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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 17:11

I'm so tired of dealing with Yet Another Format for energy data.

In 2021 I wrote about how we were dealing with roughly 24 ever so slightly different formats. Well, that has gone up now and we're handling more than 70 and new formats appearing every week.

https://blog.ldodds.com/2021/07/12/24-different-tabular-formats-for-half-hourly-energy-data/

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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 17:14

A big driver for that increase has been the recent policy change that requires energy companies to provide non-domestic customers with access to data.

Its now slightly easier to get access to data. But in a flurry formats produced by a range of new and updated portals. No coordination in sector.

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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 17:16

I'm talking here about metered gas and electricity data.

There's even less consensus around access to data from other sources. Solar systems are slightly more likely to have APIs but no standardisation there either. And those aren't covered by that policy change.

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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 17:24

One major energy supplier updated their portal recently to state that they make no guarantees that any data they provide is in any way accurate. Excellent work

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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 17:27

A slightly more coherent version of this thread from when I got frustrated about this earlier in the year.

Keep talking myself out actually trying to gather some consensus around a standard, because I've got a million other things to prioritise.

https://blog.ldodds.com/2024/03/02/data-format-design-is-a-ux-issue/

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Written by Stuart :progress_pride: on 2024-10-31 at 21:35

@ldodds Oh. A different type of solar systems to the ones that first came to my mind. 🤣

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Written by drs1969 (David Smith) on 2024-10-31 at 17:15

@ldodds you can always come back to scholarly publishing! We've had that sorted for years... 🤣

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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 17:16

@drs1969 lol

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Written by David Bailey on 2024-10-31 at 18:03

@ldodds I think others are frustrated too. What do you make of Project #Mercury from #OctopusEnergy? Could it be the solution to this data hellscape?

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Written by Leigh Dodds on 2024-10-31 at 18:32

@DBailey635

I hasn't heard of it until you mentioned it. Will take a look.

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Written by David Bailey on 2024-10-31 at 19:35

@ldodds Only just launched by Greg Jackson at the Energy Tech Summit. https://youtu.be/dYUjiW6bcs4?si=ByMWb_G8MI33ZZNy

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