ComEd Customers Get Green Light to Share Their Energy Data
May 24 2016 - 12:44PM
Business Wire
Green Button Connect feature gives customers
full control over sharing their energy use information with third
parties
Beginning today, ComEd customers with smart meters will have the
ability to authorize and share their energy usage data with
registered third party companies who can help them pinpoint ways
they can reduce energy consumption and save money.
ComEd is among the first utilities to roll-out Green Button
Download My Data, which allows customers to download their own
energy consumption data directly to their computer, and now it will
be one of the first utilities in the Midwest to offer Green Button
Connect My Data. The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), which
governs all Illinois utilities, recently approved a filing by ComEd
for the Green Button Connect and now at the touch of a button,
utility customers can automate the secure transfer of their energy
usage data to authorized third parties. This type of access to
information also gives ComEd customers the ability to use a wide
variety of software and smartphone applications to control and
manage their personal energy consumption.
“We are pleased to offer our customers the latest in data
analytic technology bringing more opportunities for them to
leverage their smart meters and manage daily electric usage,” said
Val Jensen, senior vice president of customer operations for ComEd.
“When the smart grid law was approved by the IL General Assembly in
2011, we made promises to improve the service we provide. Today,
ComEd customers are enjoying record power reliability and they have
greater insight and control over their own energy usage through
smart meter-enabled programs like Green Button Connect. We are
proud to deliver on yet another smart grid promise and look forward
to continuing to deliver even more value to our customers in the
future.”
The Citizens Utility Board Director, David Kolata supported the
launch of this program and stated, "This is about empowering
Illinois consumers to obtain the intelligence they need to maximize
the benefits of the smart grid. Green Button Connect will help
catapult Illinois to the national forefront of providing valuable
data on electricity usage directly to consumers, and we’re hopeful
this sparks entrepreneurs to develop services and apps that help
lower our energy bills. This is good news for consumers and the
green economy.”
Another supporter of Green Button Connect is the Environmental
Defense Fund. “People want and deserve greater control over their
energy use and electric bills,” said Andrew Barbeau, Senior Clean
Energy Consultant for Environmental Defense Fund. “By embracing
Green Button Connect and providing easy access to energy-use data,
ComEd is handing its customers the keys to energy savings.
Moreover, people maintain the freedom to choose whether to share
their information with third party companies, which empowers
customers to save money and cut pollution without sacrificing their
privacy or security.”
The Green Button is a utility industry-led effort in response to
a call to action from the White House to give utility customers
access to information about their energy consumption in an easy,
downloadable format.
“As we continue to install smart meters across ComEd’s our
service territory, more and more of our customers – and eventually
all – will have the ability to unlock even more value through data
analytics,” said Jensen.
More information on the Green Button initiative is available at
www.greenbuttondata.org.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s leading competitive
energy provider, with approximately 10 million customers. ComEd
provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across
northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population. For
more information visit ComEd.com, and connect with the company on
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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