Collaborate with your customers, compete on your product
The utilities you sell to are developing open source software for the grid. Build alongside them, and turn shared infrastructure into your advantage.
Your customers and your peers, in a neutral home no single vendor controls
Grow your market
A shared foundation covers the layer every vendor has to build anyway, freeing your R&D for what sets you apart.
- Lower build cost. Start from vetted, community-maintained components, not a blank page.
- More opportunities. Interoperability lets utilities adopt your best component on its own, opening deals you’d never win as an all-or-nothing stack.
- Shorter sales cycles. Building on a foundation utilities already trust eases evaluation and procurement.
- Neutral ground. LF Energy’s governance and IP frameworks keep the foundation open and fair for everyone building on it.
Build what the market actually wants
This is co-development with your customers, not guesswork.
- Real requirements. When utilities shape a project in the open, the foundation reflects real operational needs, not your best guess.
- De-risked bets. Build knowing your customers are already invested in the same foundation.
- A roadmap you help set. Shape the shared layer so it fits how your product works.
- Early signal. See where utility requirements are heading before they reach an RFP.
GE Vernova did exactly this.
It built virtualized protection and control with National Grid Electricity Transmission on SEAPATH, an LF Energy project, holding 4 to 5 milliseconds round-trip latency on GOOSE protection schemes and running more than 25 sampled value streams on a single virtual machine.
Membership turns presence into position
Every project is free to use. Membership is for vendors ready to turn participation into market position.
- Visibility. LF Energy marketing, events, and case studies put your products in front of utility buyers.
- Network. Direct relationships with utility members, your current and future customers.
- Influence. At the Strategic tier, help shape which problems the ecosystem takes on next.
It scales from startup to global, so the entry point fits your company.