Energy showcases how OpenSTEF supports large scale forecasting for thermal energy production and enhances operational decision making across the Nordic region.
A Growing Community at LF Energy Events
In addition to project success, LF Energy set new records for its events, underscoring community interest in sustainable, clean energy technology. These include:
- A full audience at LF Energy Summit Europe in Germany – LF Energy saw a nearly 50% increase in attendance from 2024, attracting a vibrant crowd of professionals across electric utilities, technology vendors, policy makers, global energy companies, researchers, and more.
- Global participation at the inaugural LF Energy Summit North America in Varennes, Quebec – this one-day summit offered a variety of technical sessions, project deep-dives, and community discussions to attending utility professionals, researchers, and technology developers.
- A successful first Enlit Europe event in Bilbao, Spain – this event brought together members, contributors, and new community participants, showcasing industry enthusiasm for open source collaboration and practical digital grid modernization.
- Dynamic conversations at first-ever LF Energy Seminar in Japan – this event took place at the Lumada Innovation Hub Tokyo, bringing together professionals, engineers, researchers, and more from the energy sector for a day of learning and insights.
Supporting Quotes
“Formalising our relationship with LF Energy marks an exciting milestone for Centre for Net Zero as we build on the collaboration we began in 2024. Together, we look forward to advancing the OpenSynth community as the go-to place for AI-generated and AI-ready grid data, driving open, scalable innovation that helps push fossil fuels out of the energy system.”
– Gareth Jones, Chief Operating Officer, Centre for Net Zero
"By joining LF Energy, Junia aims to bridge the gap between research and real-world applications, share our developments openly, and improve the quality of our contributions through community collaboration. This strategic step will make our innovations accessible, tested, and impactful for all stakeholders, accelerating the energy transition by transforming research into practical solutions."
– Khaled Almaksour, Responsible for Electric Power Management Platform, Junia
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A first-of-its-kind initiative, LF Energy is the community for technologists to co-develop open, industrial-grade technology, standards, and data to deliver affordable, reliable, safe and clean energy. Strategic Members include Alliander, Google, Hydro-Quebec, Microsoft, RTE and Shell, in addition to over 60 General and Associate Members from across the energy industry, technology, academia, and government. Find further information here: https://www.lfenergy.org.
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