Green Button use continues to expand
Use of the Green Button, which grants utility customers easy access to their electricity usage data, is continuing to grow. Launched by the Energy Department in September of…
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GSA announces Green Button initiative at White House Energy Datapalooza
Since the first White House Energy Datapalooza in October 2012, Boston’s FirstFuel Software — a privately owned company — has used open data to analyze the energy…
DOE holds open data Google+ Hangout
The Department of Energy hosted a Google+ Hangout Thursday on open government data and its role in fostering entrepreneurial opportunity. The discussion was related to the agency’s…
Exclusive: VA CTO Levin to step down
Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin will resign effective March 1, he told FedScoop in…
NIST releases Green Button developer user guide
Green Button (Source: Newman, Talbott/NIST) A Green Button software developer kit user guide is now available courtesy of the National Institue of Standards and Technology. The guide…
Energy Launches $100K App Challenge
The Department of Energy has launched the Apps for Energy competition, challenging developers to use the Green Button data access problem to help bring residential and commercial…
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Energy Launches $100K App Challenge
The Department of Energy has launched the Apps for Energy competition, challenging developers to use the Green Button data access problem to help bring residential and commercial…
Government’s Easy Button: VA CTO Levin Leads the New Data Movement
The federal government has entered a new era: The Data Button Movement. It was about two years ago that Peter Levin, the chief technology officer at the…
On Chopra: ‘He is a life force if there ever was one’
Last Tuesday, the day before announcing the Green Button initiative in California, Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra was at the offices of San Francisco-based start-up Twilio.…
Chopra, Energy Launch Green Button Open Data Initiative
Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announced the launch of the Green Button initiative Wednesday, a new feature for energy company websites that will let consumers download…