OpenSTEF collaborations leads

Idea

This stage is for organizations for who OpenSTEF could be of interest, but there are themselve not yet aware with the power grid model.

• LFE Gridlab-D
• Enedis (? not concrete yet)
• Stanford (Neural prophet)

Awareness

This is the first stage and is called the “awareness” stage because it’s where people first become aware of the OpenSTEF.

Interest

Once a prospect has learned about OpenSTEF, they will evaluate it based on the level of interest and what it could bring.

• VandeBron
• TenneT
• EIGEN
• Stedin
• Enexis

Decision

Now that the prospect knows about OpenSTEF and the solutions it provides for the prospect’s pain points and they decided to going to use it or contribute to it.

Action

The most important stage of the funnel — they are using or contributing to OpenSTEF

• Alliander
• RTE
• RTE international
• Shell

• LFE SOGNO

• Firan
• Sigholm

Explore collaboration opportunities

Update 20230220; discussed Extreme Value forecasting with expert from Shell. Collaboration in progress (backtesting, quantile forecasts). Follow-up meetings planned as part of this project.

Define a 1-year collaboration project → kick-off is planned for dec15th; OpenSTEF will be presented to serve as forecast tooling in this concrete project.
Possible use cases;

• Transport / E-program prognoses
• Balance microgrid / smart appliances behind the meter on their Energy Campus, based on forecast of renewable generation & consumption deliverd by OpenSTEF

Possible additions to OpenSTEF: forecasting extreme values and/or extreme weather

20231002; the same people of shell are joining AIFES

Update 20230223; Proposal was accepted; project starts ~first week of March, until (and including) Q3. Repo to share results: https://github.com/alliander-opensource/AIFES/

Define a 3-year collaboration project, together with universities

Proposal for first 6mnths presented halfway nov; expected response ~half december

Project EIGEN: https://www.alliander.com/nl/nieuws/project-eigen-gestart-dat-bijdraagt-aan-het-versnellen-van-de-energietransitie/. They have multiple goals. One of the goals is to setup an energy hub platform. I have been advising them where open source could help. One of the opportunity I advised to them is to use OpenSTEF for the forcasting needs and except them to follow-up on this advise
20231002; Jonas has a meeting soon and expects an update

Jan Maarten will give a talk end of November for 10-20 DSO's

20231002; Frank: Stedin want to join AIFES and investigate using OpenSTEF for their internal forecasting usecases. Meeting them 20231006 at 'congestion management symposium'.

Frank has meeting on 20231207 to show OpenSTEF

Alexandre has reached out to bring us into contact with them; mail is send.