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Mar 5, 2024

FOSDEM 2024 Recap – Power to the People – Technology for Access to Energy

At the FOSDEM 2024 Energy Devroom, a session titled "Power to the People - Technology for Access to Energy" shed light on the crucial intersection of open source technology and energy access, presented by Vivien Barnier of the EnAccess Foundation and Martin Jäger of Libre Solar (video follows below). The… Read more.

Mar 4, 2024

FOSDEM 2024 Recap – OpenSCD: Bridging the Gap in Substation Communication

In the dynamic landscape of energy management, ensuring seamless communication between intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) within electrical substations is paramount. At FOSDEM 2024's Energy Devroom, Tamás Russ, a software engineer and lead of domain development at SprintEins, shed light on OpenSCD—a transformative tool designed to address this very challenge (video… Read more.

Mar 4, 2024

LF Energy and CRESYM Partner to Enhance Digitalization of Energy Systems Through Open Source

Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy), the open source foundation focused on harnessing the power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to decarbonize our energy systems, is joining forces with CRESYM to accelerate and support the development of open source technologies to enhance the digitalization of energy systems. CRESYM is a… Read more.

Mar 1, 2024

FOSDEM 2024 Recap: Unleashing the Power of Flexibility with Shapeshifter: A Universal Flex Trading Protocol

In a session in the FOSDEM 2024 Energy Devroom, Tom Wetjens from EDSN and Hugo van der Zwaag from Enexis took the audience on a journey through the innovative LF Energy project "Shapeshifter" (video follows below). This groundbreaking initiative aims to revolutionize the energy sector by addressing grid congestion and… Read more.

Feb 29, 2024

FOSDEM 2024 Recap – OpenSTEF: Open Short Term Energy Forecasting

In a session in the FOSDEM 2024 Energy Devroom, Jonita Ruiter, representing Alliander, took the stage to introduce OpenSTEF, an LF Energy initiative in the realm of short-term energy forecasting (video follows below). Here's a brief overview of the key takeaways from the session: Introduction to OpenSTEF Ruiter, serving as… Read more.