SIG - 2024-11-12 - Meeting Minutes

Attendees :

  • Jos Zenner

  • Rafael Bonet Scheffer

  • Shubham Gundekar

  • Eloi Bail

  • Nicolas Plantis

  • Casper Tak

  • Mark G Daus

  • Yarille Ortiz

  • Aurélien Wataré

  • Sander Jansen

  • Maxime Pelletier

  • Theodor Jonsson

  • Jeison Camargo

  • Guilhermme Lisboa

  • Antonio Capone

  • Alexander Lougovski

  • Edwin Melenhorst

  • Jeff Hoskins

  • Juergen Harrmann

  • Miguel Fuertes

  • Daniel Lazaro

Welcome and introduction to the Digital Substation SIG

Jos welcomed new participants

Discussion about general agenda points for next meetings

Key points to be reviewed for every meetings have been agreed :

  • Updates from the projects (SEAPATH, FledgePOWER, CoMPAS)

  • Updates about adoption from Utilities and others  -> Maxime Pelletier suggested to provide RTE point of view regarding open source projects adoption (successes & difficulties)

Project Updates

SEAPATH

Eloi Bail provided the update on SEAPATH project.
-> On track for the first official release by the end of the year along with commercial support
Eloi Bail will go to Amsterdam on 10th-11th Dec to talk about SEAPATH in the context of the CRA (cybersecurity) along with Linux Foundation Europe and OpenSSF experts

CoMPAS -

New release has been done to extend the functionalities.

FledgePower

No one in the meeting to provide an update

Projects Review

Next one is Seapath, planned on 2024-12-10
Eloi is not available on 10th Dec -> Moved to January 14th

Build an Ecosystem

LinkedInChannel Digital Substation SIG

Jos suggested to create a dedicated LinkedIn Channel to give visibility to activities linked to this SIG
Casper Tak proposed his help to setup the page
Several participants are OK to feed this page

Commercial Offering

Will be hosted on a dedicated sub-webpage managed by LFEnergy. The technical part will be discussed with Dan Brown.

Several participants are willing to having a presentation of their commercial offer on this page.

Nicolas from SFL suggested to have a more detailed view than the exemple provided by Welotech

Integrations

Between SEAPATH and FledgePOWER

SEAPATH is an hypervisor where any virtual machine can be run (not only FledgePOWER)
A discussion has been hold between Eloi Bail and Daniel Lazaro to talk about SEAPATH and FledgePower integration.

-> A new section will be added on the SEAPATH wiki to explain simply how to integrate it

CoMPAS and FledgePOWER

No integration work so far. Can be a topic for next year.

SEAPATH and CoMPAS

Alliander is installing SEAPATH. They need a better understanding of the SEAPATH project to assess integration topics.

Other Questions

Question from Eloi Bail : Does it make sense to promote LFE projects during the shows, as a group and not only as companies?

Welotec is receiving well this suggestion as they will be exhibiting at SmartGrid Forum and Distributech.

Closing

Next meeting on Dec 10th, 4 to 5 pm CET

  • Updates on FledgePOWER and CoMPAS

  • Adoption of SEAPATH and other projects from RTE

  • Update on the webpage to display commercial offers