Add OpenADE Task Force January 8, 2025 Meeting Minutes

Signed-off-by: Donald F. Coffin <[email protected]>

Author: Donald F. Coffin

meetings/2025-01-08_meeting_minutes.md

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+# OpenADE Task Force Meeting 2025-01-08
+
+## Agenda
+* Welcome
+* Introduction of attendees
+* Review and approve minutes
+
+
+* Review current Technical Activities
+  * ESPI support for EPA Portfolio Manager's Green Power (**pending**)
+  * Code Snippets
+    * How to report billing dollar amounts in the UsageSummary costAdditionalDetailLastPeriod LineItem structure
+      (**pending**)
+    * Best Practice settings for access_token and refresh_token expiration (**pending**)
+  * CMD Certification Platform Pending Updates
+    * [FB_26] Usage Summary Billing Details (**pending**)
+    * [FB_71] Retail Customer Billing Statement (**pending**)
+    * [FB_58] Retail Customer ServiceLocation Information Update (**pending**)
+    * [FB_36] Third Party Dynamic Registration Update (**pending**)
+  * What topics should the GBA focus on during 2025?
+    * Carbon Accounting 
+      * Renewable Energy Certificates
+      * Percentage Renewable consumption of Energy
+        * [Dan] Discussed the current Ontario Energy Consumption reporting requirements
+        * [Dan] They use EPA Portfolio Manager to report consumption for Carbon reporting
+        * [Dan] Also referenced the PCP Tool (https://pcptools.org) as another Carbon reporting tool
+        * [Ashish] Reported another Ontario company that is reporting 
+        * [Dan] Indicated that it would be great if the ESPI standard data could be directly imported into the EPA 
+          Portfolio Manager
+        * [Don] Discussed what the GBA has been working on to provide tools to convert the ESPI data to meet the EPA 
+          Portfolio Manager input format 
+        * [Ashish] Commented that it would be helpful if the ESPI standard could include additional Carbon accounting data
+        * [Dan] Indicated that it is challenging to get CMD to work with utilities due to the OAuth Access Token 
+          requirements
+        * [Jeremy] Commented that it can be challenging for individuals to develop a 3rd Party relationship
+        * [Ashish] Asked if Dan was obtaining the data directly from the meter of the utility
+        * [Jeremy] Clarified that Ashish and Dan were discussing two different methods of obtaining the data.
+        * [Don] Commented that the UtilityAPI implementation is front ending the utility and then performing the 3rd 
+          Party interface
+        * [Dan] Discussed how the UtilityAPI interface works 
+        * [Don] Asked Dan to provide him with additional information about the UtilityAPI API he uses
+    * EPA Portfolio Manager compatibility
+
+
+* Open Discussion
+
+## Attendees
+* Donald F. Coffin (Green Button Alliance) (Maintainer)
+* Jeremy J. Roberts (Green Button Alliance)
+* Valdis Hellevik (GBA)
+* Dee Hastey (Big Data Energy Services)
+* Dan Gowans (City of Sault Ste. Marie)
+* Ashish Goel
+
+
+## Minutes
+* TODO
+
+## Closing Discussion
+* Consensus to commit this to repo? Yes/No