Green Button Extensibility Assessment

In September 2011, the federal government announced a “call to action” to create a mechanism to enable utility consumers to download their energy usage history from their utilities’ secure websites in a standardized electronic format. That effort was christened the Green Button initiative, drawing on the success of the Blue Button initiative delivered by the US Department of Defense in 2009 as a secure, online access mechanism to download patient health information through the TriCare online portal.. Authors: Coe, Scott [GridOptimize LLC, Danbury, CT (United States)]; Chinthavali, Supriya [Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)] (ORCID:0000000246111086); Tansakul, Varisara [Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)] (ORCID:0000000242853859). DOE Contract: AC05-00OR22725. Subjects: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING