In September 2013, Sasha Sud presented an overview of the Green Button to the Young Professionals in Energy association, highlighting the power of energy data to change the industry in Ontario and around the world. More: http://datacatalyst.marsdd.com/energy
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Green Button in Ontario - A presentation to the Young Professionals in Energy
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Young Professionals in Energy!
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Green Button in Ontario!
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! !11th September, 2013!
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! ! ! !presented by -!
! ! ! ! ! !Sasha Sud!
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¨ Smart Meter Overview!
¨ Why Smart Grid Data and Analytics?!
¨ Ontario & Electricity Data Access!
¨ What is Green Button Today? !
¨ Green Button in Ontario!
¨ Where Are We Today?!
¨ Questions?!
3. Ontario:
¨ 80 utilities
¨ 4.7 million smart meters
¨ 2.6 million are green button
enabled
Image courtesy of Windsor Star
The United States:
• Over 3,000 utilities
• 145 million customers
• 37.3 million smart meters
• 16 million are Green Button
enabled
North America:
• 80% penetration by 2019
4. grid
$8.7 billion
consumer
$7.1 billion
enterprise
$4.2 billion
Source:
utility analytics market (2020)
$20 billion
Fault detection & outage
Load prediction
Power quality/power factor
Weather and renewables
DR/virtual power plant
Theft analysis
Predictive asset mgmt
Insights for bill mgmt
Education
Retrofits
Savings verification
Real estate
Heating and cooling mgmt
Solar right sizing
Industrial site energy
management
Machinery optimization
HVAC optimization
District heating system
performance
Distributed generation
Demand response
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Significant amount of industry review in Ontario about !
the benefits of access to electricity data.!
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Smart Grid Forum !
• Modernizing Ontario’s Electricity System: Next Steps: May, 2011.!
• Access to Consumer Data: A Vignette: December, 2012.!
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MaRS Discovery District white paper!
• The Market Impact of Accessible Energy Data: September 2012.!
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Ontario Energy Board!
• Supplemental Report on the Smart Grid: February, 2013.!
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Office of the Information Privacy Commissioner of Ontario!
• Privacy By Design and Third Party Access to Customer Energy Usage Data: Jan, 2013.!
• Privacy by Design: Fundamentals for Smart Grid App Developers: August, 2013.!
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The Green Button standard allows consumers to access and
share their electricity consumption data in a consistent,
electronic and secure manner. !
- Green Button Download My Data (GB DMD): !
- goes directly from the utility to the customer in a consistent format. !
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- Green Button Connect My Data (GB CMD): !
- automated, secure electronic data transfer from the utility to a third
party based on customer authorization. !
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- The Green Button Standard allows: !
- Energy usage information to be shared in a common XML format (NAESB
ESPI standard).!
- Applicable in the following Markets: !
- Residential, commercial and industrial.!
- Type of data: !
- Initially electricity, but the data standard is extensible to gas and water data.!
- Timeliness of data:!
- Not real time data, but 24 hour-old back office data. !
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- The Ontario Minister of Energy launched the Green Button
Initiative and the EDAP Working Group in November, 2012. !
- EDAP working group is jointly lead by
MaRS and Ministry of Energy and is
comprised of seven electric utilities,
OEB, OPA, Ontario IPC & IESO. !
11. Working
Group
Download
My
Data
subcommi2ee
Connect
My
Data
subcommi2ee
Pilots
subcommi2ee
Communica6on
subcommi2ee
Vendor Group
18
providers
developing
solu6ons
in
Canada
12. – Green Button Download My Data implemented across five utilities that
cover over 2.6 million households and small businesses.!
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– Launched the Ontario Green Button website www.greenbuttondata.ca !
– Received clear direction on privacy requirements related to the Green
Button standard from both the provincial and the federal privacy
commissioners offices.!
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15. – Green Button Connect My Data.!
• The Green Button Connect My Data Reference Architecture for
implementation in Ontario has been posted on the NAESB website.
• Pilots to be launched in Q4 2013 with Hydro One and London Hydro to test
the implementation of the Green Button Connect My Data Reference
Architecture for Ontario.
– Ongoing developer support for Green Button enabled Solution
development in Ontario.!
• Facilitating access to a GB CMD test-lab to allow developers to test
applications that leverage the Green Button standard.
• Established a Green Button peer2peer group for companies interested in
developing solutions based on the standard.
• Organizing developer events to increase grassroots participation in
application development.
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