Customer Data Working Group (WG1)

This is the homepage of the Customer Data Working Group (WG1), part of the Carbon Data Specification Consortium (CDSC), an LF Energy project.

Scope 🔗

This working group focuses on writing free, open specifications for providing utility customer data access, in order to facilitate carbon emissions calculations and decarbonization efforts.

Use Cases 🔗

We have defined several broad categories of use cases we will focus on addressing, along with what customer data types and functionalities will need to be specified to accommodate those use cases.

• Use Case 1 - Carbon Accounting
• Use Case 2 - Decarbonization Projects
• Use Case 3 - Distributed Grid Flexibility
• Use Case 4 - Building Benchmarking

We’ve also made a list of what data and functionality is specifically not in scope.

Specifications 🔗

These are the official specifications written by this working group.

• CDSC-WG1-01 - Server Metadata [Overview] [Specification] (in progress)
• CDSC-WG1-02 - Client Registration [Overview] [Specification] (in progress)
• CDSC-WG1-03 - Customer Data [Overview] [Specification] (in progress)

If you would like to contribute to these specifications, please see our docs on Contributing and Design Principles.

Contributing 🔗

Want to participate? Great! We’re an open organization, so we welcome any company or individual who wants to provide input.

Things anyone can do (no membership required): 🔗

• Read anything on our repository, website, or mailing list.
• Join and participate in general discussion on the mailing list or Slack channel (#cdsc-customer-data-wg).
• Ask or answer questions on the mailing list or Slack channel (#cdsc-customer-data-wg).
• Attend and participate in meetings on our calendar.
• File or comment on an issue in our repository.
• Comment on pull requests.
• Fork our repository and play around with our code and documentation on your own (we’re open source!).

Things you can do if you become an LFESS member (it’s free!): 🔗

• Contribute comments, suggestions, or other content that will be included in our specifications.
• Open pull requests with proposed changes to our repository or specifications.

NOTE: It’s okay if you’re not yet an LFESS member and comment on something (spec, issue, pull request, mailing list, slack discussion, etc.), and we want your input to be incorporated into our specifications. We’ll just ask you to join LFESS before we can merge your suggestions into the specifications.

License

See our LICENSE.md.

Our specifications operate under the Joint Development Foundation (JDF) project model.

Our code and documentation is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Code of Conduct

Contact for Code of Conduct issues or inquires: operations@lfess.org