OpenADE™ Task Force

Technical Committee: Open Automated Data Exchange

The Open Automated Data Exchange (OpenADE™) Task Force is the open-to-anyone technical committee of the Green Button Alliance.

The OpenADE Task Force includes participants from smart-energy-management vendors, utilities, and government interests who discuss and develop recommendations for building interoperable data exchanges that allow customer authorization and sharing of utility consumption information with Third-Party service providers.

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Latest Discussions & Minutes

The North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) Retail Market Quadrant (RMQ) ratification period for the recommendation to support Standards Request R25005, as recommended by the RMQ Executive Committee for approval on March 5, 2026, ended on April 6, 2026.

We are pleased to announce that the recommendation to remove SFTP transfers of data from the Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI) has passed.  REST transfers of data remain unchanged.

The Agenda for each meeting, and the Minutes for previous meetings, can be found here on the GitHub repository for the Green Button Alliance:

Meeting Info on GitHub

Meeting Agenda on GitHub

OpenADE Task Force Revised Charter

OpenADE shall promote interoperability for the Green Button Data-Access and Data-Sharing technologies:

• Based on NAESB REQ.21 Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI).
• Collect and refine changes and extensions to ESPI and related standards.
• Enhance and manage Green Button conformance for:
  • Green Button Download My Data (DMD)
  • Green Button Connect My Data (CMD)
• Develop and manage the Green Button Certification Testing & Compliance program:
  • Develop and manage test plans and conformance rules.
  • Provide test harnesses and a Certification program to ensure implementation compliance to the standard.