It includes:

1. What did we set out to achieve?
2. Demo
3. Use cases: how we got there and who was involved?
4. Policy & governance: what we did and why was it important?
5. What were the outcomes and how are we evolving the service?
6. What can you do to get involved? 

For more information, and to join, please see https://openenergy.org.uk

Link to deck https://bit.ly/ib1-smartdcc-20220309

The NIMBUS project will explore how meteorological data can be made available to energy networks to improve their efficiency, security and resilience. 

The project has won funding from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund.

Weather conditions have a major impact on power networks, with the potential to disrupt electricity supply to customers and damage infrastructure like pylons, power lines and substations. 

Better access to real-time weather data will help networks manage their response during weather events.  In the long-term, a range of meteorological data will help them make the network more resilient to the changing climate, by upgrading or adapting the infrastructure most at risk from extreme weather. 

It comes as this week’s report from the global authority on climate science, the UN’s IPCC, warned that extreme weather caused by climate change is accelerating. 

Last month, Storm Eunice left more than a million homes across the UK without power. 

Better weather data could also help energy networks integrate more renewable energy technology, like wind, solar and tidal, and battery storage, helping them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

The project’s discovery phase will explore what data energy networks need, and how they’re likely to use it to reduce emissions and make the UK’s power networks more resilient. It will also quantify the positive impact on the UK’s millions of energy customers if access to weather data is improved. 

Gavin Starks, Founder and CEO of Icebreaker One, said: “Improving access to the UK’s weather data is a huge step forward on our road to net zero. 

“Energy networks need access to detailed, accurate meteorological data to prepare for weather events and integrate renewable technology in the right places and at the right times. It’s part of making sure our energy networks are prepared to adapt to climate change, and stop it getting worse. 

“Meteorological data is a vital part of the web of net zero data that Icebreaker One is developing. We need to connect, not collect, data if we’re going to be successful at tackling climate change on the scale we need. 

“The stark warnings from climate scientists are clear: we are not yet on track to slow down climate change, extreme weather events are more frequent and more serious, and we need to reduce emissions drastically. At the same time, we need to prepare and adapt to the enormous impacts of climate change. 

“We’re delighted to be working alongside SSEN Transmission and Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund on this project.” 

This project is funded by energy network users and consumers through the Strategic Innovation Fund, a programme from the UK’s independent energy regulator Ofgem managed in partnership with Innovate UK.

See the full list of Strategic Innovation Fund projects here.

The need to get to net zero underpins all of it. 

Getting to net zero makes our energy system more complex: renewable power generation and flexibility and storage technologies all make our power grid more decentralised. Meanwhile, as our overall power use shifts towards electricity, reliability and cost-efficiency is more important than ever.

This level of decentralisation and reliability can only happen if data can be shared: securely, efficiently and in real time.  

That’s the vision at the heart of Ofgem’s RIIO-ED2, a performance-based model for the spending and investment of energy network companies that determines how they will operate between 2023 and 2030. 

What RIIO-ED2 means for data sharing

Ofgem’s vision for the future is set to speed up the pace of digitalisation in the energy sector. 

It focuses network operators on their plans for data sharing, digitalisation, flexibility and forward planning, requiring them to share and coordinate energy data use better. 

Ofgem decided that DNOs must: 

• publish and regularly review a Digitalisation Strategy & Action Plan in accordance with their guidance
• use data in a way that meets the expectations of Data Best Practice guidance.

Network operators have submitted their business plans for this new RIIO period: now, they need to deliver on the commitments they’ve made. 

That means network operators need to scale up their data maturity quickly, helping them to efficiently exchange large quantities of data in a secure way. Sharing individual datasets manually drives up legal, administration and data-handling costs and introduces more potential for human error.

How Open Energy helps deliver RIIO-ED2 business plans 

Open Energy makes it easy to search, access and securely share energy data. It covers both Open Data and commercial Shared Data where access requires control. It’s a non-profit service run by a non-partisan organisation, Icebreaker One. 

Open Energy uses open standards to make data interoperable between different systems and organisations, using financial-grade security and a powerful search engine to make data discovery fast and secure. 

For organisations holding vast quantities of data – like network operators – Open Energy improves the data sharing process by automating security checks and legal contracts. ‘The data owners sets their terms once over a defined period, then lets Open Energy do the rest.

In the short term, Open Energy helps networks to plan effectively and meet new digitalisation and data-sharing license obligations, like making their data discoverable, searchable and shareable. 

In the long term, Open Energy helps networks moving through the transition from DNO to DSO by meeting their enhanced data requirements.

How Open Energy helps organisations comply with Data Best Practice Guidance

How Open Energy helps organisations deliver their Digitalisation Strategy and Action Plan 

Open Energy is a non-profit service designed to transform data sharing in the energy system. It accelerates the journey to net zero, enables innovation, and helps organisations comply with fast-moving regulation. 

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Find out more about using Open Energy

I set up Icebreaker One to help address the challenges highlighted in this report.

It’s an essential step to the transformation needed in our energy system to reach Net Zero. Decarbonising our energy system means integrating millions more renewable energy installations, as well as sources of moveable demand like EVs and heat pumps. That will only be manageable if data can be shared – securely, efficiently, and in real-time.

National data infrastructure

At Icebreaker One, we are creating a web of net-zero data so that investment and action are better directed towards Net Zero.

Central to this is Icebreaker One’s Open Energy programme. Open Energy makes it easy to search, access and securely share both commercial and open energy data. It does this by creating an open marketplace for energy data; and common standards that address cohesion and interoperability and radically reduce the costs of data-sharing.

Why Open Energy is essential to delivery of the Energy Digitalisation Taskforce Recommendations 

1. Open Energy is the Data Sharing Fabric the energy system needs

The recommendations call for Data Sharing Fabric: “the governance, administrative and technological solution for the management of access to Shared Data across organisations.” This will form part of the networked Digital Spine covering the entire energy system, and is essential to interoperability.  

Open Energy delivers the Data Sharing Fabric.

The Open Energy programme helps deliver all parts of the Fabric. Discoverability of both Open and Shared data is delivered through Search. Common data sharing standards deliver strong governance created by the industry for the industry. The development of Search and Access Control features at openenergy.org.uk deliver technology required to enable data sharing, some of which will be automatable in future. Finally the industry-led Open Energy team administers the service and provides an accessible forum to unpack emerging questions, industry needs and use-cases. 

The report recognises this, highlighting that “there has been some fantastic work in this space, funded through the Modernising Energy Data Access funding competition and delivered by Icebreaker One. This competitive process has resulted in Open Energy which is currently in Pilot and could be the basis for further development.”

The report’s independent analysis of governance solutions calls Open Energy:

“An obvious candidate for leading the sector’s co-investment on the topic of making data sharing easy, including data authentication and compliance with open-by-default licencing as well as associated required data formats.”

It recommends:

“Valuable sector initiatives can be sustained by giving them a mandate and budget to perform as the sector’s orchestrators and the designers of change for shared challenges.”

2. Open Energy helps unlock the value of customer actions and assets

This recommendation encourages the sharing of ‘depersonalised smart meter data’ required for public interest use-cases. Open Energy can help facilitate this as our infrastructure allows for the sharing of anonymised smart meter data.

3. Open Energy enables carbon monitoring and accounting

The ability to share carbon data underpins this recommendation. Open Energy can facilitate sharing both Open and Shared carbon data. Open Energy can integrate sharing of carbon data alongside other data types required to build a holistic picture of the energy system’s progress towards Net Zero. This enables actors to bring together data requests from different sources. 

4. Open Energy drives forward a digitalisation culture in the energy system

Open Energy has demonstrated strong digital leadership by embedding an agile digital culture within our organisation and through constant learning/collaboration with other sectors such as banking and telecoms.

We also use a use case-based approach that encourages whole-systems thinking and engagement of a diverse range of actors around specific use-cases that are valuable to Net Zero.

Finally, through our use-case development, Advisory Groups and User Testing, we have supported a variety of stakeholders to work through knotty problems and to build skills and resources that can help to embed digitalisation cultures within their own organisations.

5. Open Energy uses financial-grade security measures 

Recommendation 4 promotes the adoption of digital security measures. 

Open Energy’s technical infrastructure complies with high standards of data security and data protection. It uses financial-grade APIs to enable safe data-sharing. 

Our technical infrastructure integrates with a trust framework developed through extensive open sector consultation. The combination of these two elements creates a secure and tested environment for data-sharing.

6. Open Energy leads the world on delivering public interest infrastructure using open methodologies

Open Energy supports the principles underpinning this set of recommendations, and the creation of all public interest digital assets. We do this through our non-profit status, use of open working methodologies and development of open source software. 

These features show that Open Energy is the most appropriate entity to support data-sharing required for delivery of the digital spine; working in a non-proprietary manner ‘for the sector by the sector’ for the purposes of delivering net zero.

Our work is non-profit, consultative and open. As well as supporting holistic delivery of these recommendations, Open Energy shows proactive leadership in driving change to industry culture and values that align with the report.

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Gavin Starks provided an introduction to Open Energy: what it is, how it was made and who it is for, discussing the Open Energy ecosystem and the relationships and innovation required to establish market-wide standards which can unlock the common data required to help us all address Net-Zero. The presentation also covered how opening up the energy sector will impact the wider industrial and financial sectors, enabling the acceleration of low-carbon technologies and de-risking investment in net-zero solutions.

Slides used in the presentation

The UK is investing £100M’s to revolutionise its energy infrastructure, to help us get to Net Zero and adapt to huge changes in energy supply (e.g. renewable energy) and demand (e.g. vehicles).  

Icebreaker One is launching a Pilot phase of Open Energy (OE), running from October 2021 to February 2022 and is inviting applications to the Open Energy Advisory Groups to help inform the national energy data infrastructure. If you think a colleague or sector expert would be interested, please share the link to this page with them. If you are interested in being an active part of the emerging OE community you can also indicate this on the form. Please also sign up to our (low volume) mailing list for updates.

Open Energy Pilot — Advisory Groups 

The Open Energy Advisory Groups convene and combine individual expertise to help understand how the UK may better modernise energy data access. There are two Advisory Groups in the Pilot: 

1. The Membership & Delivery Advisory Group will be a continuation of the Modernising Energy Data Access work, and look into answering some of the outstanding questions. These include topics such as the membership contract and defining data access specifications. 
2. The User Needs Group will explore, prioritise and work through additional use cases that should be supported by Open Energy to help us work out where to go next, including identifying the precise user needs, the data value chain and the ecosystem surrounding each use case.

Sub-groups may be formed to address specific topics and issues as they emerge.

Advisory Group Goals 

Advisory Group 1: Membership & Delivery

Advisory Group agreement on the following:

• Membership contract iterations
• Defining data access specifications
• Key policies – conditions for participation, roles, responsibilities and liabilities
• Draft preemptive license
• Funding model 
• Understanding data production, flows and usage
• Authorisation process and audit
• Requirements for Access Control and Search to ensure it meets end user and sector needs

Advisory Group 2: User Needs

Advisory Group agreement on the following:

• Identification and prioritisation of use cases
• Map and quantify expected benefits 
• Analysis of the associated operational, technical, legal, licensing and policy considerations needed to operationalise the use cases
• Identify requirements for Access Control and Search to ensure it meets end user and sector needs

Participant Commitment 

Advisory Group members are expected to attend five (5) two-hour meetings, prepare for these meetings ahead of time, and to help in the dissemination of the work to the industry communities. These meetings will run from October 2021 to February 2022.

All participants in Advisory Groups agree to sign up to the Terms of Reference, which sets out our values and goals. 

Open Energy Pilot — Steering Group

The Advisory Groups will be overseen by a Steering Group, providing a focal point for reporting, challenge function and sign-off of the Advisory Group recommendations. The Steering Group will be Co-Chaired by Icebreaker One, and participants include representatives from government, regulator, consumer bodies, trade association and Co-Chairs of the Membership & Delivery and the User Needs Advisory Groups. We are currently accepting applications to join the Steering Group. 

Participant Commitment

Steering Group members are expected to attend five (5) 90-minute meetings, prepare for these meetings ahead of time, and to help in the dissemination of the work to the industry communities. These meetings will run from October 2021 to February 2022.

All participants in the Steering Group agree to sign up to the Terms of Reference, which sets out our values and goals. 

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Join Us

Applications for the Pilot Steering Group and Advisory Groups are now closed. Please check here or sign up to our mailing list to be notified when we reopen recruitment.

If you’d like to be a part of the Open Energy community, where you can get regular updates and review our most current documentation for Open Energy, please sign up using this form or email us at openenergy@icebreakerone.org.

Please get in touch with us at openenergy@icebreakerone.org if you have any questions. 

Above is our high-level roadmap for the development of Open Energy over the rest of this financial year. We are in the planning phase and will publish more details when we have them. This map is to help communicate where we are today and help everyone understand what is in scope.

Please contact us if you have any questions: openenergy@icebreakerone.org

As the DDSG chair has commented previously, “as we look to a low-carbon economy, the data that we need to reach Net Zero at the pace we’re working to isn’t available…. the gas and electricity networks are deploying digital solutions to ensure we can achieve not only our wider decarbonisation goals, but ensure we continue and improve the level of service for our customers”.

The slides used during the discussion are below.

“Of the three building block recommendations [Open Energy] has made the most progress.”

“The Energy Data Taskforce (EDTF) was commissioned by the UK Government, Ofgem and Innovate
UK to develop an integrated data and digital strategy that helps unlock the opportunities of a
modern, decarbonised, and decentralised Energy System for the benefit of consumers. Chaired by
Laura Sandys CBE and implemented by Energy Systems Catapult, the EDTF delivered a strategy for
a ‘Modern, Digitalised Energy System’ centred around a set of key principles.
The EDTF team engaged with over 300 individuals throughout the energy sector and beyond to
understand existing challenges, develop hypothesises and test recommendations. EDTF presented
five key recommendations to achieve a Modern, Digitalised Energy System based around the need
to fill the data gaps and maximise the value of data, providing a strong foundation for the
Digitalisation of the Energy System.”

Simon Evans, Arup’s Digital Energy Leader and Lee Wilson, Scottish Power’s Data & Analytics Product Owner led the session on the Data Standards & Glossary Advisory Group, with over 20 attendees from across the sector.

Slides

The second EDVP Data Standards and Glossary Advisory Group meeting slides are below:

What did we discuss?

During this session, the Advisory Group considered:

• The EDVP project has identified 40 metadata attributes for the energy sector in order to explore the minimum requirements for data visibility, and reduce barriers of entry for those using Open Energy. Advisory Group members noted their agreement or disagreement with the requirement level assigned to each attribute and explained their reasoning. The metadata attribute list and member feedback can be found here; we encourage you to add your own thoughts and feedback (open to comment / edit by anyone).
• To support data discovery and interoperability, there are two ways to express what a dataset is about in the metadata standards EDVP have developed, keywords and standardised URIs.
• Advisory Group participants discussed the complicated space of the current state of energy glossaries. They touched on the importance of adopting and reusing terms from existing reports and publications in the sector to maximise sector buy-in and of converting those reports & documents into a structured and machine readable format to support interoperability.

Finally, we discussed how Open Energy is mapping metadata to CKAN and the alignment between MEDA and EDVP.

It sets out emerging plans for regulatory requirements that will change how energy network companies deal with data. 

Here are six reflections from Icebreaker One on Ofgem’s plans: 

1. We fully support Ofgem in their drive to improve data and digitalisation in the energy sector.

We need systemic change in the way the energy sector deals with data. Right now, data is too hard to access, and often feels too risky to share. It costs too much money to negotiate individual agreements to share data, and this puts barriers in the way of small or innovative businesses to have equal access to data. This also puts enormous barriers in the way of the UK planning for the renewable energy infrastructure we need, like electric vehicle charging points. Changing this system will make it easier for innovation to thrive in the energy market, and enable the UK to implement the technology it needs to hit net zero. 

2. The Open Energy initiative will operationalise Ofgem’s ambitions. 

Open Energy is an initiative that brings industry together to understand their data needs (business, legal, technical, policy) and delivers operational services that make it easy to search, access and securely share energy data. It gives access to energy data held by thousands of individual organisations and institutions. It has received support from Ofgem and the UK Government, and is currently in beta. 

It provides a search engine which makes it simple to find both Open Data, that’s already openly available, and Shared Data, that can’t be published openly for legal, privacy, commercial or security reasons. For Open Data, the service links people directly to the source data without any need for registration. For Shared Data, it provides a governance service, which makes it efficient and secure to access and share this data. It covers legal contracts and security authentication so data is only accessed by the right organisations under pre-agreed policy and rules, using automation to simplify and scale the process. It’s built to financial-grade security standards to ensure that companies are in charge of their data and who can use it. The purpose of these two services, combined, is to make it easy to find, access and use all kinds of data, regardless of how they are licensed. 

3. We propose that transformation needs accountability to reduce implementation risks. 

There are many barriers to digitalisation.  Ofgem will need to find the most effective way to motivate energy organisations to adapt. These incentives could be stronger than those currently proposed in the draft guidance. Ofgem could look at other types of regulation for inspiration – like protection regulations for inspiration, where a Data Protection Officer is appointed, or financial services regulations, where Senior Managers assume formal responsibility. 

4. We propose data sharing requires a dispute resolution process. 

Without this, Ofgem’s key principles will be difficult to enforce, and trust in the energy data ecosystem could erode, or slow down, at a time when Ofgem is trying to build it. Proper dispute resolution processes build trust. This is especially important at a point when the energy ecosystem is becoming more complex than ever, with a range of new and old organisations working within it. We believe that now is the time to lay the foundation stones for the processes that will help industry scale to meet our societal needs. 

5. We strongly support Ofgem’s position to enshrine interoperability as a principle. 

It is essential that both systems and processes work together, and the energy ecosystem isn’t there yet: heavy use of bespoke, individually-negotiated data licenses means inadvertent restrictions are put in place about what can be done with that data. 

To deliver an open marketplace for energy data will require cohesion and interoperability across both business rules and technology. It requires trust, and trust builds when we collaborate on the basis of agreed, consistent policy and rules. Based on our industry consultations, including Advisory Groups spanning the sector, Open Energy is delivering a governance service that has interoperability at its heart. This gives control to Data Providers  and ensures data is only accessed by the right organisations under pre-agreed policy and rules, using automation to radically simplify and scale the process. 

6. Given the UK is on an urgent deadline to meet the net zero commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement, we strongly encourage rapid delivery of Ofgem’s data plans. 

Better access to data is mission critical to plan and scale clean energy technology. This guidance would benefit from firm interim milestones to make sure that regulated organisations achieve the ultimate deadlines that Ofgem will set them.  

Read Icebreaker One’s full response to the consultation here.

Get in touch to discuss Open Energy at openenergy@icebreakerone.org, or apply to become a beta tester.

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About the session

Simon Evans, Arup’s  Digital Energy Leader and Lee Wilson, Scottish Power’s Data & Analytics led today’s session on the Metadata Standards & Glossaries Advisory Group, with over 30 attendees from across the sector. 

Slides from the session are below:

A broad-ranging introduction, we covered metadata standards and publishing, through to how this work feeds into national energy digitalisation programmes.

We have applied the following principles in designing/selecting the metadata standards and supporting glossaries:

• Coverage: the standards should provide for appropriate breadth and depth of coverage of the sector
• Flexibility: adopters should be able to select those parts of the standards most relevant to their needs
• Extensibility: the standards should provide a framework within which additional standards can be included as new requirements and use cases arise
• Interoperability: the standards should maximise the interoperability of data between systems and actors
• Reuse: the standards should adopt/reuse existing standards wherever possible
• Consistency: the standards should support adopters to apply the standards as consistently as possible.
• The “metadata standard” is not a single standard, but a collection of core standards and links to others

Example feedback across four themes included:

1. Feasibility, maturity and blockers

“The ability to pass through Licensing seamlessly is critical. Our end users need the ability to access data and know that the licensing is taken care of.

Data needs to be de-siloed from regulated energy ‘monopolies’. Policy and regulation which compels data siol owners to make available their data without cost or undue restrictions is critical to the development of the energy sector. “ 

“Challenges I see in this industry: Data quality, lack of standards application (where they exist (e.g. CIM) and standards in some areas. Lack of metadata capture. Open data triage process is a good starting point but will need adaptation and adoption in each organisation. Potential liability if data is used for purposes that it was not intended for. Others getting commercial gain from ‘my data’ without me being compensated.“ 

2. Flexibility, extensibility, evolution

“Critical for take up. I think the introduction of ‘recommended’ subset of fields will be useful but making it all mandatory could be a barrier for some to participation so lets everyone move collectively forward and improve over time”

“The standards should be evolved completely out in the open (which would be a major departure for the UK energy industry!).  The standards should be developed on GitHub, just like standards like DCAT are discussed on GitHub.”

3. Interoperability

“Everything is an API, no exceptions. We use OpenAPI/Swagger definitions to publish available data sets and methods both internally and externally.  We would really appreciate not having to reinvent the wheel every time. For instance, let’s all standardise on UTC, let’s all publish in JSON,CSV and XML as a minimum. Etc.”

“As a minimum I think consistent application (in meaning) of the mandatory fields across different organisations would be a start.”

4. Benefits, Values, Incentives, Drivers

“Allowing more people to use data has the potential to lead to an improved consumer experience – greater variety of offers and business models”

“Descriptors on subject; format; quality and rights will be useful but has been done more ad hoc; I think we have room for improvement here so anticipate other fields may be useful but we haven’t industrialised our learning yet.

I imagine consistency in standards will be important for partners and also for example researchers/ agencies seeking to understand a ‘joined up picture’ and take a lens to particular use cases or topics “

Finally, we presented the metadata progress from MEDA and its alignment with EDVP. Feedback emphasised the importance of tooling and the potential role as a gold standard best practice guide for publishing open data.  

Through a competitive process, Icebreaker One (working with Arup and Hippo Digital) has won funding from BEIS to enhance and expand its work on Open Energy.  These programmes will run over the course of June-July 2021.

As part of this, we are running three outreach and engagement programmes with the sector.

Today, we have three calls to action

1. Tell us about your needs
   Outcome: clear descriptions of the needs of the market and its practitioners
   Sign up here for a short 1:1 interview
   
2. Shape national energy data standards and glossary through an Industry Advisory Group
   Outcome: descriptions, and alignment around descriptions, of the specific needs of data standards and glossary.
   Sign up for the Advisory Group via edvp@icebreakerone.org
   (details of all Open Energy Advisory Groups below)

3. Showcase your innovation — with potential cash awards up to £7k  
   Outcome: engagement to, and exposure of, the best innovation in the UK.
   More information and submit your application here

Please share this post with colleagues and peers you think may be interested. 

Please contact edvp@icebreakerone.org if you have any further questions. 

Advisory Group 3: Data Standards and Glossary

Data Standards and Glossary Advisory Group: Consulting on the EDVP requirements on data standards and glossary. Establishing an awareness of how the Energy Data Search functions, and feeding the outputs back to the MEDA AGs to ensure there is common understanding of the directions of travel. 

Goals:

• Understanding data description and architectural requirements 
• Understanding use cases 
• Input reports for the EDVP Steering Group and OE AG-2 to provide use-case input for the Energy Data Search development 

Terms of reference: ToR: Open Energy OE-EDVP-AG Advisory Group  Terms of Reference – EVDP Data Standards and Glossary   

As part of the MEDA programme, we have two existing AG’s as below:

Advisory Group 1: Membership

• Membership contract
• Key policies; conditions for participation, roles, responsibilities and liabilities
• Pre-emptive licence
• Funding model
• Ongoing governance

Advisory Group 2: Delivery

• Operational guidelines
• Data production, flows and usage
• Authorisation process and audit
• Ensure that the Governance Platform and Data Search capabilities meet user and sector needs 

The Advisory Groups are directed by the Steering Group who ensure the delivery of MEDA Phase 3 Objectives (modernising data discoverability, access and exchange) and help disseminate work to the MEDA communities.

Data is seen as key to the achievement of net zero carbon emission in the UK energy industry.

“Open Energy” is about sharing data between energy suppliers, solution developers and the public.

Is it possible to learn from the approaches already adopted within other industries, for example, retail banking.

• What is ‘NetZero’ in this context and what data is required?
• What is ‘Open Data’ and what are the challenges?
• How can energy data be made ‘open’?
• What lessons can be learned from the success of Open Banking?

https://www.bcs.org/events/2021/february/webinar-data-for-open-energy

Convening industry, research and academia, and including students, data analysts, CTOs and beyond, this presentation includes detail about how data sharing will impact the whole energy sector and how it might help those focused on digital technologies apply this to renewables.

We are now looking to speak to potential users of Energy Data Search and the Open Energy Governance Service to understand if it meets users’ needs. We are specifically looking to conduct one-to-one interviews with people who use energy data, those who provide energy data, and regulators in order to understand:

1. What you use data for
2. Why you need to do it
3. Where you find/provide data
4. What your main issues around using / providing data are
5. How the Energy Data Search and Open Energy Governance services might meet these needs

Our research team would like to explore your data needs. This will help the team to understand how we can design a service that responds to these needs.

We would like to speak to a broad range of users, such as:
1. Data providers who share data about the energy system
2. Data consumers who use data about the energy system – covering operational, academic, and innovation-centric use of the data
3. Service providers that aggregate or build services using existing energy system data
4. Regulators and policymakers who want to play a role in shaping policy to support open energy data and oversight on data visibility

In addition to this, we would greatly welcome the opportunity to speak to users who use assistive technology to access services on the internet.

These sessions will be scheduled over the coming weeks and we will be flexible in response to your availability. The session will take around 45 minutes and an invitation will be sent to you to join a Google Meet meeting. For further queries, please contact

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