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Press Releases

Jan 12, 2026

LF Energy Battery Data Alliance Announces the Battery Data Format (BDF): A New Open Standard for Battery Data Interoperability

Summary Announcement: LF Energy’s Battery Data Alliance released the Battery Data Format (BDF), an open, community-driven standard for battery data interoperability. Purpose: BDF provides a unified, machine-readable schema and ontology-aligned metadata to make battery data shareable, reproducible, and model-ready across labs, vendors, and software. Ecosystem & Validation: Aligned with BattINFO;… Read more.

Dec 18, 2025

LF Energy Announces New Members, Expanded Governing Board, and Record Event Attendance for 2025

Foundation updates point to continued growth and heightened value of open source software for energy resiliency  SAN FRANCISCO, December 18, 2025 – LF Energy, the open source foundation accelerating the energy transition, celebrates significant growth in 2025, including new members, new projects, and record-setting event attendance. These additions to the… Read more.

Sep 23, 2025

Record Breaking Attendance at LF Energy Summit Europe Drives Open Source Collaboration for the Energy Transition

LF Energy Summit Europe came to Germany for the first time, taking place 10-11 September 2025 in Aachen. The event hosted a record-breaking crowd of 365 stakeholders – a nearly 50% increase from 2024 – from across electric utilities, technology vendors, policy makers, global energy companies, researchers, and more. The… Read more.

Sep 10, 2025

Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Members and Key Advances in Open Source Infrastructure

Charting advancements in security, data, and interoperability for energy innovation AACHEN, GERMANY – LF Energy Summit Europe - 10 September, 2025 – LF Energy, the open source foundation accelerating the energy transition, welcomes five new members from leading technology and energy companies. New general members include EcoFlow, Hitachi, and Red… Read more.

Aug 19, 2025

LF Energy OpenDSM Completes Development of New Hourly Model

The LF Energy OpenDSM project is excited to announce the completion of a new hourly modeling framework for OpenEEmeter, designed to deliver faster, more accurate, and more flexible energy consumption predictions, especially for customers with solar PV. This major update was driven by a set of clear goals: Improve solar… Read more.