Unlocking data-driven innovation in the UK energy sector.

Open Energy makes it easy organisations to discover, access and securely share energy data. It helps the data flow peer-to-peer and never stores any raw data.

Its services include

1. Community: an expert network of professionals
2. Governance: co-design of data sharing Schemes
3. Trust Services: Search services and Energy Sector Trust Framework for Scheme implementation

These services have been co-funded designed in collaboration with government, industry, regulators and code bodies. It has been financially supported by UKRI and BEIS, and has included observers from DESNZ, Ofgem, RECco, SECco, NPSA, NCSC as well as active participation from dozens of industry actors and Members.

IB1 Open Energy™  is developed and operated by IcebreakerOne.org, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organisation making data work harder to deliver Net Zero. For more details, please see https://ib1.org/energy/uk/

Frequently Asked Questions

Open Energy makes it easy to search, access, and securely share energy data. Supported by UK Government via the IUK and BEIS funding, it convenes stakeholders to help design and implement data sharing Schemes, where applicable utilising the Energy Sector Trust Framework.

There are three parts of the Open Energy service. Energy Search makes it easy to find data that’s already openly shared. Access Control makes it more efficient to access commercial data that can’t be shared openly by automating security and legal checks. The Forum gives you a say in how the Open Energy service develops.

Open Energy Membership means your organisation can use the most valuable part of the service: Access Control, which automates data licensing, security checks and technical integration. Access Control means organisations holding data can publish it securely, knowing their data will only ever be shared according to the rules and policies they’ve agreed to. Organisations who need to access data can access hundreds of datasets with just one round of authentication, saving time and money by avoiding countless data requests and contract negotiations.

Modernise access to energy data across the sector and related industries, and address the climate crisis via economic innovation.

Members help co-design Open Energy to enable data sharing between organisations.

This also aid compliance with security policies and emerging data-sharing regulations including the Data (Use and Access) Bill, GDPR, Data Best Practice, the Digitalisation Action Plan, and the Energy Digitalisation Task Force.

Members of Open Energy are represented at Steering and Advisory Groups.

Open Energy is governed by expert groups providing input from across the industry, regulators, code bodies and government. We work in an open and transparent way and share regular updates on progress at ib1.org/energy. 

With the support of a collaboratively defined Scheme, yes. 

Personal data is defined under GDPR as: ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject).’  Note that this is either directly or indirectly – where data or information is combined. Data ceases to be personal when it is made anonymous, and an individual is no longer identifiable. For data to be truly anonymised, the anonymisation must be irreversible. Data that has been encrypted, de-identified or pseudonymised but can be used to re-identify a person is still personal data.