Smart Data Innovation Guidebook ALPHA
  • Smart Data Innovation Guidebook
    • Introduction
    • What is this guidebook for?
    • Who is this guidebook for?
    • Guidebook Status
  • Key highlights and recommendations
  • Data Infrastructure
    • Data assets
    • Standards
    • Technologies
    • Policies and guidance
    • Organisations and communities
  • Smart Data Schemes
    • Open Banking
    • Open Finance
    • Open Communications
    • Open Energy
  • Innovation Progamme Inventory
    • Innovation Programme Inventory
    • Digital Sandbox
    • Open Banking
    • OpenActive
    • Data Pitch
    • Modernising Energy Data
  • Roadmap
    • Roadmap introduction
    • Building the ecosystem
      • Research the landscape
      • Convene the stakeholders
      • Assess the needs
    • Growing the ecosystem
      • Test and develop
      • Scale the initiative
    • Evolving the ecosystem
    • Conclusion
  • Appendix
    • Glossary
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  1. Innovation Progamme Inventory

Modernising Energy Data

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In the energy sector, data is key to unlocking system and consumer benefits and managing the transition to a low carbon economy. With energy increasingly decentralised, millions of assets – solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle charge points and heat pumps – will need to be able to communicate with the operators of our networks, market platforms and each other. New business models will emerge that will reduce consumer bills and system costs whilst driving decarbonisation.

The government, Ofgem and Innovate UK commissioned the Energy Data Taskforce to develop a digital and data strategy for the sector. The Taskforce provided , endorsed by the government and Ofgem, which focused on data visibility, infrastructure and asset visibility, operational optimisation, open markets and agile regulation.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Ofgem and Innovate UK have formed a new group, , to work collaboratively with industry and other parts of government and the public sector to implement the vision set out by the Energy Data Taskforce.

Modernising Energy Data funded the Open Energy initiative, a use case developed by the Open Energy team is shown in the data ecosystem map below:

Modernising Energy Data Access competition

Description: In response to the Energy Data Taskforce report, the competition challenges innovators to modernise access to energy data for the benefit of society. It offers funding and support to help the successful organisations to test and deliver their solutions.

Owner: Ofgem, BEIS, UKRI

Sector: Energy

Duration: 2020 -

Cost: £1.9M

Icebreaker One, Siemens and Electron were the first round winners

Data held by organisations in the energy sector

Following the first phase of the competition, the reviewers concluded that all three projects had demonstrated good progress in understanding the diverse data requirements of the energy sector, and developed ambitious proposals for the second phase.

Icebreaker One and Siemens were successful in progressing to phase 2.

Modernising Energy Data Applications

Description: Modernising Energy Data Applications is a competition to develop data applications that address the challenges faced by organisations and individuals to deliver net zero local energy systems.

Owner: Ofgem, BEIS, UKRI

Sector: Energy

Duration: 2020 -

Cost:

  • Modernising Energy Data Applications - £3.5M

The following participants received funding from the competitions

  • Urbantide

  • Alian

  • Brits Energy

  • City Science Corporation

  • Power My Hub

  • Zuhlke Engineering

  • GL Industrial Services UK

  • Mind Foundry

  • Advanced Infrastructure Technology

Data held by organisations in the energy sector related to net zero solutions for local energy systems

Five out of nine projects have progressed to the second phase of the competition, receiving further funding for development.

is a competition to support projects that use data with the aim to enable a decarbonised, decentralised and digitised energy future.

While the Modernising Energy Data Access competition focused on strengthening data architecture, the competition focuses on the development of data applications that address the needs of users and developers of local energy systems.

Modernising Energy Data Access
Open Energy - Modernising Energy Data Access Phase 3 Report
Modernising Energy Data Applications
Summaries of the projects that progressed to Phase 2
five recommendations
Modernising Energy Data
The is focussing on the retrofitting of social housing by a local authority, this map shows what this might look like with the implementation of Open Energy.
use case for Phase 2 of MEDA