APIS

With energy resources and infrastructure increasingly challenged to meet the coming impacts of climate change and natural disasters, Hyphae aims to make the grid more resilient and flexible with microgrids. By providing an Autonomous Power Interchange System (APIS), Hyphae automatically and efficiently distributes locally-produced renewable energy over a DC grid to interconnect with AC Grids. With resilient, physical peer-to-peer microgrid energy trading, even the most remote communities will be able to store and distribute energy autonomously without connecting to large-scale power stations or electrical distribution networks

The name Hyphae is Greek for “web”. Hyphae is a fitting name for microgrid software that will enable the connection of buildings, homes, and energy-consuming devices to energy-producing devices like storage, EV batteries, and PV. At the core of the software is physical peer-to-peer (P2P) trading, much like what happens in a forest between trees.

Hyphae is the seed contribution or foundation for a suite of energy web services that will be able to meet the explosion in flexibly built nano, mini, and microgrids. Increasingly, microgrids play a vital role for the resiliency of existing utility grids. LF Hyphae also provides the bridge services to the main grid. On our roadmap, we plan to accomplish this via integration with LF Energy SOGNO, a project to create plug-and-play, cloud-native, micro-services to implement our next generation of data-driven monitoring and control systems.

As the world races to develop and build microgrids that are resilient and flexible, an open-source, automated microgrid controller and a physical peer-to-peer trading platform like Hyphae will allow for faster innovation while decreasing costs for everyone.