The Linux Foundation announced OpenGrid, a new initiative hosted by the foundation that aims to build open data and interoperability infrastructure for power grid planning. Rather than replacing existing planning software, OpenGrid provides a shared layer of open standards and schemas, programmatic APIs and a Data Hub of validated, model-ready datasets so commercial and open source tools can work together, with a first lighthouse application called the OpenGrid Translator planned for release in 2027. The foundation cited more than 2,500 gigawatts of generation and storage projects stuck in grid connection queues and the need to more than double annual grid investment past 600 billion dollars by 2030, arguing that fragmented data and incompatible, costly modeling tools shut many institutions out of planning. Chair Alice Yake of Breakthrough Energy GRIDS said too many plans currently rely on data others cannot verify and tools much of the world cannot afford, and the foundation says it will expand the ecosystem over time to include open solvers, no-code interfaces and AI-assisted data preparation.
Linux Foundation launches OpenGrid to build open infrastructure for the electric grid
The Linux Foundation announced OpenGrid, a new initiative hosted by the foundation that aims to build open data and interoperability infrastructure for power grid planning. Rather than replacing existing planning software, OpenGrid provides a shared layer of open standards and schemas, programmatic APIs and a Data Hub of validated, model-ready datasets so commercial and open source tools can work together, with a first lighthouse application called the OpenGrid Translator planned for release in 2027. The foundation cited more than 2,500 gigawatts of generation and storage projects stuck in grid connection queues and the need to more than double annual grid investment past 600 billion dollars by 2030, arguing that fragmented data and incompatible, costly modeling tools shut many institutions out of planning. Chair Alice Yake of Breakthrough Energy GRIDS said too many plans currently rely on data others cannot verify and tools much of the world cannot afford, and the foundation says it will expand the ecosystem over time to include open solvers, no-code interfaces and AI-assisted data preparation.
Source: Linux Foundation