Linux Foundation Energy is a vendor-neutral, non-profit organization that brings together energy producers, utilities, end users, academia, government and the technology industry to collaboratively develop technology solutions – including software solutions, standards, and specifications – for the energy sector to speed decarbonization and the energy transition generally.

The digitalization of power systems enables the abstraction of the world’s largest machine into composable software defined infrastructure. Digitalization also means that operators can “network electrons” by orchestrating the metadata about an electron in ways never before possible. Digitalization facilitates a radically energy-efficient future. When every electron counts, renewable and distributed energy provides humanity with the tools to address climate change by decarbonizing the grid, powering the transition to e-mobility, and supporting the urbanization of world populations.

LF Energy builds communities to develop open technologies, frameworks, reference architectures, and research to alleviate pain points and identify the most urgent priorities to digitally transform the energy sector. This includes cybersecurity, interoperability, control, automation, virtualization, flexibility, and digital orchestration for balancing of supply and demand, which cannot be solved by legacy, proprietary solutions.