Green Button for Utility Integration

[stin7]

From http://green-button.github.io/developers/ :

The Green Button API provides flexible access to Energy Usage Information through a set of RESTful interfaces.

Utilities listed on http://www.greenbuttondata.org/ include:

• PG&E
• SoCal Edison
• Con Edison

[martincollignon]

Thank you very much @stin7 ! Any chance you can take a stab at it?

[PierreMesure]

Exactly my thought! As soon as I heard about this project, I thought about the Green Button! It's both a standard that's already widely used in the US and one that can be suggested to energy providers when we are lobbying them to provide an access to their data.

I am not using a provider that has implemented the green button but I would be interested in helping to do this integration. If you are using a provider which has the green button (here is a list of the US providers), feel free to join the effort!

Other relevant links would be:

• Green Button Alliance
• their documentation to the ESPI standard and API (including a sandbox which doesn't seem to work anymore but is worth checking out)

[steren]

@PierreMesure have you started any work for a green Button integration?

Do you know of any JS sample that would show how to get data?

[PierreMesure]

Hey! No, I haven't started and won’t have time in the coming months. Feel free to try!

I can’t find any code example in JavaScript but there are in Java. It’s just a REST API so it should be pretty easy.

[corradio]

@martincollignon if I remember well we need to pay to get access to the API?

[tyleralves]

I would like to research and implement this if no one is actively working on it.

@steren Let me know if you are already on it. Cheers!

[steren]

Go ahead. I have no made any progress.

[tyleralves]

Moving forward on this with SCE and SDG&E.

PG&E throws a wrench in the integration for us because they require mutual TLS, so I'm delaying on that for now. Read more: https://github.com/tmrowco/northapp-contrib/issues/61#issuecomment-622062430