Utility Data and Connectivity—How Climate Changes Everything

Daniel Roesler is the founder and Chief Innovation Officer at UtilityAPI and the maintainer of Connectivity and Customer Data working groups for the Carbon Data Specification Consortium (CDSC) at LF Energy. Previously, he served as the Vice-Chair on the board of the Green Button Alliance (GBA) and an active contributor to the OpenADE technical working group. He has extensive experience in utility customer data access best practices and has participated in many customer data regulatory proceedings in North America. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.

Abstract:

Climate change and low-cost renewable energy resources are causing massive disruptions for the energy grid. In this presentation, we will discuss the realities and bottlenecks of a transitioning energy grid. Specifically, we will trace back why scalable utility data connectivity is so critical to our next generation of energy grid systems, as well as the current state of utility data policies and technical standards.