Danes embrace energy data for greener and cheaper electricity

Danish energy consumers are increasingly using data to get greener and cheaper electricity consumption, TSO Energinet has reported.

Energinet says that half a million Danes are actively using its ElOverview service to retrieve and share data with companies that help them with energy optimisation and greener electricity consumption.

The number of both users and businesses has increased constantly since the energy crisis, and even though the crisis has largely disappeared from consciousness, the interest that it aroused continues to grow.

Energinet cites figures from its EIOverview service, which gives consumers access to and control over their own electricity data, revealing that in two years the number of proxies that consumers give for data sharing in ElOverblik has increased from 90,000 to almost 500,000.

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The number of companies that can request a power of attorney via ElOverview has doubled from 220 to almost 450.

“We see an increasing interest – and value – in data in the green transition as the electrification of society gains momentum,” says Martin Lervad Lundø, CEO of Energinet’s DataHub, which contains Denmark‘s only national dataset on electricity production and consumption and is used to facilitate the market and from where consumers can access their electricity data via ElOverblik.

“Traditionally, data has been limited to ensure correct settlement between customers and suppliers and between players in the market. But since the energy crisis, we have experienced a very large growth in the demand to gain insight into our own electricity data and use it actively to move one’s electricity consumption or invest in energy initiatives.”

In the light of this Energinet has given ElOverview a major update in 2024 to meet the growing demand for data with improvements in user friendliness, and at the same time make it secure and easy to access and share data.

These include a mobile view and general design and simplification improvements, as well as an easier process for giving and withdrawing proxies.

Energinet says in a statement that the figures support the DataHub’s sense of a societal trend – that data has become a fuel in the green transition and the curve of interest in it continues unabated.