We presented our work on battery energy storage optimisation at the
LFEnergy Summit Europe 2025
in Aachen, Germany.
LF Energy
is an open source foundation within the
Linux Foundation
that supports the energy sector's transition to renewables by supporting open-source software development and adoption
for DSOs (Distribution System Operators) and TSOs (Transmission System Operators).
LF Energy has adopted
RTC-Tools—the
open-source optimisation platform created by two of our founders back in 2015—as a Technical Project.
This adoption marks LF Energy's expansion beyond traditional grid operations into trading technology,
reflecting the growing convergence of grid management and market optimisation.
The first talk explains how we help drive efficiencies in power trading through advanced BESS optimisation techniques,
while simultaneously promoting code reuse through open-source and open-core solutions.
The second is a lightning talk introducing our basic open-source release; you can explore the details in our
Australian NEM case study.
We have released an open-source BESS optimisation demonstration for the Australian National Electricity Market,
built on the open-source optimisation platform RTC-Tools.
This basic demo achieves ±240 kAUD/MW/year in 2024 backtesting—matching best-in-class NSW battery performance—using
only publicly available AEMO predispatch forecasts.
The demo is freely available on
GitHub
and demonstrates the power of RTC-Tools as a foundation for BESS optimisation.
Our commercial open-core platform builds on RTC-Tools with advanced features including
probabilistic optimisation, bid/offer volume & price co-optimisation, market impact modeling, FCAS co-optimisation, and comprehensive
value stacking—delivering performance well beyond best-in-class with potential uplift of more than 40%.
Get inner-source access to our commercial platform—enterprise performance with open-source transparency.