Powerful Platform Enables Data-Driven Decision Making
Opendatasoft, the leading data marketplace solution provider, announced that Northern Powergrid is using its technology to power its self-service energy data marketplace. The data marketplace delivers vital data to a range of different stakeholders, driving closer collaboration and better-informed decision making.
Containing over 2 million records, the data marketplace provides key information to stakeholders including local authorities, generators, EV charging infrastructure companies, flexibility service providers and academics. Users have made over 4.45 million API calls to the portal’s 84 datasets in the first two and a half years it has been live.
Organised under key themes, it provides a range of interactive features for users to help them self-serve and easily access the data they need. These include specific user pages for different audiences, providing tailored access to relevant data, tools and information.
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As Northern Powergrid demonstrates, by focusing on the user experience it is able to engage all stakeholders, democratising data use and increasing accessibility, value, and collaboration.”
— Franck Carassus, CSO and co-founder of Opendatasoft
Northern Powergrid’s portal is the first to feature an interactive dashboard designed specifically for local authorities. The dashboard brings together all the data they need in one place, making it quicker and easier to access key information without switching between multiple datasets.
The electricity network operator chose to work with Opendatasoft because of its strong energy market experience gained working with utilities in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia and its powerful technology, which includes the ability to customise and tailor the user experience.
“We continue to recognise the critical role data plays in supporting our stakeholders and enabling the energy system transition. By placing stakeholder experience at the heart of our approach, we’ve made meaningful strides in improving the accessibility and usability of our open data portal,” said Paul Fitton, Director of Digital and Innovation, Northern Powergrid. “Our focus on stakeholders has helped drive increased engagement, fostered greater use of our data products, and supported innovation across our regions. Through this, we’re contributing to the development of a smarter, more decarbonised energy system—one that reflects the needs of the communities we serve.”
“Decarbonisation requires greater collaboration across a much wider group of stakeholders than before,” said Franck Carassus, CSO and co-founder of Opendatasoft. “Simply sharing data is the first step – it has to be easily accessible in the right format to drive consumption. As Northern Powergrid demonstrates, by focusing on the user experience it is able to engage all stakeholders, democratising data use and increasing accessibility, value, and collaboration.”
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