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May 21, 2026

Making Our Power Grid Sweat – Daniël Kok & Anna Van Velsen, Alliander

Event Recap: LF Energy Summit Europe 2025 TL;DR At LF Energy Summit Europe 2025, Daniël Kok and Anna Van Velsen of Alliander presented how thermal models can help utilities move from static asset limits toward cyclic or dynamic ratings. The session explored how transformer temperature modeling can identify residual grid… Read more.

May 14, 2026

OperatorFabric 4.12.0 Released with Dashboard Enhancements, Email Gateway Updates, and Dependency Upgrades

OperatorFabric 4.12.0.RELEASE is now available. TL;DR: OperatorFabric 4.12.0.RELEASE includes dashboard enhancements, email gateway updates, administration improvements, CLI enhancements, bug fixes, configuration changes, and dependency upgrades. The release also introduces several upgrade-related changes, and a migration guide is available for users upgrading from version 4.11.x. This release introduces enhancements across the… Read more.

May 13, 2026

Emerging Energy Management Use Cases for Car Charging – Hauke Feiertag & Simon Seres

Event Recap: LF Energy Summit Europe 2025 TL;DR At LF Energy Summit Europe 2025, Hauke Feiertag and Simon Seres (chargebyte GmbH) presented how chargebyte is combining the open source EVerest software stack with its own IoT-based energy management platform to support solar charging, dynamic electricity tariffs, and emerging vehicle-to-home and… Read more.

May 7, 2026

Real World Interoperability in EV Charging: The Tooling Stack Behind the EVerest Ecosystem

Event Recap: FOSDEM 2026 TL;DR At FOSDEM 2026, Marco Möller presented how the EVerest open source project approaches interoperability challenges in EV charging through shared software implementations, system-level testing, virtual testing environments, and operational feedback loops. The session explored how EVerest combines protocol implementations, hardware-in-the-loop testing, interoperability events, and federated… Read more.

May 6, 2026

The Grid Doesn’t Wait for a Requirements Document

Hugo Pfister, Manager Grid Security Applications, TenneT Netherlands TL;DR:TenneT shows that embedding software development directly within grid operations, rather than separating “business” and IT, enables faster iteration, better use of domain knowledge, and more effective tooling. Built on the open source PowSyBl framework, this model improves performance while leveraging shared… Read more.