Drive the energy transition by unlocking value from your data assets
Data marketplaces: A driver for transformation in the Energy & Utilities sector
The energy and utilities sector manages large-scale networks and infrastructures that generate enormous, growing volumes of business, network and sensor data, every second of every day. Sharing this data across the organization with all employees and externally is vital for multiple reasons. It enables utilities to digitize, increase operational efficiency and improve decision-making to meet the challenges of the energy transition and decarbonization. Data sharing with partners and customers accelerates collaboration and innovation across ecosystems, generating new services and ensuring competitiveness. Sharing builds trust with consumers and regulators, delivering transparency and efficiently complying with open data legislation through seamless communication with all stakeholders.
The benefits of [ data marketplaces ]
Improve efficiency and decision-making
by sharing the right data, in the right format and at the right time, across your organization and beyond
Meet changing regulatory requirements
and increase transparency by opening and sharing your data, making it available to audiences in understandable ways, ensuring compliance best practice
Save time and decrease costs
through seamless, rapid data sharing that reduces time to insight and lowers expenditure for your employees and partners
Enhance ecosystem collaboration
by sharing your data with existing and new partners, including local authorities, developers and researchers in accessible, understandable ways
Drive decarbonization and underpin the energy transition
through data-driven innovation, delivered via internal collaboration and by sharing across your ecosystems, including with startups and researchers
Improve customer-centricity through new services
built on innovative uses of data to meet changing customer needs, strengthening trust and increasing loyalty and engagement
Realize all your [ use cases ] with a data marketplace
Internal data marketplace
Bring together all your organization’s data assets through your internal data marketplace and make it discoverable and available to all employees, enabling them to use it seamlessly during their daily working lives, without requiring technical support or training.
- Create interactive dashboards and maps to centralize all your IoT sensor data, delivering a clear vision of your assets to improve maintenance and minimize risk
- Centralize your customer data and queries to process them more efficiently, develop attractive services, and improve the customer experience
- Develop data-driven services tailored to your employees’ roles to enable them to work more efficiently
Ecosystem data marketplace
Strengthen and accelerate collaboration through your ecosystem data marketplace, making information available to all stakeholders in ways tailored to their specific needs. Work together to achieve net zero with new and traditional partners, providing a forum for communication, collaboration and innovation.
- Create secure spaces to share your and your partners’ data and build collaborative plans to achieve your shared net zero goals
- Provide your data securely to local authorities and organizations to better manage infrastructure and services
- Make your data available through APIs to power partner applications and services
Public data marketplace
Boost transparency and engage all of your stakeholders through your comprehensive, accessible open data marketplace. Go beyond regulatory compliance requirements by providing in-depth, understandable information that explains your strategy, monitors ongoing performance, and builds a community:
- Create interactive dashboards and visualizations to keep the public informed about the status of your infrastructure and any planned or unplanned outages
- Communicate your targets and transformation plans for achieving Net Zero, better engaging stakeholders
- Enhance services for customers by integrating real-time data and interactive forms to encourage greater communication
UK Power Networks supports energy transition through innovative data marketplace
UK Power Networks' data marketplace is transforming energy distribution by improving resilience, fostering innovation, and supporting the move towards Net Zero.
Yiu-Shing Pang
Open Data Manager
users
implementation time
UK Power Networks accelerates [ collaboration ] through data sharing
Our solution
- Increases the accessibility and interoperability of UKPN’s data through tailored visualizations, dashboards and data stories, built on user needs
- Encourages reuse through built-in APIs for every dataset, accelerating the design and deployment of new uses
- Makes it simple to find data through powerful search and filter functionality
The benefits
- Engages stakeholders and empowers them with the required information and use cases to plan and drive decarbonization efforts
- Optimizes current network operations, increasing efficiency while meeting changing energy needs
- Underpins a vibrant ecosystem that works together to achieve net zero
"Successfully moving to a Net Zero world heavily depends on open data – ours and that of our ecosystem partners. It has to be interoperable, readily consumable and drive near real-time insight. Through our marketplace we therefore wanted to break down barriers and build a community of stakeholders around our data."
The [ key capabilities ] of a data marketplace
Huwise’s data marketplace solution enables data leaders and organizations from the energy and utilities sector to quickly create a one-stop shop for the rapid discovery and use of their data assets at scale, internally and externally.
Seamlessly connect to all your internal and external data sources
through over 80 connectors for easy integration with your data tools and business applications.
Ensure data quality
control through more than 50 processors that automate common tasks such as formatting fields, correcting errors and standardizing formats.
Enable data preparation and enrichment
through Huwise’s Data hub, providing free access to over 30,000 public datasets, available to combine with your own datasets.
Create compelling data visualizations and interactive dashboards
in just a few clicks through our no-code studio or via our advanced mode for more complex visualizations.
Securely share data assets
through a range of download and reuse options including APIs, allowing users to easily create their own uses from your data.
Better understand how your data is being used
internally and externally, across your ecosystems through in-built data lineage capabilities, while improving data marketplace management efficiency.
Ebook: Driving [ utility sector transformation ] with new data experiences
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FAQ
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Energy and utility companies handle massive volumes of data from many different sources: networks, IoT sensors, customers, consumption, and more. This information is often siloed across departments.
A data product marketplace centralizes this data, structures it, and makes it seamlessly accessible, both internally and externally. It helps to:
- Improve operational efficiency by giving teams fast access to relevant information.
- Strengthen collaboration internally and with partners, local authorities, and regulators through interoperable, shared data.
- Support the energy transition by driving innovation to optimize services and infrastructure management.
A data product marketplace is a strategic lever for meeting regulatory requirements, transparency expectations, and carbon neutrality goals.
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Organizations in the energy sector can build several use cases on a data marketplace:
- Internal data product marketplace
- Centralizes data assets (IoT, customer, and network data)
- Lets teams use data without relying on technical support
- Makes it easy to create dashboards and interactive maps
- Helps monitor networks in real time, anticipate risks, and improve customer service
- Ecosystem data product marketplace
- A collaboration tool for partners (local authorities, developers, researchers, subcontractors)
- Provides a secure space for data sharing
- Makes it possible to co-build plans toward goals such as carbon neutrality
- Gives access to data via APIs to power partner applications
- Public data product marketplace
- Goes beyond regulatory data publication requirements
- Offers interactive dashboards and observatories to the general public
- Informs about the state of infrastructure, outages, and upcoming changes
- Strengthens transparency, consumer trust, and the relationship with the regulator
- Internal data product marketplace
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A data product marketplace built for the energy and utilities sectors must handle high data volumes, a wide variety of sources, and strict regulatory constraints. It relies on several key capabilities:
- Multi-source connectivity: seamless integration of heterogeneous data (SCADA, IoT, ERP, business applications) through ready-to-use connectors, with no custom development.
- Automated data quality: automated formatting, correction, and harmonization to deliver reliable, ready-to-use data.
- Enrichment through a Data Hub: the ability to enrich internal data with public datasets to add context and improve analysis.
- Custom data product creation: easy creation of dashboards, maps, and interactive observatories, enabling fast adoption by business teams with no technical skills required.
- Secure sharing: data distribution via APIs, exports, or downloads, with granular access rights management to control usage.
- Data lineage tracking: full traceability of data flows and usage, internally and with partners, which is essential for governance and compliance.
These capabilities turn complex data into accessible, reliable data products that create value at scale.
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