video on UK Icebreaker One energy data brokering platform (35:17)
Robbie Morrison
This video from United Kingdom non‑profit Icebreaker One is worth watching. It covers their innovative energy‑sector‑wide data brokering scheme:
- Icebreaker One (12 February 2021). Open Energy presentation for MEDA Phase 2. London, United Kingdom: Icebreaker One. YouTube video 35:17. Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0 license.
I think this is a fantastic project (and for disclosure, I contributed to advisory group 2 on policy, regulation, and legal). But I guess there are two implicit assumptions that will need confronting in due course:
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that data munging alone can provide the kind of answers being sought: in my view, many of the use-cases indicated will need to be processes through proper energy system models to yield the desired insights
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that energy sector data will naturally and tacitly align: again in my view, a lot of hard work ahead on semantics, collection protocols, metadata, and technical standards
I have already contacted Icebreaker to let them know of work
within this community that could contribute to these areas.
Moreover that some specific projects in UK institutions could
assist with the underlying modeling.
Icebreaker was recently awarded phase 3 development by the UK
government with funding of £0.75 million (about €0.9 million)
under the MEDA scheme. The objectives for that phase are covered
in the aforementioned YouTube.
Icebreaker has one‑hour public webinar via Zoom coming up on Tuesday 16 February at 10:00 GMT (11:00 CET), register here.
Also worth noting a similar project aimed at industry — with
enhancements planned like near‑realtime wind farm logging — named
OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe) and launching
on 24 March 2021. That project currently only supports
contractually‑encumbered data and data under mandatory public
domain status, so the "open" tag is somewhat misleading.
stay safe, Robbie
-- Robbie Morrison Address: Schillerstrasse 85, 10627 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49.30.612-87617