Open source is not a feature. It is our nature.
Critical infrastructure must remain understandable, auditable and under the control of its operators. That conviction shapes every layer of what we build.
Built on SEAPATH
VIRTEON builds on SEAPATH — the open-source substation virtualization platform hosted by LF Energy and championed by RTE. This grounds the company in the direction transmission operators are already taking, rather than a single-vendor bet, and lets VIRTEON concentrate its engineering on the layers that create value: the application environment, the marketplace, the certification capability and the qualification corpus.
Why open source, for critical infrastructure
Open source brings trust, resilience and long-term control. It lets operators, vendors, researchers and industrial partners collaborate on robust foundations instead of rebuilding isolated proprietary silos. Openness does not mean weakness: it means auditable code, controlled access, repeatable deployment and transparent security principles.
A sovereignty imperative
Substation protection and control is critical national infrastructure. European operators and governments increasingly require grid software that is open, interoperable and free of single-vendor and extra-European lock-in. An open, French-rooted platform built on SEAPATH answers this agenda directly — with strong tailwinds from public funding priorities and from operators seeking strategic autonomy.
- Trust — auditable systems operators can inspect and control.
- Resilience — no dependency on a single proprietary base layer.
- Interoperability — a shared, standardized environment across vendors.
- Sovereignty — European-rooted, community-governed foundations.
Part of the LF Energy ecosystem
We contribute to and build on the open-source energy community rather than reinventing the low-level layer.
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