OPPORTUNITIES

Green Button is a common data standard that is being adopted across North America to allow consumers to share their electricity consumption data with app developers and solution providers in a secure and privacy-enabled way. Instead of having to customize your solution or service for every utility in the province, you can now develop products based on a standard data format that works across Ontario and conforms to a similar standard in the US.

Green Button allows you to easily access a customer’s energy usage information and provide your value-added insights, recommendations and controls. Discussions are under way to extend Green Button to natural gas as well.

GREEN BUTTON IN NUMBERS

4.6 million smart meters in Ontario
Over 60% of Ontarians have access to Green Button (Download My Data) and 100 million customers in the US have access
10 utilities in Ontario are already on board

Green Button is not a proprietary software solution but an industry standard that allows you to build your own solution.

GREEN BUTTON USE-CASES

1/ Residential customers

Track and analyze energy use in a various way
Engage customers to take control of their energy (alarms, reports, tips, challenges, rewards)
Optimize cost-effectiveness of rooftop solar projects
Provide future home buyers with historical consumption data (e.g. MLS)
Assist with retrofit planning to increase energy efficiency

2/ Commercial, Institutional and Industrial customers

Monitor electricity consumption on a daily basis & compare to historical data baselines
Set up consumption, cost targets, and alerts
Quickly identify buildings deviating from “normal” behavior and implement corrective actions
Better manage energy budgets using projected and avoided costs, cumulative savings
Create and export energy consumption and GHG reports (Reg 397/11)