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An overview of the Green Button for America Initiative, a common sense effort to provide consumers with their energy usage information. This White House inspired initiative is providing energy usage information to over 30 million households in America
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Green Button for America
What is Green Button? • Common-sense idea that
electricity customers should be able to download and transmit their own energy usage information in a standard consumer- and computer-friendly format
• Today, 18M households and businesses have access with commitments from utilities to deploy to an additional 20M homes
• Major Goal: Within one year, double the number of customers with access to Green Button
• Green Button is also a data standard that can be used to represent and transmit energy usage and cost information – in any system (not just for data from utilities or electric meters)
Green Button Download My Data & Connect My Data Now Rolling Out
A customer visits their u.lity web portal, they can simply login and
download their Green Bu;on Data as an XML-‐forma;ed file
This powerful model allows a consumer to authorize a third-‐party service provider to receive direct access to their Green Bu;on Data -‐ no need to repeatedly login to their
u.lity and download files. These authoriza.ons are valid for an agreed
upon .me and can be revoked at any.me by the consumer
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What Can Green Bu-on Be Used For?
Innovation: entrepreneur-created web portals and apps analyze energy usage and savings Heating and Cooling: customized heating and cooling activities for savings and comfort; Solar: Significantly better accuracy of quotes Verification: Measurement of energy efficiency investments Real Estate: Provide cost info to tenants/buyers Education: Community and student energy efficiency competitions
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What People Are Saying About Green Bu-on…
“It may finally give consumers a reason to care about the smart grid.” – SF Chronicle “Solar companies are also eager for consumer data because understanding a homeowner's electricity use is key to the sales process.” – San Jose Mercury News “I'm a big fan of simplicity and open standards to unleash a lot of innovation.…I'm going to reach out to ConEd, the utility in NYC, and find out when they are going to add Green Button support to their consumers data. I hope it is soon.”
– Fred Wilson (Venture Capitalist)
Green Bu-on U>lity Support
Commi;ed Implemented • Aclara • Apogee Interactive, Inc. • Belkin • BuildingIQ • Calico Energy Services • C3 • Ecova • Efergy USA, Inc. • Efficiency 2.0 • eMeter - A Siemens Business • EnergyDeck Ltd. • EnergySavvy • FirstFuel • Honest Buildings • iControl Networks • Johnson Controls Panoptix • LinkCycle • Melon • myBenchmarx • Noesis Energy • Oracle • PlotWatt • Power2Switch • Schneider-Electric • Silver Spring Networks • Simple Energy • Smart Utility Systems • SunRun
• Alarm.com Incorporated • Autodesk, Inc. • Building Energy Inc. • BuiltSpace Technologies Corp. • EchoDog • EnergyAi • EnerNOC • EnerNex • Gas and Power Technologies • Genability • Green Suite LLC • High Energy Audits • HyperTek • Itron • Lucid • Melon Power • OPower • PEV4me.com • Planet Ecosystems • People Power • Performance Systems Development • Retroficiency • Smart Grid Labs • Snugg Home • Tendril • Wattvision • Watts At Work
Green Button 3rd Party Support
“The Administration will leverage the ‘Green Button’ standard – which aggregates energy data in a secure, easy to use format – within federal facilities to increase their ability to manage energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and meet sustainability goals.”
The President’s Climate Action Plan, June 25, 2013
Climate Action Plan Commitment
Green Button and Federal Facilities • GSA to serve as a test bed or pilot of Green Button Connect
My Data
• Details: – Green Button Data streams provided from both submeter
and utility (whole facility) meter sources. – Work with vendors to support Green Button Connect My
Data when providing energy-related services to GSA
• Desired Outcome: – Show the value of Green Button data streams to the
operational efficiency of GSA Energy Managers
Engage Utilities Ask utilities to provide GSA electricity data in Green Button format
• Details: – GSA will request usage and cost data from selected utilities
that provide electricity for its buildings – GSA will request utilities to use Green Button Connect My Data
standard to link data directly to energy management/efficiency systems and vendors
• Desired Outcome: – Show the value of using whole facility data in the energy
management of buildings without significant sub-metering – Show integrated Green Button data streams in facilities
currently operating with GSA Energy Managers
Engage the Vendor Ecosystem
Ask vendors to support Green Button standard when providing energy-related services to GSA
• Details: – Energy equipment and service vendors will use Green
Button format for transmitting GSA’s energy usage and cost data
• Desired Outcome: – Increase energy vendor ecosystem adoption of the Green
Button Connect My Data (vs. vendor-proprietary systems) – Increase ability of businesses and other agencies to
participate in energy efficiency programs using Green Button
Publish GSA’s Utility Data Publish datasets of GSA facilities energy usage in Green Button format
• Details: – Green Button data will be used for reporting to OMB and be
used in DOE / EPA tools (SEED, E* Portfolio Manager) – DOE’s Building Performance Database is seeking data – GSA facility & utility data would significantly increase the
volume and quality of publicly-available building energy data
• Desired Outcome: – Significantly increase the volume of energy data available to
researchers, developers and the public – Increase effectiveness of energy benchmarking tools – Encourage other institutions and companies to submit data
Energy Data For a Challenge
Support a challenge or prize using Building Link data, using the Green Button standard
• Details: – Challenge entrepreneurial community and existing energy
system vendors to create solutions in an area such as fault detection, predictive maintenance, and behavior framing
– Provide a large, standardized GSA facility consumption dataset as an input to the challenge
• Desired Outcome: – Encourage development of applications and services that
can use energy data to improve building efficiency – Gather specific ideas for savings/efficiency in GSA facilities
Department of Energy American Energy Data Challenge
• Focus: • High value
data sets • Killer ideas
Challenge Two Apps for Energy II Jan – Mar ’14
Challenge One Energy Ideas Contest Nov 6 -‐ Dec 13 ‘13
• Focus: • Best use of specific
DOE APIs, best use of customer Green Bu-on data, and best app that uses one of the “killer ideas” iden>fied in Challenge One
Challenge Three Energy Data by Design Apr –
Jun’14 Challenge Four
American Energy Challenge Jul – Oct ‘14
• Focus: • Improving the
clarity and discoverability of energy informa>on
• Focus: • Building bold
ideas for reimagining America’s energy infrastructure
h;p://energychallenge.energy.gov
Ontario, Canada - Adopts Green Button!
Ontario Hackathon and Apps Contest