To support adopters, the SGIP is initiating a new Green Button Priority Action Plan in coordination with the Utility Communications Architecture International Users Group (UCAIug)whose members are helping to evolve the standards that constitute the Green Button within its OpenADE task force. This support includes accelerating the development of testing and certification processes and the instantiation of a new working group to manage the brand - defining the minimum collection of standards and capabilities that sporting the Green Button logo on a web page implies.
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With the click of a button, this technology is transforming how energy usage information is utilized by hundreds of thousands of individuals across the country. At the launch of the Green Button initiative in January, two of California's three largest utilities - Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric - provided live functionality on their websites and Southern California Edison (California's second largest utility), Glendale Power & Light, Oncor, Pepco Holdings Inc, and several other utilities across the country announced that they would plan to make the feature available later in 2012. Recently, nine more utilities made commitments to adopt Green Button and ensure that 27 million households will be able to access their own energy information. To date, utilities across the country will make data more accessible and user-friendly in seventeen states and the nation's capital: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C.
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A number of companies are already developing Web and smartphone applications and services for businesses and consumers that can use Green Button data to help consumers choose the most economical rate plan for their use patterns; deliver customized energy-efficiency tips; provide easy-to-use tools to size and finance rooftop solar panels; and conduct virtual energy audits that can cut costs for building owners and speed the initiation of retrofits. Developing innovative applications and services to help consumers understand and manage their energy use and understand the environmental impacts of that usage is a field ripe for American innovation.
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Read comments from those supporting Green Button.
Grid-Interop 2011 Green Button Live Demo - Dec 2011
Erich Gunther, Chairman and CTO of EnerNex and Anto Budiardjo, President and CEO of Clasma Events, demonstrate the power of standards to foster rapid innovation. In this case, mere weeks to days after being provided a set of example code that implements the NAESB ESPI standard and sample data sets, multiple vendors provided web site, hardware, and software to implement the Green Button concept that Erich and Anto demonstrated in real time at Grid-Interop.