From Open-Source Toolkit to Enterprise Product: Energy Web’s Digital Spine Now Available for Public Use
With the release of an updated Client Gateway on Microsoft Azure Marketplace and the launch of a production-grade message broker, companies can now access the Digital Spine toolkit for DER and e-mobility use cases via a software as a service model.
Zug, 20 July 2023 — Energy Web, an independent non-profit developing digital solutions for the energy sector, is thrilled to announce the public release of its Digital Spine solution. Featuring an upgraded version of the Digital Spine Client Gateway on the Microsoft Azure marketplace as well as a production-grade message broker, the release marks a major milestone in Energy Web’s ongoing efforts to productize its open-source technology stack: for the first time, companies can access an Energy Web solution via an enterprise-friendly software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.
Energy Web’s Digital Spine helps grid operators and electricity market participants integrate and coordinate distributed energy resources by providing a layer of interoperability that connects information between various hardware, software, and organizational systems in near real time.
In contrast to the information technology landscape that utilities rely on today (which features limited information sharing between isolated and fragmented systems) a Digital Spine offers an open-access, cohesive infrastructure that can support a wide variety of DER and e-mobility use cases.
Originally developed in support of Project EDGE in Australia, the Digital Spine was previously made available as an open-source toolkit which required participating organizations to manually configure and deploy multiple components. Now, Energy Web is offering a public message broker that companies can integrate with by installing a Client Gateway through an Azure subscription. Once integrated, companies can leverage three preconfigured data exchange applications or customize their own applications tailored to specific business needs.
Existing Energy Web Member organizations will receive free access to the Energy Web hosted messaging infrastructure as an ongoing benefit of membership and can get started by following the user guide here. Companies who are not currently members can inquire about Digital Spine access and/or membership here.
“In order to decarbonize, the grid needs to grow a digital spine,” said Jesse Morris, CEO of Energy Web. “With this release, electric utilities and DER aggregators can quickly and easily get first-hand experience with a Digital Spine and accelerate their digital transformation journey.”
To learn more, visit the Energy Web’s Digital Spine Client Gateway on the Microsoft Azure marketplace.
About Energy Web
Energy Web is a global non-profit accelerating the clean energy transition by developing open-source technology solutions for energy systems. Our enterprise-grade solutions improve coordination across complex energy markets, unlocking the full potential of clean, distributed energy resources for businesses, grid operators, and customers. Our solutions for enterprise asset management, data exchange, and Green Proofs, our tool for registering and tracking low-carbon products, are underpinned by the Energy Web Chain, the world’s first public blockchain tailored to the energy sector. The Energy Web ecosystem comprises leading utilities, renewable energy developers, grid operators, corporate energy buyers, automotive, IoT, telecommunications leaders, and more. More information on Energy Web can be found at www.energyweb.org
