Print Email Facebook Twitter Barriers in open energy data: An exploratory study into open energy data barriers and their mitigation strategies Title Barriers in open energy data: An exploratory study into open energy data barriers and their mitigation strategies Author Visser, J.V.G. Contributor Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (mentor) Ubacht, J. (mentor) De Jong, W.M. (mentor) Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.M.G. (mentor) Wenzler, I. (mentor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Engineering and Policy Analysis Date 2015-01-26 Abstract As the open data movement is growing, more and more data becomes available for developers to be re-used. New applications based on these data are rapidly being developed and can help to solve societal problems. One of these new applications to solve societal problems, is to use energy data to quantitatively help decision makers in the urban energy planning. As a result lowering the carbon emissions of cities. One of these developments is implemented in the EU TRANFORM project, where they develop an energy decision support tool (DST) based on actual city data. However in the energy domain the available open data is limited and highly valued datasets, such as fine grained consumption data and building information, are often unavailable as open data. Therefore this research focussed on the barriers that energy data owners experience to release their fine grained energy data. Based on these barriers recommendations were formulated to the European Union on how to improve the number of available datasets. To investigate these barriers, three actor groups in the TRANSFORM project have been examined, using six cities as case studies. In total six European Distribution System Operators (DSO) and five European municipalities were interviewed for this research, as they were identified as owners of highly desired data. Furthermore, two knowledge providers were asked to share their experiences regarding re-using open energy data. The respondents were asked to share their barriers to release their energy data as open data. From the respondents it became clear that many feared privacy issues, but also the costs proved to be a major hampering factor. Further we found that the competitive market also prevented many actors from sharing data. Between the cases we found that in Amsterdam the DSO as well as the municipality have a positive attitude towards sharing data. For Copenhagen, Lyon and Genoa this was not the case and we found a misalignment in their vision, and the DSO was unwilling to share energy data as open data. Based on these findings five mitigation strategies were made for the European Commission. From a small analysis two policies were chosen as most effective. First, we recommend to create guidelines to energy data owners on what they can release. Second, we advise to create a knowledge sharing platform where data owners can learn from others how they can release data. Subject open energy dataopen databarriersenergy datarecommendations open energy dataquantitative decision support tool To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e5116152-c133-4f67-b7d8-5223c66c9f68 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2015 Visser, J.V.G. Files PDF 12-01-2015_Thesis_Jochem_ ... y_data.pdf 2.23 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e5116152-c133-4f67-b7d8-5223c66c9f68/datastream/OBJ/view