We’ve recently completed two new significant additions to opentaps: Green Button XML and OpenEEMeter. Green Button XML allows you to upload utility billing data, such as interval usage data from smart meters, into opentaps. OpenEEMeter is an open source project that can then help you perform Measurement & Verification (M&V) of your energy efficiency projects […]
The start of a new year (decade?) is a good time for reflecting, so I wrote a post for the Meeting of the Mind about how we could bridge the clean energy gap. While many clean energy technologies are becoming mature and could be adopted profitably, our overall progress towards clean energy is still achingly […]
If you’re working with energy efficiency, you’ve probably long realized how important tagging your data is. We’ve certainly seen that in our recent project for a major municipality’s building portfolio. To help them tag all the data coming out of their buildings, we’ve built features for creating and maintaing tagging rules. Now you can use […]
Last week I made a presentation for VOLTTRON Days, the VOLTTRON users’ conference. It shows where we are with opentaps and answers the question I get asked most often: How do you make money with open source? Here’s the video:
A few years ago, we reached an inflection point with opentaps. We would look back and feel a sense of pride in what we’ve built — a feature-rich, commercial-grade ERP and CRM system that was used by companies big and small around the world. But when we looked ahead, there was also a strong feeling […]