News Release | GBA Announces Green Button Directory Services℠
Green Button Alliance Announces Green Button Directory Services℠
Green Button Directory℠ Includes Utilities, Third-Party Solution Providers, and Vendors Leveraging Standards-based Green Button Energy-Usage Data; Supports Awareness and Deployment of Energy-Management and Clean-Energy Solutions
September 27, 2024 - The Green Button Alliance (GBA), which fosters the development, compliance, and adoption of the industry’s Green Button energy and water data-access and -sharing protocol, today unveiled its Green Button Directory Services℠ (GBDS). The Green Button Directory℠ is three comprehensive, searchable listings of utilities, community choice aggregators (CCAs), municipalities, & co-ops; third-party apps & services providers; and utility-platform vendors that offer utility solutions leveraging the industry’s secure, Green Button Energy and Water Data-Access and -Sharing standard. The Green Button Directory enables users to easily locate solutions utilizing Green Button standardized utility data, while supporting awareness and deployment of new energy-management and clean-energy solutions.
Green Button Directory Services (GBDS):
- The GBDS is a free resource, maintained by the GBA, that includes a continuously updated listing of Green Button implementations and Green Button Certified℠ solutions.
- Utilities can easily locate a variety of third-party energy-management and clean-energy solutions for onboarding with their Green Button Connect My Data® (CMD) platforms.
- Third-Party Solution Providers can find utilities, CCAs, municipalities, and co-ops that provide secure, standards-based Green Button electricity-, natural gas-, and water-usage data to their customers and their customers’ authorized solution providers.
- Customers, including Residential, Commercial, and Industrial customers, can easily determine if their local utilities offer standardized Green Button usage and billing data, access direct links to those utility pages, and find Green Button solution-enabled apps and services that work with their local utilities.
- Utility-Platform Providers: Utilities interested in providing Green Button Connect My Data or Download My Data® solutions can easily research solutions in the Directory’s Platform Providers listing.
“The Green Button Alliance’s Green Button Directory Services bring together data-sharing platforms and services into a single, up-to-the-minute resource; allowing users to easily locate the ideal solutions for their analytics, reporting, and energy-management needs,” said Jeremy J. Roberts, Executive Director, Green Button Alliance. “By connecting utilities, third-parties, and vendors—and enabling customers to find direct links to the right pages on utility and third-party websites—the Directory helps to support the utility data-access and data-sharing needs of the energy-management and clean-energy markets.”
The Green Button Directory is now available to the public as a free resource and is being updated continually as utility and third-party company listing-approvals are received.
The Green Button Directory is open to all utilities, solution providers, and utility-platform vendors serving their customers with Green Button solutions. Companies interested in being listed in the free Directory, can send a request to: https://www.greenbuttonalliance.org/contact-us to receive simple instructions.
About Green Button Connect My Data® (CMD)
The Green Button Connect My Data (CMD) standard enables utilities to safely provide access to interval usage and billing data and allows utility customers—including residential, businesses, commercial and industrial, cities and municipalities, or customer-authorized third-party solutions—to seamlessly and securely obtain detailed and highly precise interval-meter data to inform energy- and water-management decision-making. This is accomplished while ensuring customer data are protected and privacy is maintained. Utilities can maximize their metering infrastructure by utilizing their Green Button CMD platform to offer a host of new energy-data-enabled services. Energy managers can access standardized Green Button energy data in the Green Button format to streamline energy-management and consumption reporting. Third-party providers of consumer-centric services can more-rapidly develop applications that work seamlessly with other Green Button implementations.
About Green Button Download My Data® (DMD)
The Green Button Download My Data (DMD) standard enables utility customers—including residential, businesses, commercial and industrial, & cities and municipalities—to access and download their historical and current usage data from their utility’s website in the industry standard Green Button format to analyze trends and make informed resource-management choices using in-house or off-the-shelf applications; or, they can share their downloaded files with applications or service providers for further assistance.
About the Green Button Alliance
The Green Button Alliance (GBA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed to foster the development, compliance, and global adoption of Green Button implementations. The GBA is composed of leading utilities, governmental departments and agencies, solution providers, and affiliated organizations that collaborate to advance the Green Button standards. The Green Button standards enable energy consumers around the world to access and share their energy- and water-usage data to better analyze and manage their consumption. The GBA educates the market on the broad benefits of the Green Button standards, encourages standards-based application development, and administers the Green Button Testing and Certification Program to accelerate the delivery of standardized Green Button technologies to energy and water consumers.
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