Mission:data

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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@MikeBull_MN Better technology helps. Too often regulators endorse Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), which is outdated and insecure. The Illinois example occurred because regulators were asleep at the wheel. Modern data portability is more secure.

https://t.co/77Sb0q5JNQ

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There's a lot to be said about this.

But a critical fact is missing from these media reports: Utilities' retail supply web portals (like Ameren Illinois's) have a feature (or bug) that made this "scraping" possible.

Let's have a look.

https://t.co/ZvUElwTGlk

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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!

[Jeff St. John @jeffsaintjohn]

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:
https://t.co/jgtCCoeX4m

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"Access to real-time electricity data should be a basic consumer right."

https://t.co/cz9rxn4Eub

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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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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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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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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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Rhode Island PUC hearing now on Green Button Connect:

https://t.co/3GXGpjG9qS

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@TKavulla @ComEd Old thread, but....Travis, do you have an ICC docket # for the decision requiring utilities to settle wholesale load to customer demand as measured by AMI?

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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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@mattyglesias Only 11% of Americans are on dynamic pricing, despite 15+ years of advanced meters.

State regulators are very hesitant.

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From 2025 report. More falsehoods from LG&E-KU.

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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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@StephenJ_Caruso It would be even better if the PaPUC *followed state law* and used the $2.2 billion already spent on smart meters to enable demand response.

https://t.co/cfCeDLR7KY

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Here is the PaPUC back in 2015 siding with utilities and memorializing an illegal arrangement (contrary to Act 129) that is a de facto ban on competitive residential demand response. The Governor has done nothing to remedy this, despite appointing 2 Cmrs and the chair!

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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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@hasannazar There's also just garden-variety incompetence. The IRA's energy efficiency rebates and Smart Grid Investment Grants were a disaster.

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@JesseJenkins This only exists because of magical "deemed savings" numbers. Site-level metering data would eliminate this scam. But of course virtually no utility in PJM provides meter data to aggregators.

https://t.co/nkF7GvAz8V

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@TKavulla Yup. And also these problems would disappear if we settled to site-level meter data. All of the magic tricks of "deemed energy savings" should be kicked out of wholesale markets!