URPX and the GBA

The Green Button Alliance works with several organizations to help build complementary solutions to the Green Button ecosystem of benefits.

The Linux Foundation Energy’s Utility Rate Plan Exchange (LFE’s URPX) is one-such standardization project that complements utility-usage data of Green Button platforms with rate and tariff information of implementations of the structures set-forth in URPX.

About URPX¹

The project addresses a critical gap in energy data infrastructure: while standards exist for customer usage data (Green Button NAESB REQ.21 Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI)) and grid operations (Common Information Model (CIM)), no comprehensive standard exists for the rate plan data that determines how customers are charged for energy, water, and other utilities. The Utility Rate Plan Exchange standard, URPX, addresses this foundational gap.

Initiated by Flux Tailor with collaboration from the National Laboratory of the Rockies, URPX builds on semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, SHACL) to create a rich, interoperable format for representing everything from simple flat-rate plans to complex ratchet and time-of-use structures and highly dynamic pricing. The standard scope includes a specification for API data exchange.

From flat prices to complex ratchets, time of use structures, and highly dynamic pricing models, URPX provides the shared language required to compute costs accurately and consistently.

To learn more, visit https://urpx.org/ or to learn more about LFE, visit https://lfenergy.org/

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