Decision on updates to Data Best Practice Guidance and Digitalisation Strategy and Action Plan Guidance
Decision
Publication date
Industry sector
- Supply and Retail Market
- Distribution Network
- Generation and Wholesale Market
- Offshore Transmission Network
- Transmission Network
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Earlier this year we consulted on the Data Best Practice Guidance “DBP Guidance” and Digitalisation Strategy and Action Plan Guidance “DSAP Guidance”. Today we publish the decision on the amended DBP Guidance and DSAP Guidance.
This decision will make it easier for energy sector participants, organisations with interest in the energy sector, and incoming innovators to access and utilise network data to bring market solutions that will optimise the system for the consumer.
Ofgem’s Data Best Practice Guidance is intended to create interoperability in data across the energy sector, with the aim of maximising the value of the data to enable the decentralisation and decarbonisation of the energy system to meet the UKG’s legal obligation to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The principles of Data Best Practice are evolving to meet the needs of a decentralised energy system. To balance the exponential increase in EVs, Heat Pumps, small-scale distributed generation, and other system changes on the road to Net Zero, the energy network must have better visibility of all assets on the network, to both optimise and co-ordinate the required building of latency to balance these new demands and generation, and to ensure this takes place at a fair cost to consumers.