Energy is at the heart of our net zero future, but we can’t decarbonise the sector without trusted data sharing. Too often, access to energy data that’s vital to the transition is blocked by lack of trust, difficulty agreeing access and use, and inconsistent data standards.
Open Energy members collaboratively design, deliver and govern open standards at market scale, enabling trusted data sharing between organisations. This reduces cost and risk while unlocking new markets, services, and data-driven opportunities.
Membership enables your organisation to:
Scale flexibility
Find out more about the I&C flexibility use case, and how it can benefit your organisation.
Shape the rules
Co-design the rules for data sharing in the energy sector.
Integrate Schemes
Integrate market-scale Schemes with your business.
Expand your network
Join an expert network of professionals working with data to drive net zero.
Membership also includes strategic partnerships, offering deeper engagement across IB1’s programmes – including co-design, active co-bidding, and cross-sector engagement.
2026 focus: A shared data scheme to accelerate I&C Flexibility
Industrial and Commercial (I&C) flexibility enables energy users to shift energy use in response to grid needs. This helps support the shift to renewable energy while unlocking lower costs, new revenue, and greater resilience.
Open Energy members, including networks, providers, and consumer representatives, are developing a shared data scheme to fix this and enable flexibility to scale across the UK energy system.
If flexibility impacts your organisation, whether as an opportunity, a challenge, or a dependency, being part of Open Energy gives you a seat at the table, where the future of data sharing is being built.
“What is absolutely key to enabling more I&C participation in flexibility markets is data. We need to ensure trusted data sharing that benefits the energy system and the customers who are participating… Open Energy has been working in this area for a number of years and, through the Perseus Scheme, Icebreaker One has already demonstrated proof of concept.”
Sara Vaughan, Co-chair of Open Energy
Live Schemes
Assured Open Data
The Assured Open Data Scheme provides all members with a structured, externally verifiable pathway to publishing trusted open data at scale. For those with regulatory open data mandates, participation can also strengthen DSO incentive submissions in RIIO-ED2 and build the interoperability foundations required for RIIO-3.
Perseus
The UK’s first national, cross-sector Smart Data Scheme, Perseus has the potential to unlock a £5–10bn opportunity in embedded sustainable finance. With incentives that can radically reduce reporting costs, Perseus accelerates capital into energy efficiency, lowers carbon intensity, and enables new financial innovation on resilience and adaptation. It is led by 70 commercial members, including 12 banks and lenders, and orchestrated by IB1.
“Working with IB1 has been really valuable in providing awareness, guidance, and direction. One of the biggest benefits has been driving the collaboration between the DNOs through steering and working groups. This kind of collaboration is crucial for progressing interoperability and shared best practices”.
Rohan Graham, Head of Asset Data, National Grid
