[NBLUG/talk] September 26 PD article about an open source software organization with local ties - LF Energy

[Brad Morrison]

Hi all,

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 - 
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/open-source-software-company-in-sebastopol-drives-a-clean-energy-superhighw/

"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.

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.

“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.

Today’s grid runs largely on fossil fuels produced by giant power plants 
and delivered by utilities to homes and businesses..."

https://www.lfenergy.org/
<https://www.lfenergy.org/>

Brad
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