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Orange Button: Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Distributed Energy

Hansen, Clifford H.; Rippingale, Jan; Transue, Taos; Court, Philip; Gorman, John

Data processing adds substantial soft costs to distributed energy systems. These costs are incurred primarily as labor necessary to collect, normalize, store and communicate data. The open-source Orange Button data exchange standard comprises data taxonomies, common data sources, and interoperable software tools which together can dramatically reduce these costs and thereby accelerate the deployment of distributed energy systems. We describe the data taxonomies and datasets, and the software enabled by these capabilities.