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Aug 11, 2026
Next-Gen Customer Data Access: How CDS is Transforming Utility Connectivity
By Daniel Roesler, CDS Customer Data Working Group (WG3) Maintainer Previously, the LF Energy Connected Data Specifications (CDS) project announced its Registration framework for revolutionizing how utilities and other central entities provide automated connectivity to the grid of the future. Today, after multiple years of collaborative development, and taking lessons… Read more.
Aug 3, 2026
Global adoption of Power Grid Model surpasses 10 million downloads
The LF Energy Power Grid Model (PGM) project has reached a major milestone: over 10 million downloads worldwide. What started as an internal grid calculation engine at Alliander has grown into a widely used open source solution, supporting organizations, researchers, and developers across the global energy sector. Today, Power Grid… Read more.
Jul 30, 2026
A New Era for Grid Connectivity: Announcing the CDS Registration Specifications
By Daniel Roesler, CDS Registration Working Group (WG1) Maintainer After years of collaborative development, I'm thrilled to announce the first published drafts of the LF Energy Connected Data Specifications (CDS) Registration protocols. These foundational specifications mark a critical step forward for how the energy industry establishes secure, scalable, and automated… Read more.
Jul 20, 2026
Welcome Stephan Gross, LF Energy’s New Community Director for Europe
We're thrilled to announce that the LF Energy team is continuing to grow! Please join us in welcoming Stephan Gross as our new Community Director, Europe. Stephan joins LF Energy from EU DSO Entity, where he served as Senior Technical Advisor focused on network planning and digitalization. Over a decade… Read more.
Jul 16, 2026
PowSyBl Release Train Complete
PowSyBl has completed its latest release train, bringing together new versions across the repositories that work together within the platform. Together, these releases introduce updates spanning network modelling, load flow, sensitivity analysis, remedial action optimisation, ENTSO-E functionality, dynamic simulation, and diagrams. The release of powsybl-dependencies 2026.1.0 concludes the train. The… Read more.
