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Maximilian Pohl (Tweede golf) and Stijn van Houwelingen (ElaadNL) presented openleadr-rs at FOSDEM 2026. You can now watch the recording of the talk.
On Thursday 11 September 2025, I attended the LF Energy Summit in Aachen, Germany, where I gave the talk ‘Rust Meets the Grid: Building openleadr-rs for Real-World Demand Response’, together with Ton Smets from ElaadNL.
Last November, we announced that our open-source Rust implementation of the latest version of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard had officially joined the Linux Energy Foundation’s OpenLEADR project. Today, we’re excited to share some of the early traction we’re seeing, outline our future plans, and invite your support in shaping what’s next.

This article was authored by Jordy Aaldering and Folkert de Vries

Over the past couple of months, we teamed up with Bernard van Gastel and Jordy Aaldering at Radboud University's Software Energy Lab to measure nea's energy efficiency.