LF Energy Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - May 12, 2026
Voting Representative Attendees
Strategic Member Representatives
- Antonello Monti - RWTH Aachen University (Chair)
- Art Pope - Google LLC
- Boris Dolley - RTE (Reseau de Transport dElectricite)
- Sachin Bakhar - Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc.
- Moise Kameni - Hydro-Quebec
- Jonas van den Bogaard - Alliander
Project Representatives
- Clément Bouvier - OperatorFabric Representative
- Peter Mitri - PowSyBl Representative
- Travis Sikes - OpenDSM Representative
- Maarten Mulder - Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF) Representative
Non-Voting Project and Working Group Representatives
- Arila Barnes - Hyphae Representative
- Chris Xie - ORES Representative
- Daniel Roesler - CDS WG1 & 2 Representative
- Gabe Hege - Battery Data Alliance Representative
- Hugo van de Pol - OpenLEADR Representative
- Eloi Bail - SEAPATH Representative
- Frederic Didier - OperatorFabric Representative
- Karl Yang - ORES Representative
- Mark Nigge-Uricher - SAM Representative
- Michael Stuber - GEISA Representative
- Nicolas Höning - FlexMeasures Representative
- Richard Lam - GEISA Representative
- Hugo van der Zwaag - Shapeshifter Representative
- Robert Tusveld - GXF Representative
- Stan Janssen - OpenLEADR Representative
- Thana Paris - CitrineOS Representative
- Tony Xiang - Power Grid Model Representative
- Kjell Petter Myhren - p-SWAMP
- Robert de Leeuw, Edge Flexibility and Interoperability SIG Representative
- Thomas Wisbech, Project Origin Representative
- Milenko Tosic, LFE-SEF Representative
- Ricardo Bessa, AINETUS Representative
LF Staff
- Alex Thornton - LF Energy
- Alexandre Parisot - LF Energy
- Dan Brown - The Linux Foundation
- John Mertic - The Linux Foundation
- Yarille Ortiz - The Linux Foundation
Other Attendees
- Nico Rikken
- Josh Keeling
- Sanket Gaikwad
Meeting Assets
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Agenda
- Opening and General Updates
- Annual Review: OpenDSM #7
- Annual Review: SOGNO #75
- Marketing and PR Updates
- Closing and Next Meeting
Notes
John Mertic called the meeting to order at 8:04 am PT and Yarille Ortiz recorded the minutes.
Opening and General Updates
Mertic reviewed the antitrust policy and introduced the meeting agenda.
Mertic reviewed the TAC and SIG review calendars. Nico Rikken from the OSPO SIG shared that the open-source benefits model report is currently about 80% complete.
Mertic provided project pipeline updates. He noted several projects (ReLife, RAVEN, and EDDIE) are currently in the last stages of the onboarding process. He mentioned EnerGNN was recently approved and Omega Prime has fallen out of the onboarding process due to an unresponsive submitter.
Security Audit Prioritization #408
Mertic shared CoMPAS, Power Grid Model, and OpenSTEF are moving forward, the audits. He shared we are awaiting confirmation from Shapeshifter to confirm if they are interested in participating in the security threat model assessment. The TAC suggested Flex Measures as a strong candidate to encourage adoption.
Security Audit Prioritization #408
Mertic shared CoMPAS, Power Grid Model, and OpenSTEF are moving forward, the audits. He shared we are awaiting confirmation from Shapeshifter to confirm if they are interested in participating in the security threat model assessment. The TAC suggested Flex Measures as a strong candidate to encourage adoption.
Annual Review Reformat #798
Mertic reviewed the proposed adjustments to the annual review template to save time during TAC meetings. Mertic detailed the following process:
- Projects will now be allotted 15 minutes for a high-level overview and Q&A
- Presentation decks must be shared with the TAC at least one week in advance.
- Requests to move up a lifecycle stage must also be communicated a week in advance to allocate appropriate time.
The TAC agreed to these changes and Ortiz stated she would follow with a formal LFX vote. She will pilot the new process with CoMPAS and Grid2OP in the next meeting.
Annual Review: OpenDSM #7
Travis Sikes presented the OpenDSM annual review. He stated the project’s current** **release is v1.2.7. Sikes reported the project has seen heavy adoption and integration.
Sikes provide the following updates:
- Technical Updates: * Successfully rolled out a new hourly model that includes a solar irradiance covariate to accurately measure the impact of solar panels on buildings.
- Added adaptive downweighting of outliers.
- The model is now 5x faster, which is critical for users running it across millions of households.
- Community & Governance: The working group (which peaked at ~50 attendees) is currently on hiatus after the heavy lift of the new model, though the project itself is active. A new consolidated website (opendsm.energy) has been launched for documentation and history.
- Lifecycle Progression: OpenDSM meets most criteria for “Early Adoption” but still needs to formalize a Growth Plan and finalize the OpenSSF Best Practices Badge (currently at 87% silver).
Annual Review: SOGNO #75
The SOGNO annual review will be rescheduled due to a conflict with the presenter.
Marketing and PR Updates
Dan Brown shared marketing and PR updates. Brown encouraged projects to sign up to host webinars. Brown announced in-person meetups include Power Grid Model, SEAPATH, and Operator Fabric.
Brown said a newly published TenneT case study has been highly successful and engaging and shared that blog recaps of videos from the last Summit and FOSDEM are ongoing. Brown also announced new project page templates are rolling out on lfenergy.org.
He provided an update on the LF Energy Summit (Berlin, Sept) and said the Call for Proposals (CFP) closes May 25 with no extensions granted. He notified the TAC that the space for project meetups/workshops is extremely limited, so interested projects must reach out immediately.
Closing and Next Meeting
Mertic presented the agenda for the next meeting of the LF Energy TAC, scheduled for 9 June 2026 at 8:00 a.m. US Pacific Time/11:00 a.m. US Eastern Time/5:00 p.m. Central European Time.