Solve today’s grid problem and build tomorrow’s capability
Alliander, Hydro-Québec, RTE, and Southern California Edison are among the grid operators already co-developing open source software for the grid at LF Energy.
Built in the open, governed neutrally, with no single vendor in control
Start fast. Go far.
You have business problems to solve now, and strategic goals to achieve later. Open source meets you on both.
Start fast. Begin from production-ready foundations, not a blank page or a multi-year procurement. No RFP, no license, no fee to evaluate, prototype, or pilot. Prove value in your own environment, then bring in a vendor to support it when you are ready.
Go far. You are not buying a product that expires with a vendor’s roadmap. You are investing in shared infrastructure the community maintains together, and in capability that stays inside your own organization. Owning, not renting.
TenneT did exactly this.
It built a transmission security solution on PowSyBl, an LF Energy project, and cut its grid security calculations roughly 10x faster, in five months, with no licensing costs.
Built to be depended on
Open source becomes grid infrastructure when the hard parts around it are handled. LF Energy provides them.
- Neutral governance. No single company controls the roadmap. Decisions serve the industry, not one vendor’s strategy.
- Legal, IP, and security frameworks. Built to Linux Foundation and OpenSSF standards, with funded independent audits for key projects.
- Code you can see. Inspect it, audit it, and patch it yourself, rather than waiting on one vendor’s release cycle.
- A community of practitioners. Operators, utilities, and vendors shipping real systems, learning from each other across geographies.
This is the same model the Linux Foundation has used to turn open source into dependable infrastructure across critical, regulated industries.