Green Button Alliance

The Green Button Alliance advances the Industry's Green Button Energy Data Access and Secure Data Sharing Standard. The Green Button standard securely unlocks and standardizes utility data to empower utilities, utility customers and authorized third-party entities with digital access to energy, natural gas, and water usage information in a standardized format - and enables utility customers to securely share their own data with companies of their choice. The Green Button effort was created with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), the Utility Communications Architecture International Users Group (UCAIug), and the White House. The North American Energy Standards Board's Energy Services Provider Interface (NAESB ESPI standard) serves as the basis for Green Button technology by providing a model for business practices, use cases, and an XML schema for the standard. The Green Button Alliance (GBA) is a 501(c)(3) corporation created in 2015 to foster the development, compliance, and widespread adoption of the Green Button standard. It is the go-to-place for all things related to the Green Button initiative—from certification of implementations to marketing and education.