The Open Sustainability Policy Summit

Grid Status is an energy data and analytics platform that began as an open source project to build transparent and maintainable workflows for centralizing public energy market data in the US. In the past year it has expanded to include a hosted API and paid analytical tools, but the “build in public” and open source scrapers remain core to our vision.

As we move up the curve of the energy transition, every type of participant, be they policymakers, new climate tech startups, or power plant developers, will need an accessible, standardized, and reliable source of energy data and knowledge. Anyone can fork or contribute to our open source scrapers, or make a free account and pull data via the hosted API. By building in public, we hope to enable the pursuit of ideas which would otherwise be hamstrung by the cost and time required to build these tools or acquire the data from traditional vendors.

This talk will cover the evolution of Grid Status, the vision for its place in the energy ecosystem, and the necessity to integrate energy domain expertise with modern data engineering to untangle the complicated landscape of public energy data.