A consortium lead by LF Energy member UtilityAPI has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy Office of Electricity as part of the “Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2”. The consortium, which also includes LF Energy and electrical utility Silicon Valley Clean Energy, was named one of nine “Phase 1 Data Track Winners”, each of which receive $75,000 and will move onto the next phase of the competition for a chance to win another $200,000 and a $75,000 voucher to be used at a national laboratory. Phase 2 winners will be announced in January 2025.
The solution proposed by UtilityAPI and the consortium revolves around using LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification “to collaborate with technology companies and utilities to develop new standards that streamline third-party vendor registration and connectivity with utilities”. An overview of the solution explained by UtilityAPI CTO Daniel Roesler is available to watch. The funds will go towards further development of the specification.
The Carbon Data Specification is a data dictionary for raw data and a standard for data requirements that enable energy data access for measuring, quantifying, and tracking carbon emissions from energy production and consumption. These standards and requirements should boost confidence in data sources, increase data utilization, promote scalability, and enable data aggregation for centralized platforms, which shall support and inform grid decarbonization pathways and decision-making.
