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A national open-source ecosystem

E3 OSE

Energy, Electrification & EV Open-Source Ecosystem

Free, vendor-agnostic software, low-cost hardware, live operational datasets, and classroom-ready curriculum for the technicians and engineers building the grid of the future, built in the open, governed for the long term, and now being hardened against the exact vulnerabilities the energy sector is discovering the hard way.

60+
open-source hardware, software & curriculum products
300+
users and contributors across 60+ classrooms nationally
4,000+ GB
of open, live and historical operational field data
Get involved with E3 OSE
One ecosystem, three ways in

Everything a program needs to teach the modern grid.

Every product ships open, documented, and free to adapt, and every faculty member who uses it can help build the next one.

E3 OSE open-source IV curve tracer hardware IV Curve Tracer
The Ecosystem

Hardware, software, labs, curriculum & data

Everything is designed to be used together or independently, and every product ships with the classroom materials to teach it.

  • Vendor-agnostic software platforms
  • Low-cost open hardware, IV curve tracers, controllers & more
  • Turnkey lab kits and bench-scale trainers
  • Instructor guides, lesson plans & test banks
  • 4,000+ GB open live and historical field dataset
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NEW

Cyber Harden and Correct Misconfigurations for your OSE

New: The Cyber Addition

Put your platform in front of our AI Agent.

Every open-source hardware design in the ecosystem is now run through an AI-assisted bill-of-materials and circuit-image review, then validated in a live cybersecurity sandbox, built with CSSIA and NCyTE, before it's cleared for classroom use.

  • Flags unauthenticated firmware paths & exposed debug ports
  • Checks for hardcoded credentials & unvetted components
  • Validated in NCyTE/CSSIA's virtual sandbox
Test your hardware
Faculty Development

Sign up for an upcoming PD workshop.

Hands-on sessions run in partnership with CREATE, NCyTE, and NEVC, on operating all the OSE products and cyber hardening your OSE, in person and online.

Next session: CyAD Summit, Moraine Valley CC — June 2027
Made possible by federal investment

Built with the support of the National Science Foundation.

E3 OSE grew from a pilot platform to a national ecosystem through NSF's Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Directorate, and is now advancing hardware security through the PESOSE program.

NSF POSE Phase I · Award #2228959 NSF POSE Phase II · Award #2449173