CDS Customer Data focuses on writing free, open specifications for providing utility customer data access, in order to facilitate carbon emissions calculations and decarbonization efforts.
CDS Customer Data is part of LF Energy’s broader initiative to build open, interoperable data standards that accelerate the energy transition. This group develops free, open specifications for utility customer data access, enabling critical use cases like carbon accounting, energy efficiency projects, grid flexibility, and building benchmarking.
Why It Matters
Electric utilities and large electricity users alike face growing demands to decarbonize operations, report carbon emissions, and participate in distributed energy markets. But without standardized access to high-quality customer energy data, these goals are difficult and costly to achieve.
CDS Customer Data offers a collaborative path forward by defining how customer data can be shared securely and consistently across platforms, regions, and systems.
By adopting and contributing to CDS specifications, stakeholders can:
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Enable Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions accounting with accurate, verifiable customer energy usage data.
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Streamline decarbonization projects by making granular, standardized data available to solution providers.
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Support grid-interactive efficient buildings and DERs with timely customer data for demand-side flexibility.
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Benchmark building performance with standardized data fields that simplify energy disclosure and compliance.
Get Involved
CDS is open to participation from all – utilities, energy service providers, technology developers, building managers, researchers, and regulators. To contribute to the specification itself, all you need is a free membership with LF Energy’s Specification Support Program (LFESS).
You can reach the community on the following channels:
- Slack (#cds-customer-data-wg)
- Mailing List
- Join an Upcoming Meeting
