Attendees :

• Jos Zenner

• Nicolas Plantis

• Ionut Deaconeasa

• Jan Hille

• George Karamanis

• Yair Podemsky

• Eloi Bail

• Christophe Villemer

• Sander Jansen

• George Olague

• Ricardo Olsen

• Thierry Godart

• Peter Hemmer

• Daniel Knuppe

• Alexander Lougovski

• Yarille Ortiz

• Aurélien Wataré

• Daniel Schaefer

• Guilhermme Lisboa

• Maxime Pelletier

• Mederic de la Houssaye

• Talal

• Jeff Hoskins

• Karim Dioury

• Alexis Kuphal

• Diego Buffa

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction to the Digital Substation SIG

• Annual review of the SEAPATH project

• Introduction to E4S

• Update on CoMPAS and FledgePower

Welcome and introduction to the Digital Substation SIG

Introduction from Jos Zenner. Jos introduced the principle of annual review for LFE projects.

SEAPATH Annuel Review

Eloi Bail, TSC Chair of LFE SEAPATH started introducing SEAPATH and the TSC Voting Members

Then, he highlighted the different organizations that are contributing, whether directly or via sponsorship

Current LFE project stage is "Early Adoption". To access the next stage (Graduated), more organizations must be involved in the contribution

Among contributors and/or users, we can identify utilities, vendors or software companies

Key achievements :

• Imminent release of SEAPATH v1.0

• Use of SEAPATH in production

• Additionnal players evaluating SEAPATH (including utilities in France, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany)

• Cybersecurity Audit released

• Integration of vendors to SEAPATH

• RedHat showing interest to the project

In 2024, many presentations of SEAPATH have been performed especially during LFE Summit, ENLIT Europe or through webinars.

Finally, Eloi presented SEAPATH growth plan including :

• more interaction with TSC voting members

• more utilities involved

• third party integration

Finally Eloi listed a few points that could help to reach the next stage (governance, promotion, support)

Following this review, there was a Q/A session :

Is there an interest to create a wiki page; listing all possible usecases from utilities or vendors ?
The
-> Maxime Pelletier is willing to start with RTE usecase.

This annual review was closed with the statement that the project remains in the adoption phase for now.

Introduction to E4S

From Ionut Deaconeasa, General Secretary of the E4S Alliance.

E4S stands for "Edge for Smart Secondary Substations Systems "

This is not a commercial entity. E4S Alliance's goal is to define standards-based, open, interoperable, and secure architecture that addresses both the technical and business challenges faced by utiliities;
iIt issues a set of specifications, from HW to the application level, for Secondary Substation System

E4S is willing to work together with LFE ecosystem to integrate, E4S providing the skeleton and LFE projects with the providers provinding the muscles.

60 companies are waiting to join. An update will be provided beginning of April

Roadmap : v2.0 of the specifications will be released before ENLIT 2025 in Bilbao. This should be public.

Update on CoMPAS

Update from Sander Jansen, from Alliander : Added back up services, security patches as well as more plugins to the current system

Events

A few upcoming events have been highlighted. Attendees have mentionned if they would participate as an exhibitor or a visitor.

• SmartGrid Tech in Amsterdam - 18th to 20th March 2025

• Distributech in Dallas, US - 24th to 27th March 2025

• PAC World in Glasgow - 23rd to 26th June 2025

• CIGRE Norway - 12th to 15th May 2025

• CIGRE Montreal, CA - September

• CIGRE Japan - 30th June to 6th July 2025

• CIRED - Geneva - 16th to 19th June 2025

It has been mentionned by Alex Thornton that cost sharing could be considered when several companies are participating to an event to promote LFEnergy projects.