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If you are an application developer: Green Button provides you with a means to analyze your customer's Energy Usage Information and provide your value added insights, recommendations, and controls. Any xml parser can be used to analyze the data structures represented in xml according to the ESPI schemas. Look at the examples on this page that show how to analyze Green Button data and present them to users. Of course, your creativity will provide more dramatic results and presentations tuned to customer needs and understanding. Learn more here.
Green Button Data Self Test Facility
Your implementation of Green Button can be tested by uploading a file for analysis on the following page:
Sample Data
The following sample data sets may be viewed. They represent some examples of Green Button Data:
- Daily load profile binned monthly for 12 months
- 15 minute load profile for 15 days
- Daily load profile binned daily for 12 months
- Daily load profile for 45 days
- Hourly load profile for 32 days
- Hourly load profile for 32 days excluding cost information
- 41 days of daily load profile binned monthly
- Sample monthly gas meter readings
- Hourly load profile binned daily for April
- Hourly load profile binned daily for August
- Hourly load profile binned daily for December
- Hourly load profile binned daily for February
- Hourly load profile binned daily for January
- Hourly load profile binned daily for July
- Hourly load profile binned daily for June
- Hourly load profile binned daily for March
- Hourly load profile binned daily for May
- Hourly load profile binned daily for November
- Hourly load profile binned daily for October
- Hourly load profile binned daily for September
- Monthly mid-monthly billing period
Water data is provided in an ESPI format to demonstrate the broad applicability of this data standard. While the Green Button is focused on electricity (and natural gas going forward) future work will consider extensions such as water.
Sample Regional Customer Data Courtesy of SDG&E
The following sample data sets may be viewed. Data provided by San Diego Gas and Electric. Data is Informational only and SDG&E does not warrant or is any way responsible for any outcomes when using this data.
- Coastal Multi-family hourly binned each 12 hours for 365 days
- Coastal Multi-family hourly binned daily for 365 days
- Coastal Multi-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Coastal Singe-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Desert Multi-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Desert Singe-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Inland Multi-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Inland Singe-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Mountain Multi-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Mountain Singe-family hourly binned monthly for 365 days
- Hourly load profile for 32 days for five usage points
- 15 minute load profile for 1 day for three usage points
Additional Technical Resources
The Green Button Initiative technical work is being performed in open communities for standards (NAESB), testing and certification (UCAIug), andsample implementations and collaboration (EnergyOS OpenESPI). Below are links that will help you monitor and hopefully participate in the work:
NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
- Priority Action Plan (PAP) 20: Green Button ESPI Evolution
- Green Button Initiative Page
- User Guide for the NIST Green Button Software Development Kit
ESPI Standards Development
- NAESB PAP10 Task Force Project Page
- NAESB ESPI Task Force Project Page
- NAESB ESPI and PAP10 email lists: to subscribe contact Denise Rager at NAESB - drager@naesb.org
- NAESB Green Button Portal
Testing and Certification
- UCAIug OpenADE Task Force (responsible for Green Button)
- UCAIug OpenADE Mail List
- UCAIug OpenADE Meetings: tuesdays at 3:00 EST - https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/844935738, 415-363-0070 code:844-935-738#
- UCAIug OpenADE Green Button Issues List
Reference Implementations and Developer Tools
- EnergyOS OpenESPI Mail List
- EnergyOS OpenESPI Web Site
- EnergyOS OpenESPI Meetings: mondays at 12:00 EST - https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/129392235, +1 (516) 453-0010 #129-392-235
- EnergyOS OpenESPI GitHub
- EnergyOS OpenESPI GitHub Issues List
Developmental Green Button Test Web Site
Green Button data, based on XML and XMLSchema, is as-simple-as-it-gets and is compatible with any OS or browser.
The project, championed by U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, standardizes the deliver[y] of household energy data and is seen as a catalyst to create an ecosystem for app developers to produce new services and products. 
Greenbiz.com: Calif. Utilities Embrace Green Button Project to Unleash Energy Data
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.