The U. S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, on behalf of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability is seeking applications aimed at empowering consumers to better manage their electricity use by enabling access to electricity consumption data by customers and

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their authorized third parties and providing or supporting the use of third party tools and software products that utilize the available data to deliver a value added service to the customer.

Projects under this Funding Opportunity Announcement will be comprised of two Phases.

Under Phase I applicants will need to demonstrate the capability for electricity customers and or designated third parties to access their usage data and the functionality of their proposed tool or software product to provide this access.

Phase II involves adoption of the tools and software products demonstrated in Phase I to an entire service territory, region or community within the jurisdiction of the applicant or the utility partner of the applicant.