Resolve, Regarding Monitoring of and Reporting on Energy Use Data Standards and Online Energy Data Platforms
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 2017
Committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology

Legislative Document
No. 2017
H.P. 1499
House of Representatives, March 9, 2022
Resolve, Regarding Monitoring of and Reporting on Energy Use 
Data Standards and Online Energy Data Platforms
Reported by Representative BERRY of Bowdoinham for the Joint Standing Committee on 
Energy, Utilities and Technology pursuant to Resolve 2021, chapter 63, section 2.
Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered 
printed pursuant to Joint Rule 218.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Sec. 1.  Governor's Energy Office; monitor and report. Resolved: That the 
Governor's Energy Office shall monitor efforts undertaken in other states to improve 
energy use data standards and to implement multiple-use online energy data platforms that 
will provide natural gas and electric utility customers with access to information about their 
energy usage and will allow for the aggregation of and removal of personally identifiable 
information from community-level energy data. The office shall submit a report, on or 
before November 2, 2022, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over utilities and energy matters including information regarding other states' 
efforts and recommendations for how similar efforts could be undertaken in the State. The 
committee may report out related legislation to the 131st Legislature in 2023.
Sec. 2.  Public Utilities Commission; commission evaluation of statewide, 
multiple-use online energy data platform. Resolved: That the Public Utilities 
Commission shall issue a request to transmission and distribution utilities in the State for 
the following information:  
1.  Whether the utility has the present ability to map specific meters to specific 
buildings and, if the utility does not have the ability, a description of the process necessary 
to achieve this ability, including the costs to the utility's ratepayers; and
2.  Whether the utility has the present ability to export energy data in the Green Button 
Alliance format and support the Green Button Connect My Data standard and the energy 
services provider interface of the North American Energy Standards Board, and, if the 
utility does not have the present ability to export energy data in the Green Button Alliance 
format and support the Green Button Connect My Data standard and the energy services 
provider interface of the North American Energy Standards Board, a description of the 
process necessary to achieve this ability, including the costs to the utility's ratepayers.
Sec. 3.  Report. Resolved: That, by November 2, 2022, the Public Utilities 
Commission shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over utilities and energy matters that includes the information gathered under 
section 2. The committee may report out related legislation to the 131st Legislature in 2023.
SUMMARY
This resolve directs the Governor's Energy Office to monitor efforts undertaken in 
other states to improve energy use data standards and to implement multiple-use online 
energy data platforms. On or before November 2, 2022, the office must submit information 
regarding other states' efforts and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the 
Legislature having jurisdiction over utilities and energy matters. The committee may report 
out related legislation to the 131st Legislature in 2023. The resolve also requires the Public 
Utilities Commission to issue a request for information to transmission and distribution 
utilities in the State and to report the results of the request to the committee. The committee 
may report out related legislation to the 131st Legislature in 2023.