Open Energy, the governance body of the Energy Sector Trust Framework, is seeking feedback from its members and the public on the two main components of its proposed Assured Open Data scheme:

Please comment directly on the Google Docs if you are able, or email feedback to openenergy@ib1.org. Comments received before June 2 2025 will be considered for inclusion in the initial scheme implementation.

Background

Open Energy is proposing to add an Assured Open Data scheme to the Energy Sector Trust Framework (ESTF). The scheme has these main aims:

  • Provide assurance to consumers of Open Data published by Members
  • Enhance the quality, consistency, and reliability of published data
  • Ensure Members comply with relevant data protection, privacy, and security regulations (e.g. members don’t publish any data subject to data protection regulations such as GDPR as Open Data under the scheme)
  • Promote transparency and accountability within the data-sharing ecosystem.

The scheme incorporates updated organisational and dataset assurance levels based on feedback on the original levels that Icebreaker One announced in September 2023. These levels are already being used, for example by Open Energy members SSEN-D on their data portal.

Joining the scheme will be free to ESTF members. In order to assert the assurance levels members must execute the scheme agreement that sets out their commitments, and liabilities should they fail to meet them.