Tech Brief | GBA Offers New Expert Resources for Developers

GBA Offers New Expert Resources for Developers

For Utility and Third Party app developers, the GBA has new Developer Resources available including a Usage Point for Aggregated Data page and a Utility-Bill Data Mapping page.

The North American Energy Standards Board’s (NAESB) REQ.21 ESPI, the standard commonly known as Green Button, is the international energy and water data-access and -sharing standard.  From it's inception, the standard has supported Aggregated Data Sharing.  To assist developers with standards-based Aggregated Data Sharing, the new Usage Point for Aggregated Data page provides a step-by-step overview, with XML examples, of two key XML elements in the ESPI schema’s Usage Point type.

The new Utility-Bill Data Mapping page provides a step-by-step guide on how to map a Utility Bill to the Green Button Usage Summary XML format of the ESPI Usage/File Stream in order to summarize energy usage, in a standardized format, for a billing period.