DataGuard Energy Data Privacy Program
Channel: Green Button Alliance
Date: 2018-08-09

Customer privacy and the safe handling of personal data are top of mind with your customers.  Learn about the U.S. Department of Energy's DataGuard Energy Data Privacy Program, which offers a framework for assuring utility-customer privacy and the responsible handling of customers' personal, energy-usage data.
  
The U.S. DOE, new DataGuard Partnership Program members: the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative and the Green Button Alliance, and early DataGuard adopter: UtilityAPI, look forward to sharing the DataGuard program principles and how DataGuard can benefit data-sharing companies and their customers.  You'll hear from GBA members and staff: 
  
+  Nathan Shannon of the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative, 
+  Eric Lightner of the United States Department of Energy, 
+  Daniel Roesler of UtilityAPI, and 
+  Jeremy J. Roberts of the Green Button Alliance.

00:00 Introduction to DataGuard
01:58 Real-time Energy Usage Information
06:00 Why DataGuard?
11:19 Voluntary Code of Conduct (VCC)
15:01 Customer Notice & Awareness
22:01 UtilityAPI Data Access Infrastructure
24:36 How Customers Use UtilityAPI
26:28 DataGuard Adoption Overview
30:53 Authorization Form
33:07 Authorization Receipt
44:11 Green Button "Download My Data"
45:23 Green Button Standard: Key Benefits
48:01 Meeting DataGuard with Green Button Technology