We are pleased to announce that IB1 will be supporting The Retail Energy Code Company (RECCo) in the design and development of Ofgem’s policy position to implement a Consumer Consent Solution (CCS).
The CCS is a secure, digital solution that empowers energy consumers to control who can access their energy data. It enables people to easily grant, manage, review, and revoke consent. This supports transparency, consumer choice, and strong data protection across the retail energy market.
IB1’s Role
IB1 will provide expert advisory support, assisting in the design of the Trust Framework that underpins the CCS. This framework will be central to ensuring that the service is reliable, transparent, trusted and usable by both consumers and market participants.
We will leverage our extensive experience in designing, developing, and advising on Trust Frameworks, Consent and Permission, and in cross-sector stakeholder engagement to deliver market-scale solutions.
In particular we will bring learnings from the Perseus project, which enables SMEs to securely share emissions data with banks, calculated from their metered energy consumption, in a permission-based framework.
Sharing data with consumer or business consent is at the core of the smart data economy heralded by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. We are delighted to be working on a key initial focus of the Act, and intend for our learnings to be repurposed across sectors to help achieve legal, policy and technical alignment.