LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

As LF Energy SEAPATH adoption continues to grow across the energy ecosystem, making onboarding and first-time evaluation a key topic for new users and contributors.

This session will demonstrate how the SEAPATH community has streamlined the first-user experience to help newcomers get a functional SEAPATH instance running in their lab as quickly and smoothly as possible. Attendees will discover the latest onboarding improvements, including the refactored documentation, the new “Getting Started” experience, the SEAPATH Installer, and the different community resources available through the SEAPATH GitHub ecosystem.

Through a live demonstration, the session will guide users step by step from initial setup to a ready-to-use SEAPATH environment, while highlighting the tools and workflows that simplify experimentation, evaluation, and contribution. The presentation will also share lessons learned from community feedback and explain how these improvements are helping reduce the barrier to entry for industrial-grade virtualization in digital substations.

As the energy sector accelerates its transition toward decentralized power, the need for robust, open-source grid automation has never been greater. LF Energy’s SEAPATH project provides this critical framework, but a resilient platform requires an equally resilient foundation.

In this session, we are thrilled to announce a major milestone: the enablement of SUSE software for the SEAPATH project is officially complete. We will walk through the journey of bringing SEAPATH to the SUSE ecosystem, discussing the technical integration and how leveraging SUSE's enterprise-grade stack provides the security, stability, and lifecycle management that critical energy infrastructure demands.

Key Takeaways:

The Milestone: What the completed SUSE enablement means for the SEAPATH ecosystem and open-source energy innovation.

Under the Hood: How SEAPATH leverages SUSE technologies for optimal performance at the edge.

Real-World Impact: How operators can now confidently deploy mission-critical solutions on this stack.

Join us to see how SEAPATH and SUSE are ready to power the substations of tomorrow!

Building on the successful deployment of R#SPACE, which virtualizes substation automation functions, RTE launched the VIP’R R&D project to address a key question :
Can a 63 kV substation be reliably protected using virtual distance protection functions from different vendors (ABB and Schneider Electric) running on the open-source SEAPATH platform?

This demo will showcase IT and OT tests performed in RTE’s lab to demonstrate the real-time performance and deterministic behavior of the distance protection function within a SEAPATH cluster.
The session will include an open discussion with the audience on the test setup, results, methodology, and tools use with the participation of Schneider Electric.

The tutorial features five presentations from experts contributing to the LF Energy CoMPAS project.

1.Driving CoMPAS Adoption with Better UX
Enhancing user onboarding, reducing training effort and minimizing errors throughout the engineering process.

2. Building an substation specification with CoMPAS
The presentation is focused on the role of top down engineering in Alliander's software defined substation initiative, their steps so far using CoMPAS, their lessons learned and their Outlook.

3. Quality You Can Trust: Raising the Bar for SCL Engineering
Introducing a new validation rules concept for higher SCL quality and efficiency.

4. Designed to Extend: How Developers Shape CoMPAS
Highlighting the design principles, extension points and best practices that enable developers to adapt CoMPAS to specific use cases, without compromising maintainability, upgradability or standards alignment.

5. Extend CoMPAS in Minutes: Build Your First Plugin (Live Coding Session)
By showcasing a real end-to-end example the session aims to demystify the development process, reduce entry barriers and empower new contributors to actively participate in the CoMPAS community.