LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

Several related power system planning model interoperability initiatives will share their latest progress, challenges, and real-world applications, including consideration of the differing needs of different end users. Panelists will discuss the potential to align efforts and the challenges and opportunities in delivering both a more effective and more streamlined future modeling experience for end users, from grid operators to energy ministries to civil society. Presenters will cover where models overlap, where models diverge, and what the realistic boundaries are for interoperability, and will invite participants to consider which standards will likely align and which will remain distinct, both in the electricity/TSO/DSO domain and in the sector coupling/multi-commodity domain. Session panelists and participants will discuss the anticipated ways that system planning modeling will change in the next decade and how to future-proof interoperability.

Participants may include: NLR (Sienna/GDM), Princeton (GenX), VTT/Nodal Tools (CESM), TU Berlin (PyPSA), OET, Encoord, TZ, RTE, AFRY, Recognis, EPRI, Imperial College (OSeMOSYS), ENTSO-E, SOPTIM (CGMES), Sylvan