Energy

Members, collaborators and observers

Programmes that, through Open Energy™, are pioneering the discovery, access and use of energy data include:

• Open Energy (Creating a connected web of data for our clean energy future)
• Open Net Zero (enabling data discovery at market scale, with industry)
• Mission Innovation (Green Powered Future Mission, with multinational stakeholders)
• Perseus (unlocking sustainable finance with assurable smart data)

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 inconsistent data standards. 

Our approach helps drive the design, implementation and adoption of open standards to create assurable data flows between organisations. This enables assurable Open Data and pre-authorised Shared Data and ultimately builds confidence across the ecosystem. 

We help build trust and unlock data access by bringing together domain experts from across the ecosystem – including large and small companies, regulated and unregulated actors, and the public sector – into Advisory Groups and Sector Steering Groups to collectively shape the future of energy. 

Why ‘Open Energy’?

• It opens up the market around energy data
• It enables open interoperability and cohesion across the energy ecosystem
• It is an open standard: the standard itself is licensed openly: both words and code
• It enables assurable Open Data publishing for data that should be public
• It enables open access to Shared data for private and confidential data
• It connects open APIs as a shared and common technical implementation
• It is for the energy sector and those using energy sector data: it addresses energy as a whole category
• It enables data discovery, access and use, while enabling permission and access control
• It is assurable and auditable
• It is, where applicable, compliant with current and emerging regulations
• It never stores or ‘sees’ any underlying data (it only ‘sees’ metadata and Open Data).