​Green Button provides a unified, industry-standard data format, which can be used to analyze and manage a consumer’s energy usage. The introduction of Green Button industry-standard data across Ontario utilities will provide the foundation for the development of new tools and applications for customers to analyze and monitor their energy usage to reduce costs. 

Green Button Data for Residential Customers

• Many customers are already viewing their energy data through a customer portal on their utility website. With Green Button, third party apps can analyze the data and provide insights to help customers make sense of their energy use and make informed decisions to help reduce costs
  
• With CMD, data is shared on an ongoing basis. This allows third parties to provide insights and alerts on usage trends and changes
  

Green Button Data for Businesses

• For customers with a large number of properties across multiple utilities, Green Button provides a standardized format so that the data they receive from each utility is in a similar format. Green Button third parties in the commercial sector are able to analyze large volumes of data across multiple facilities to provide energy management advice
  
• With CMD, data is shared on an ongoing basis. This allows third parties to provide insights and alerts on usage trends and changes including monitoring the impact of energy efficiency measures taken
  
• Green Button will also make it easier for facilities to complete mandatory government reporting requirements

You can download your Green Button data by:

• Accessing your DMD Green Button portalopens in a new tab
  
• Entering your required account information to validate that you are the account owner (Note: You will need to have a recent bill handy)
  
• Selecting the Download My Data tab
  
• Following the prompts to select the data you would like to download
  
• Clicking Download
  
• An XML file containing your selected data will be download
  
• This file can be shared with us uploaded to a Green Button app to view
  

When you download your data, it will be in an industry-standard XML format. Please note that XML files are designed to be read and analyzed by computer applications, not humans.

When you download your data, you may choose to send it to a third-party vendor yourself or upload it to an application to analyze. As Green Button data becomes widely available across Ontario, more third-party solutions and applications will be developed and made available to analyze the data.​

Yes, you can stop sharing your data at any time. To do so, simply go to the Data Shares tab within the Green Button Portal select the vendor you would like to stop sharing your data with, and click Revoke.

When authorizing a third-party vendor to access your data, you will select the type of data you want to share with them and for which account (if you have multiple accounts). You c​an select your Energy Usage Data, Billing Data and/or Account Information to be shared. EPCOR will share the type of data you have selected and authorized for that account.

Usage data
Historical usages up to a maximum of 2 years and/or ongoing meter readings of your meters, which may include hourly interval, demand, net metering and water (if applicable) readings. Energy usage data includes:

• Historical usages up to a maximum of 2 years and/or ongoing meter readings of your meters
• hourly interval data
• Net metering data

Account information
Your name, address(es), meter number(s), contact information and other personally identifiable information stored by EPCOR. Account information includes:

• Customer Name
• Service address
• Mailing address
• Account number
• Meter number
• Customer rate class
• Contact information

Utility bill data
Billing periods and individual charges, adjustments and credit lines items from your utility bill. Billing data includes:

• Billing periods
  
• Energy charges and adjustments

Any active EPCOR customer can use Connect My Data to authorize third-party data sharing.

Sharing your data starts on the third-party vendor's website:

• Go to the authorized third-party vendor's Green Button registration web page
• Complete the third-party vendor data sharing authorization request form
• You will be redirected to EPCOR's Green Button portal to authenticate, verify the data sharing information, review the terms and conditions, and authorize data sharing
  
• EPCOR will then exchange a security token with the authorized third-party vendor which will allow secure, automated data sharing

When authorizing a third-party vendor to access your data, you select the duration and frequency that you would like to share your data for. 

EPCOR Utilities has been certified by the Green Button Alliance. This is the industry standard to ensure compliance with data sharing and security standards.

• ​​Ontario Energy Board – Green Buttonopens in a new tab
  
• Ontario Newsroomopens in a new tab
  
• Green Button Alliance (GBA)opens in a new tab

Customers must initiate Connect My Data (data sharing) through the authorized third party vendor's website. From the third-party vendor website, the customer will be redirected to EPCOR's Green Button portal to authenticate and complete the Connect My Data authorization process.

The customer selects the duration for which the data will be shared with an authorized third-party vendor, along with the frequency that the data will be shared. The customer can revoke access at any time.

Customers are required to make their own authorizations online through one of the authorization methods. The customer must also authenticate with the utility before the security token can be exchanged with the utility and data can be shared.

• Ontario Energy Board – Green Buttonopens in a new tab
  
• Ontario Newsroomopens in a new tab
  
• Green Button Alliance (GBA)opens in a new tab