<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Neat! I didn't realize LF Energy had a local connection. <a href="https://eeweather.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">EEweather</a> looks potentially useful, and I'd heard of the statistical approach to computing avoided energy use, but didn't realize there was an open implementation in <a href="http://eemeter.openee.io/">EEmeter</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>---Tom<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 5:09 AM, Brad Morrison wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Hi all, </span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">While I spend a lot of
time writing about PG&E and solar, it is nice to see the
Press Democrat do a story on an open source software player in
the utility world - <a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/open-source-software-company-in-sebastopol-drives-a-clean-energy-superhighw/" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/open-source-software-company-in-sebastopol-drives-a-clean-energy-superhighw/</a></span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">"The 21st century
electricity grid must be a swift superhighway where electrons
and data zip in nanoseconds to where they’re needed, in contrast
to today’s hodgepodge of proprietary toll roads that barely talk
to each other.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">That’s the vision that
drives Shuli Goodman, the executive director of LF Energy, an
international organization she founded in 2019 to build the
foundation for that superhighway.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">“The power grid is the
biggest, most sophisticated machine on the planet. We have to
figure this out fast, to insure a smooth economic and social
transition,” Goodman said during a recent conversation at her
Sebastopol home.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Today’s grid runs
largely on fossil fuels produced by giant power plants and
delivered by utilities to homes and businesses..."</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><a href="https://www.lfenergy.org/">https://www.lfenergy.org/</a></span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Brad</span><br></p></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>