PSC Sets Process For Workgroup To Develop Green Button Connect-Compliant Data Exchange Platform

The Maryland PSC formally established a new Data Exchange Work Group (“DEWG”) for the implementation of a state-wide Green Button Connect (“GBC”) compliant data exchange platform.

"This GBC-compliant data exchange platform will be used to support third-party access to a customer’s data, with the customer’s permission, for customer choice and virtual power plant aggregations among other potential future use cases. The Commission also directed the DEWG to scope the potential integration of a central, public-facing distributed energy resource registry ('DER Registry') with this GBC-compliant data exchange platform," the PSC said

The PSC had ordered creation of such a work group in a recent order designed to accelerate the implementation of virtual power plants (VPPs), see prior story here

The PSC opened Public Conference 79 (PC 79, PC79) as the proceeding under which it will conduct the DEWG-assigned activities

The DEWG shall file by November 8, 2026 its initial reports previously ordered by the PSC