LF Energy

Maybe you have heard of the Smart Grid on the news or from your energy provider. But not everyone knows what the grid is, let alone the Smart Grid. "The grid," refers to the electric grid, a network of transmission lines, substations, transformers and more that deliver electricity from the power plant to your home or business. It’s what you plug into when you flip on your light switch or power up your computer. Our current electric grid was built in the 1890s and improved upon as technology advanced through each decade. 

Source: https://www.smartgrid.gov/the_smart_grid/smart_grid.html

WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE?

Open source" means that the software code is publicly available so that anyone can contribute to the code base and create add-on extensions. This enables the growth of a market of providers that can offer hosting and add-on functionalities that can be utilized by all SEED Platform™ users. More information about open source principles can be found at the Open Source Initiative.

Source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/open-source-strategy

In this issue: the battle over hydropower in India, Norway’s boom in European power exports, questioning Europe’s energy transition success, and more.

While India has historically embraced coal power, its recent moves to invest more heavily in hydrogen have created some optimism that the world’s fastest-growing economy will come to rely on more renewable power in the future. However, this push has been met with fierce opposition, from environmental groups pointing to the significant damage caused by such dams in the Himalayas, and dismay from Pakistan that India is looking to exploit waterways that run between the countries in order to exert control over its neighbour.

Source: https://www.power-technology.com/features/indias-hydro-conflict-new-issue-of-future-power-technology-out-now/

Linux Foundation and the Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance (NGMN) have signed an MoU for formal collaboration regarding end-to-end 5G and beyond.

Creating and providing open, scalable building blocks for operators and service providers is critical to the industry adoption of 5G and beyond. Therefore, the collaboration between NGMN and the Linux Foundation will focus on end-to-end 5G architecture and beyond 5G.

Source: https://www.tfir.io/linux-foundation-joins-hands-with-ngmn-to-focus-on-end-to-end-5g-and-beyond/

LF Energy announced yesterday two initiatives to accelerate its mission to decarbonize the world's economies through software, collaboration, and leveraged development. One initiative is called SOGNO (Service-based Open-source Grid Automation Platform for Network Operation of the future) – a project creating plug-and-play, cloud-native microservices to implement the next generation of data-driven monitoring and control systems, the LF Energy said.

The second initiative is PSNO (Power System Network Operations) – an end-user, utility-driven working group that is defining an open-source strategy and approach to the "control room of the future," it added. LF Energy is a Linux Foundation project seeking to speed up the energy transition of the world's power and transportation systems through open-source technology.

Source: https://www.smartgridtoday.com/public/LF-Energy-starts-2-initiatives-to-decarbonize-Earth.cfm

Building on its groundbreaking initiative, the Linux Foundation’s LF Energy announced it has introduced a Service-based Open-source Grid automation platform for Network Operation of the Future (SOGNO) and Power System Network Operations (PSNO) designed to advance energy automation and hardware virtualization.

The LF Energy project provides a 21st-century plan of action to solve climate change through open frameworks, reference architectures, and a support ecosystem of complementary projects, seeking to accelerate the energy transition of the world’s power and transportation systems through open-source technology.

Source: https://www.iotevolutionworld.com/iot/articles/448576-open-minds-open-source-linux-foundation-lf-energy.htm