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Perseus
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Perseus is infrastructure, not a product
1 Apr 2026
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DRCF insights: Smart Data frameworks
31 Mar 2026
Gavin Starks
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UK Smart Data Strategy – to 2035
27 Mar 2026
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ecosystem-map
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Sustainability data & decision-making, a systems view
14 Nov 2025
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How the Data (Use and Access) Act will make data work better for everyone
7 Jul 2025
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Energy
ENA DDSG briefing on Open Energy & Perseus
22 May 2025
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Perseus
Perseus presented to global SME finance forum
21 May 2025
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Utility Week 2025 presentation slides
21 May 2025
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Energy
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Downstream – New Zealand – Keynote presentation (video)
19 Mar 2025
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Positioning on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
5 Feb 2025
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Our recommendations for delivering an effective National Data Library
28 Jan 2025
Gavin Starks
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Can we find the Goldilocks Zone of National Data Infrastructure?
1 Nov 2024
Gavin Starks
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UK Data Infrastructure: Smart Data
21 Sep 2024
Gavin Starks
Events & webinars
Water
Presentation: Water Data for Public Good
18 Sep 2024
Gavin Starks
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Finance
Funding the future: Philanthropy for net zero data infrastructure
4 Sep 2024
Gavin Starks
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Smart Data Roadmap – a response from non-govt members
9 May 2024
Gavin Starks
Media
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Rise to Zero: should we invert the chart?
25 Apr 2024
Gavin Starks
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Perseus
UK-India Data Stewardship for Climate
19 Mar 2024
Gavin Starks
Energy
Events & webinars
Next steps for digitalisation of the UK energy system
26 Feb 2024
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Why do we need data-sharing infrastructure for net zero?
1 Dec 2023
Gavin Starks
Energy
News
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SSEN Distribution launches data portal to drive forward net zero decisions
11 Oct 2023
Gavin Starks
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UK Open Survey: Carbon Reporting Solutions
6 Oct 2023
Gavin Starks
Finance
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Perseus AG1 initial scope and development — draft report
5 Oct 2023
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Research consultation: Carbon reporting solutions
29 Sep 2023
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Assurance — open consultation
21 Sep 2023
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Perseus Steering Group summary minutes
18 Sep 2023
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How can I navigate ‘data standards’?
18 Sep 2023
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John Elkington joins Icebreaker One Advisory Board
24 Aug 2023
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Finance
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Perseus mention in the House of Lords
24 Jul 2023
Gavin Starks
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Trust Frameworks: accelerating economic interoperability
6 Jul 2023
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Perseus AG1-Impact: agreed scope of work for phase one development
23 Jun 2023
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Finance
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Perseus — Steering Group Call to Action
13 Jun 2023
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Finance
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Perseus Steering Group summary minutes
5 Jun 2023
Gavin Starks
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Finance
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Perseus letter of support: Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP, Minister for DESNZ
5 Jun 2023
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Beginning the journey to data verification and assurance
17 May 2023
Gavin Starks
Energy
Finance
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Perseus — context and learnings from Open Banking
25 Apr 2023
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Energy
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UK creates new Smart Data Council: invites IB1 as core member
21 Apr 2023
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Icebreaker One turns three.
1 Apr 2023
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Finance
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‘Perseus’ recognised by UK Government and included in Green Finance Strategy
30 Mar 2023
Gavin Starks
Finance
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Perseus Steering Group minutes and resolutions
27 Mar 2023
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Energy
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Five steps that are critical to your energy data strategy in 2023
19 Mar 2023
Gavin Starks
Energy
Finance
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Perseus progress update — new Steering Group members
17 Mar 2023
Gavin Starks
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Transport
Lloyds Register and IB1 to drive investment in net-zero shipping
21 Feb 2023
Gavin Starks
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An environmental, economic vision for the UK — Rt Hon John Glen MP
21 Feb 2023
Gavin Starks
Briefing
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Utility Week report on the value of Open Data
20 Feb 2023
Gavin Starks
Energy
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Automating reporting & creating financial incentives for SMEs in the race to zero
6 Dec 2022
Gavin Starks
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Icebreaking in 2022
1 Dec 2022
Gavin Starks
Energy
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How will we automate sustainability reporting for every business?
12 Nov 2022
Gavin Starks
Energy
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Net Zero Data — September 2022 progress summary & partnerships
23 Sep 2022
Gavin Starks
Finance
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Recommendations for the Development of the Net-Zero Data Public Utility
23 Sep 2022
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Energy
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Water
Open Net Zero—can we build a web of net-zero data for everyone?
22 Sep 2022
Gavin Starks
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Energy
Open call for collaboration — Digital Spine feasibility study
8 Sep 2022
Gavin Starks
Finance
Opinion
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Can we automate environmental reporting? A systemic approach.
1 Aug 2022
Gavin Starks
Energy
Opinion
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Transport
Winter22: Increasing security & resilience of UK’s energy supply
12 Jul 2022
Gavin Starks
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Why is better data access essential to delivering energy security?
7 Apr 2022
Gavin Starks
News
SmartDCC DSP Transformation – a future Digitalised Energy System
15 Mar 2022
Gavin Starks
Energy
News
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SSEN Transmission and IB1 launch project on coping with extreme weather
10 Mar 2022
Gavin Starks
Energy
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How Open Energy enables RIIO-ED2
23 Feb 2022
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
News
How Open Energy can support delivery of our Digital Spine
11 Feb 2022
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Icebreaking in 2021
31 Dec 2021
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
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Open Energy: Data Access Specifications
16 Dec 2021
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Finance
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Chancellor: UK will be the world’s first net zero financial centre
2 Nov 2021
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
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Open Energy — Overview
21 Sep 2021
Gavin Starks
Finance
Opinion
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Can enabling access to data using open standards help finance Net Zero?
20 Sep 2021
Gavin Starks
Briefing
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How Icebreaker One is enabling to the UK’s national data strategy
14 Sep 2021
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
News
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Sign up to join the Open Energy Pilot Steering & Advisory Groups
9 Sep 2021
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
News
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Open Energy — PILOT PHASE — roadmap
8 Sep 2021
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
News
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Open Energy Q&A with ENA members
26 Aug 2021
Gavin Starks
Media
Modernising energy metadata to speed up the transition to net zero
12 Aug 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
Energy Data Taskforce: Two Years On
28 Jul 2021
Gavin Starks
Finance
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G7 has mandated TCFD — is it enough?
22 Jul 2021
Gavin Starks
Briefing
Energy
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Transport
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UK strategy — Digitalising our energy system for net zero: strategy and action plan
20 Jul 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
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Outcomes of Open Energy Phase 3 Policy Consultations
15 Jul 2021
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Media
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Imagining Climate Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
13 Jul 2021
Gavin Starks
Updates
Notes from the second EDVP Advisory Group meeting
7 Jul 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
Six things to know about Ofgem’s plans to help the energy sector use data better
24 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
Opinion
Opinion
Naming conventions
24 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
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Finance
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Water quality focussed Parametric Insurance
22 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
News
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Notes from the first Data Standards Advisory Group
16 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
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Mapping the Energy Data landscape
15 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
Share your Feedback: Open Energy Data Licensing Model
10 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
News
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Three Energy Data innovation calls — act now
3 Jun 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
Share your Feedback: Open Energy Data Access Conditions
17 May 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
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EDVP Research Sign-up
17 May 2021
Gavin Starks
Opinion
How do the data and climate agendas align?
13 May 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
Share your Feedback: Open Energy Data Classes
13 Apr 2021
Gavin Starks
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Milestones
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A year of Icebreaking
1 Apr 2021
Gavin Starks
Assets
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Who’s who in Climate Finance Initiatives (CFI)?
23 Feb 2021
Gavin Starks
Media
Opinion
How can data sharing help deliver net-zero?
10 Feb 2021
Gavin Starks
News
News
Open Energy gets UK Government backing
3 Feb 2021
Gavin Starks
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2020 review — 185 days of icebreaking
31 Dec 2020
Gavin Starks
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Report — Enabling secure and scalable non-financial data flows to help deliver
demonstrable
Net Zero
9 Dec 2020
Gavin Starks
Energy
Energy
News
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Linked Data for the Energy System
2 Dec 2020
Gavin Starks
News
News
Protected: Review energy data needs
23 Nov 2020
Gavin Starks
News
News
Open Energy webinar at London Climate Action Week
17 Nov 2020
Gavin Starks
News
News
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Welcome to Open Energy
5 Oct 2020
Gavin Starks
Assets
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Data Spectrum for Energy
2 Oct 2020
Gavin Starks
Briefing
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Open energy to help UK modernise energy sector data and help deliver net-zero
16 Sep 2020
Gavin Starks
Opinion
Product innovation is harder than platform innovation
10 Sep 2020
Gavin Starks
Briefing
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Open Energy — MEDA Phase 2
2 Sep 2020
Gavin Starks
Milestones
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IB1 Update 2020-09-01
1 Sep 2020
Gavin Starks
Finance
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Announcing Project Cygnus
3 Aug 2020
Gavin Starks
Briefing
Opinion
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Defining the data infrastructure for climate-ready investment
31 Jul 2020
Gavin Starks
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ecosystem-map
Finance
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SERI Standard for Environment, Risk and Insurance — reports now live
22 Jul 2020
Gavin Starks
Milestones
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Icebreaker One — team update
17 Jul 2020
Gavin Starks
Opinion
London Climate Action Week — Webinar (recording)
8 Jul 2020
Gavin Starks
Briefing
Updates
Introducing five Icebreaker Clusters
22 May 2020
Gavin Starks
Finance
Milestones
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SERI Product Innovation begins
15 May 2020
Gavin Starks
Briefing
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UNEP & Digital Public Goods
10 Mar 2020
Gavin Starks
Opinion
A wealth of outcomes or just outcomes of wealth?
25 Feb 2020
Gavin Starks
Briefing
Briefing — Climate Financial Risk
24 Feb 2020
Gavin Starks
Opinion
Broken data-flows are wasting all our time & inhibiting innovation
4 Feb 2020
Gavin Starks
Finance
Updates
Icebreaker One launches with £1m funding to develop urgently needed climate-ready financial products
22 Jan 2020
Gavin Starks
Stories
UN lists Icebreaker One as a top-20 agent of change
21 Jan 2020
Gavin Starks
Milestones
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Icebreaker One at Davos
21 Jan 2020
Gavin Starks
Opinion
Research
EU Taxonomy — what is it and what does it mean?
21 Jan 2020
Gavin Starks
Updates
Three priorities for data innovation
9 Jan 2020
Gavin Starks
Milestones
Reports
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IB1 review 2019
31 Dec 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
Icebreaker One @ COP25 in Madrid
7 Dec 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
Defining the data infrastructure for climate-ready investment
4 Nov 2019
Gavin Starks
Assets
Opinion
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How might regulation enable financial innovation to deliver a net-zero future?
17 Oct 2019
Gavin Starks
Milestones
Updates
Opening Icebreaker One at UN HQ
24 Sep 2019
Gavin Starks
Stories
Building the web of environmental data
11 Sep 2019
Gavin Starks
ecosystem-map
Reports
Research
Who’s who in Climate, Environment, Finance, Infrastructure and Data—the CEFID Directory
10 Sep 2019
Gavin Starks
Milestones
Reports
House of Lords roundtable summary 2019-07-10
12 Jul 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
IB1 update 2019-06-26 revised summary
26 Jun 2019
Gavin Starks
Reports
Executive Summary
17 May 2019
Gavin Starks
Reports
The Icebreaker One view
17 May 2019
Gavin Starks
Milestones
Reports
Updates
Open discussion paper 2019-05-13
13 May 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
IB1 update 2019-04-29 — pre-Geneva
29 Apr 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
IB1 update 2019-04-22 — “We need to change course now”
22 Apr 2019
Gavin Starks
Stories
Updates
IB1 update 2019-04-15 — Risk modelling workshop
15 Apr 2019
Gavin Starks
Built World
Stories
Icebreaker stories — an introduction
11 Apr 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
IB1 update 2019-04-08 — New Supporters
8 Apr 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
IB1 update 2019-04-01 — call to action
1 Apr 2019
Gavin Starks
Updates
IB1 update 2019-03-25 — Hello
25 Mar 2019
Gavin Starks
Briefing
Milestones
Pre-launch timeline & background
1 Jan 2019
Gavin Starks
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