Open Energy for DNOs

Strategic development

DNOs are embarking on programmes to develop data and analytics solutions across their businesses and exploring potential use cases such as those related to assets, network planning, and customer data. They are exploring their roles in the sector as both data providers as well as data consumers. Icebreaker One will help inform DNO’s strategy, exploring use cases for data interoperability, discoverability and visibility to unlock efficiencies, innovation, and deliver a net-zero future.  Icebreaker One is supporting DNOs through:

• Icebreaking: a process to unpack internal and external data requirements through interviews, desk research, data value chain mapping and stakeholder curation to determine and prioritise use cases for development. [slide deck overview]
  
• Membership: a coalition of industry stakeholders, regulators and decision-makers, to co-design and ensure energy data can be shared across the sector in a rights-based, controlled, secure, cohesive and interoperable manner.

Icebreaking (£65k) 

Outcome: Data-enabled use case(s) with recommendations and business cases aligned with DNO’s digitalisation strategy. 

Process:

• Research to identify needs and identify and curate stakeholders to bring into the process  
• Research and workshop to identify, explore, scope and prioritise internal use cases  
• Mapping of the data value chain relevant to the use case(s). For example, mapping out the precise data needs related to the use cases, where it exists and how it can be accessed.
• Map alignment to business needs (value cases) and regulatory needs (e.g. Ofgem DSAP).
• Direct engagement with internal and external stakeholders to create buy-in
• Gap analysis (including data gaps and capability gaps)
• Recommendations for a high-level roadmap and next steps

Membership (£5K/month for 2022. Reviewed annually.)

Outcomes: 

• An Open Energy ecosystem that enables data discovery and use across the sector
• Commercial data & open data visible to, and usable by, the energy data sector
• Leadership, alignment with, and delivery of Net-Zero targets 
• Trusted data governance

Membership benefits:

• Codevelopment of Open Standards for data and interoperability (e.g. APIs)
• Direct input into the Open Energy service solutions and their development
• Participation in OE Advisory Group(s) for ongoing input into strategic development and development programmes
• Joint development of business relevant use cases, practical case studies and business models that require collaboration across the value chain
• Participation with the Open Energy solutions as a data provider and/or data consumer using search and the IB1 Trust Framework.
• Development of guidelines and best practises to meet regulatory requirements (e.g. Ofgem, RIIO-ED2)
• Joint communications, co-branding at key events (e.g. London Climate Action Week, COP)
• Showcase of exemplar case studies

In-kind commitments

This is a collaborative process. Organisations should commit senior strategic and domain experts equivalent to a minimum of £30K contribution in-kind to ensure that they gain maximum value from the programme.

Timings

Icebreaking will begin at a mutually agreed time after contracting and run over a period of eight weeks. 

Membership development programmes are planned on a quarterly basis. Each programme begins with a review, scoping and planning exercise to determine metrics for success and a development roadmap.

About Icebreaker One

Icebreaker One is a UK-based independent, non-partisan, global non-profit that aims to connect private and public sector leaders to help reduce risk and grasp the opportunity to transform the climate crisis into economic innovation. Its mission is to make data work harder to deliver net-zero, working across agriculture, energy, transport, water and the built world. Its initiatives include Open Energy, the Standard for Environment, Risk and Insurance (SERI) and Project Cygnus.