Making Energy Data

Accessible & Interoperable Framing Opportunities and Challenges for Open and Big Data

in Access, Renewables and Efficiency

Rob Bectel

Enabling Open Government

Open Government and Energy

Data Initiatives

Date

DOE issued press release to launch OpenEI

as its Open Government Initiative

12/09

DOE releases Open Government Plan,

which highlights OpenEI

4/10

OpenEI recognized by the White House as a

Flagship Open Government Initiative

4/10

OpenEI featured on White House

Innovations Gallery

1/11

White House Announces Energy Data

Initiative

5/12

OpenEI included in OMB Federal Digital

Strategy

8/12

OSTP Open Access Memo Issued to

Federal Agencies

2/13

Open Government Initiative & DOE Data

Catalog Federation with Data.gov

Today

Open Data Memo 1313

On May 9th, 2013, President Obama issued the executive order making “Open and Machine-Readable” the new default for government information.

Fundamentally transforms the way in which Federal Government creates, aggregates and manages data.

Find a clear set of instructions for what to do posted on the official Project Open Data website on GitHub - http://project-open-data.github.io/

Open Data Public Access Plan

The DOE proposes a model for ensuring public access to unclassified

scholarly publications that provides the public with access to the best

available version of the article via the Public Access Gateway for Energy

and Science (PAGES)

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will

ensure specific research data are submitted to the Open Energy

Information Platform (OpenEI).

This integration will include use of the Project Open

Data metadata schema to describe each dataset

supporting broader use and understanding of

information in private or non-profit sectors.

An Open Data Platform for DOE

Open Data Platform for DOE

Open Data Platform for the

Energy Community too!

An Open Data Platform for DOE

Wiki enables

crowdsourced data

contributions and

information

development

An Open Data Platform for DOE

Community enables

energy data

conversations and builds

the user base

An Open Data Platform for DOE

Datasets allows

open data

uploads, access,

and data

provenance.

Built using:

An Open Data Platform for DOE

Enabling Access & Provenance

DOE Program Data Repositories

Secure data

Open Data Success #1: GDR Data

• Collects, manages, curates, data from

DOE-funded geothermal projects

• Metadata provided to the public

immediately to support transparency

• DOI numbers assigned via

connection with the Office of

Scientific and Technical Information

(OSTI)

• Federates to the National

Geothermal Data System, Data.gov

and others!

1,193 publicly accessible resources

from 322 submissions, downloaded

~1,100 times per year by academia,

industry, labs, researchers and DOE.

Holds data secure until data is

ready to be released

Open Data Success #2 - Utility Rate Database

Who uses the database/API? • ~50% solar industry/consultants

• ~30% researchers

Solar companies/consultants/software

developers pulling URDB data:

• Deloitte

• PSD Consulting

• Conservation

Services Group

• Bluewave Capital

• EcoLogic

• BrightBox

• Energy Periscope

• Lightwave Solar

• CentroSolar

• Renewable Energy

Advisors

System Advisor Model (SAM)

Open Data Success #3: SunShot Catalyst Teams

PVimpact

Clearly Energy

Open Data Success #4: AFDC Station Data

• Alternative Fuel Station Locator:

provides alternative fuels station data in

both human and machine readable

formats.

• Mobile application is available!

• The API is being used by:

• General Motors

• KIA

• Volkswagen

• Chevy Spark

• EPA

• FAST

• Google

• MapQuest

• OnStar

• DOT

• National Park Service 2.6M views/web calls annually

Vehicle Technologies Office Sponsored

Open Data Success #5: Green

Button

Three years to go from zero customers with standardized access to 60M customers.

Public-Private partnership with White House, DOE, DOC(NIST), utilities, industry vendors, third party analytics companies and innovators.

About 100 applications and software services for homes and businesses built or compatible with Green Button data. Growing through new industry Green Button Alliance and DOE challenges.

Conclusion

Accessible

Understandable

More data is better

Data use cases will surprise you

Encourage data reuse

Data provenance is important

Transparent

Empower entrepreneurs Web services Contribute yours

Build on others data

Power in numbers