Energy underpins modern life—our homes, businesses, hospitals, and transportation all depend on affordable, reliable power. Yet the traditional approach of building more physical infrastructure is too slow and too expensive. Permitting delays, supply chain constraints, and capital costs mean we cannot simply build our way out.
Why LF Energy
The Only Path Forward
Digital optimization – using software and data to extract maximum value from physical infrastructure – is the only way to simultaneously address affordability, reliability, safety, and decarbonization. But the energy sector’s digital infrastructure has not kept pace.
Most utilities face similar challenges: expensive, siloed systems that don’t interoperate well, slow implementation timelines, dependence on vendor roadmaps, and duplicated effort solving the same problems independently.
Why Collaboration Works
Other industries have already learned this lesson. AWS, Microsoft, and NVIDIA work with Dreamworks and Disney through the Academy Software Foundation. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan collaborate through FINOS. T-Mobile and Verizon work with Nokia and Qualcomm through LF Networking.
These industries share investment in foundational building blocks, pieces that everyone needs but that provide no competitive advantage when built alone. This frees resources for what matters most to each organization.
Why LF Energy
LF Energy is where the energy sector builds digital infrastructure together. Unlike research organizations that produce papers, or proprietary solutions that create supply chain dependencies, we deliver:
- Working code, not just reports
- Neutral governance—no single company controls the roadmap
- Production-grade security through funded audits and OpenSSF requirements
- A community of practitioners who ship real solutions
We meet organizations wherever they are on their open source journey—whether you’re just starting to use open source tools or ready to lead project development.
