LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

Open source tools can improve transparency, collaboration, and speed in energy system planning, but real adoption requires more than publishing code. Drawing on work with system operators and energy institutions in Europe and Africa, this session shares practical lessons on turning open source models, data, and software into trusted planning workflows that organisations can use, maintain, and scale.

The session will focus on the transition from promising open source projects to production grade use in institutional planning contexts. It will cover the technical foundations needed for adoption, including enterprise grade applications, interoperability with existing tools, planning grade data infrastructure, reproducibility, and comparability across studies. It will also cover the institutional foundations: governance, maintenance, sustainable funding, long term support, training, and local capacity building.

The central argument is that adoption depends not only on code quality, but on trust. Energy institutions need confidence that open source workflows can integrate into existing processes, remain reliable over time, and be supported by credible communities and organisations.