Non-profit promoting standards-based energy data portability. Innovation in software, renewables and energy efficiency!
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Here's our org in a single Tweet:
M:d: Customer energy data is theirs. Utilities as stewards have an obligation to serve the public by facilitating data portability
Utilities: No. Possession is 9/10ths of the law, so...<running down clock>
M:d: See you at the hearing!
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Here's the Pennsylvania PUC's draft rule that would put the fox in charge of the henhouse
"Rather than the Commission refereeing distributed resources, let's have a conflicted entity do it. What could go wrong?"
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Throwback: In 1999, the Pennsylvania PUC was struggling with "Electronic Data Interchange" (EDI) to enable retail electric choice. This is back during the "crypto wars" where the federal government tried to criminalize Pretty Good Privacy (PGP, now ubiquitous public-key crypto).
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Utilities: Green Button Connect represents an intolerable risk to privacy and cybersecurity. It's automated and that's scary!
Also utilities: The only sources of known privacy violations are human errors when we screw up on emails.
Time to ban email!
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Mission:data retweeted
Third-party demand response provider @voltusinc and @mission_data say utility barriers to accessing smart meter data are blocking gigawatts of grid relief in PJM, the biggest U.S. energy market — and they're asking regulators to step in:
canarymedia.com/articles/uti…
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"Access to real-time electricity data should be a basic consumer right."
utilitydive.com/news/access-…
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Why does @EIAgov still collect this in 861 files? "Daily digital access" is so 2010. Many utilities don't even bother to respond. It should be updated to ask not whether customers can see their own info (they should!) but whether access can be electronically delegated.
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May 29
Periodic reminder that all Pennsylvania utilities have staunchly opposed data access. Here is a helpful summary from the PaPUC when CPower sought a license. The utilities responded with a resounding "no."
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May 27
Alex, I'll take egregious billing system errors for 800.
One way to discourage distributed solar is for the utility to play Kafkaesque games with your bills for 18 months
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May 20
One of California's interesting attempts to get rate IDs more seamlessly to appliances like water heaters. The QR codes are supposed to identify your correct rate plan, which can be more easily shared with devices.
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May 12
SoCal Edison, when asking for $3.5 billion for AMI v2.0: Cybersecurity is no problem! No worries!
SCE when third parties ask for customer data: AMI v2.0 presents grave cybersecurity risks!
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LG&E continues to lie about its Green Button Connect in its annual AMI report.
LG&E admitted to us that it DOES NOT have GBC, but it's happy to tell the KY PSC otherwise.
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Any sufficiently advanced utility incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
h/t Matt Roderick
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Apr 28
We filed a motion to dismiss SDG&E's $825M AMI v2.0 application because it said nothing -- zip, zero, zilch -- about compliance with real-time usage data orders.
SDG&E's response? "The rules are malleable when we say they are malleable."
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Mission:data retweeted
Apr 13
A big problem in the Texas electricity market: Residential customers can do exactly the same thing in terms of reducing their demand as industrial customers but not reap the same reward.
@OctopusEnergyUS @teslaenergy @GotRhythmHQ & @basepowerco team up today to propose a reform:
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Apparently, @ProvoPower has Green Button Download My Data but it returns an empty XML file every time. 🤦♂️
Certification.
End-to-end testing.
That's how this gets fixed.
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Adding new generation is fine, but it will be twenty years before this policy makes any impact in NJ.
Meanwhile, a BPU docket has been languishing SINCE 2022 (EO20110716) that would give VPPs access to energy data, reducing peak demand.
LIVE NOW: Join me as I sign legislation that paves the way for new nuclear power in New Jersey. x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMkjP…
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Many utility tactics of blocking access to customer energy usage data could violate U.S. antitrust law, preventing lower-cost solutions from entering the market, such as VPPs.
cc @openmarkets @sandeepvaheesan @danielahanley
pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/…
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📢Alert: Utilities are going to shut off access to energy data, with the Iran war as justification.
VPPs, clean energy firms, and nonprofits will be exposed to abrupt terminations.
Here's how to fight back:
linkedin.com/pulse/utilities…
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4) Watch out for self-interested cybersecurity consultants that are utility affiliates.
This is the "self-licking ice cream cone."
Dragos writes scary-sounding reports, Xcel hobbles data access, and Xcel shareholders get payouts from Dragos's IPO or acquisition.
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5) We must remain vigilant. Demand evidence, scrutinize affiliate transactions, require competitive bidding on cybersecurity assessments. Don't let utilities jump to rash conclusions.
Otherwise, it's just arbitrary @AttributionDice.
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