Sep 10, 2025

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

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 Hat and associate members include INESC TEC and Energy IoT Open Source. The Foundation also experienced a wave of momentum; including a major security audit for PowSyBl, an updated report on the impact of open source on vertical industries including energy, and new feature releases across several open source LF Energy projects. Together, these developments reflect a deepening of LF Energy’s role in delivering secure, interoperable and globally recognized open source infrastructure for the energy sector. 

“The momentum we are seeing at LF Energy underscores the important role for open technical collaboration to play in the digital energy transition. With new members joining, critical security audits completed, and increasing contributions to open source projects, our community is proving that collaboration can deliver the secure, interoperable, and innovative digital infrastructure the energy sector urgently needs. Together, we are building the digital infrastructure to deliver affordable, safe, reliable and clean energy.” – Alex Thornton, Executive Director, LF Energy

Strengthening the Foundation: PowSyBl Security Audit
LF Energy published a comprehensive security audit for PowSyBl, conducted by Ada Logics and coordinated by OSTIF (Open Source Technology Improvement Fund), reinforcing the project's suitability for real-world deployment. Over a five-week period (March-April 2025), the audit included threat modeling, manual review of 13 repositories, and integration of over 50 API fuzz tests into Google’s OSS-Fuzz. Nine issues were identified and resolved, such as: three of moderate severity (including Polynomial ReDoS, XXE/SSRF, and insecure deserialization) and six low-severity validation and error-handling concerns – enhancing PowSyBl’s resilience. Ongoing security testing is now in place through OSS-Fuzz integration.

Updated Report Explores Impact of Open Source on Vertical Industries Including Energy
“Software-Defined Vertical Industries: Transformation Through Open Source”, sponsored by LF Energy and LF Networking, analyzes how vertical industries have become increasingly software-defined thanks to open source technologies. The report serves as a guide for how industries – including energy – that are still in the early stages of digital transformation can accelerate their progress and increase innovation by adopting and contributing to open source.

Project Updates and Feature Releases

  • EVerest added important new capabilities that make the open source EV charging software stack more robust, accessible, and production-ready thanks to a large code contribution from LF Energy member Pionix. The code was previously part of Pionix’s EVerest-based proprietary solution, Basecamp, and includes pre-certified drivers to support a wider range of devices. It additionally adds ready-made development tools, Yocto layers, over-the-air update mechanisms, and advanced security features such as TPM 2.0 support and X.509-signed updates. These additions help developers reduce integration work, accelerate time-to-market, and maintain strong security assurances.
     
  • OpenSynth is expanding beyond demand data, now including RTE7000. The first candidate of the detailed topology dataset covered the French transmission grid to enable a richer system modeling, synthetic data generation, and AI innovation across energy sectors. Future data drops are planned.
     
  • Battery Data Alliance released the largest open source dataset to date formatted in the Battery Data Format. Generated from an autonomous robotic battery materials research platform, this landmark dataset delivers a new benchmark for high-quality, machine-readable battery data and global research collaboration.
     
  • OperatorFabric v4.8.0 offers enhanced custom screen functionality, including selectable text, horizontal scrolling, improved error handling, date-range pickers, multiselect enhancements, and notification configuration improvements. The release also includes UI and backend dependency updates.
     
  • FlexMeasures v0.27 introduces multi‑asset scheduling which allows simultaneous optimization of multiple flexible devices and two‑factor authentication (2FA), reinforcing both functionality and platform security. Additional updates include data uploads, user management via UI, and role-based editing.
     
  • Power Grid Model v1.12.0 brings support for current sensors in state estimation, full observability checks for radial grids, bug fixes, performance boosts, enhanced documentation, along with a note that macOS versions earlier than 13.4 are no longer supported.
     
  • PowSyBl Dependencies v2025.1.0 concludes the latest release train with improvements in load flow accuracy, sensitivity analysis, dynamic modeling, and security margins. The release also includes fixes resolving all vulnerabilities identified in the recent audit.

Upcoming LF Energy Events

LF Energy Summit North America takes place October 3 in Montreal, providing opportunities for collaboration and innovation. Additionally, LF Energy is partnering with the TODO Group to co-host OSPOlogy Live Lyon from November 5-6, advancing discussions on open source program office strategies across industries.

Supporting Quotes

“Joining LF Energy allows us to bring EcoFlow’s advanced energy solutions to the open-source community, sharing technologies that make energy independence achievable for every household,” said Edison Tuo, Director of AIoT at EcoFlow. “Through this collaboration, we aim to accelerate the development of scalable, decarbonized energy systems and continue our mission to power a new world.”

“We are excited to collaborate with LF Energy to advance secure AI capabilities and OSPO best practices in the energy sector while fostering synergies with other LF initiatives such as CNCF and the TODO Group,” said Yuichi Nakamura, Head of OSPO, Hitachi, Ltd.

"Red Hat is proud to join LF Energy to accelerate the modernization of the world's power grids through open source innovation,” said Kelly Switt, Head of Industrial Business Red Hat. “We believe the challenges of decarbonization and grid stability require a collaborative, open approach to technology, and we are committed to bringing our expertise to the forefront of this effort."

“Open source is core for INESC TEC’s mission to accelerate research and innovation in sustainable energy systems,” said Alexandre Lucas of INESC TEC. “We actively contribute software that enables researchers, operators, and industry to experiment, prototype, and deploy digital solutions with trust and transparency. At INESC TEC we believe that open source research shortens the time between development and practical application, creates adoption volume, reduce reliance on proprietary solutions, while at the same time we mature a collective vision with our partners. Joining LF Energy strengthens our commitment to building secure, interoperable, and community-driven tools that power the energy transition worldwide.”

"Energy IoT is excited to partner with LF Energy, as this collaboration directly accelerates our mission to deliver scalable, resilient, and equitable microgrid solutions,” said Arila Barnes, Founder & CEO of Energy IoT Open Source. “We bridge what LF Energy and others like enAccess offer in this space to bring hands-on experience and continuity to the local communities via LFX Mentorships and Open Source labs."

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