Provides a developer-friendly API that enables businesses in Europe to access and integrate smart meter data from aggregation systems. This API streamlines energy management, carbon emissions reporting, and optimization for applications like solar PV, EV charging, and virtual power plants, ensuring GDPR compliance and secure data handling.
Funding
$1.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Accessing smart meter data across Europe is complex due to regulatory hurdles, administrative barriers, and technical challenges, hindering innovation in energy management and decarbonization efforts. Integrating data from various aggregation systems requires navigating different consent mechanisms and ensuring GDPR compliance, adding further complexity for businesses.
Solution
Openvolt provides a developer-friendly API that simplifies access to smart meter data from aggregation systems across Europe. The API streamlines the integration of energy consumption data into applications for energy management, carbon emissions reporting, and optimization of distributed energy resources like solar PV, EV charging, and virtual power plants. Openvolt ensures compliance with regional consent mechanisms and handles secure data transfer, removing the complexity of navigating diverse regulatory landscapes. By providing a unified interface, Openvolt enables businesses to focus on delivering value to their customers through data-driven energy services and sustainable solutions.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes energy service providers, solar PV installers, virtual power plant operators, and EV charging companies seeking to leverage smart meter data for enhanced services and decarbonization initiatives.
Features
- Developer-friendly REST API for accessing smart meter data across Europe
- Compliant consent management, ensuring adherence to regional regulations
- Secure and performant cloud-hosted infrastructure, ISO27001 in process
- Access to half-hourly interval consumption data from commercial and residential electricity meters
- Carbon consumption data (gCO2) provided on a half-hourly basis for UK electricity smart meters, regionalized to the specific DNO
- Support for 5-minute interval data for selected commercial meters
- Multilingual compliant hosted consent flows