The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation gets the open web and open foundations. And they are doing it right. We – as a private sector public – are falling down on this one.
PEMC is posting tons of data to the web regarding the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM). You can go to this page
and click through to bunches and bunches of market data regarding bids and offers and clearing prices and marginal generator units. It’s somewhat obscure to the uninformed. It’s in generally raw form. Very simplified. But it’s text format which means it’s open.
It is up to us, the public, and some enterprising individual or company to swoop in, write the code to access this data, massage it, and present it back in an easy-to-consume format. It’s a business opportunity waiting to happen!
It’s not PEMC’s obligation to do that. They are doing the right thing. We – as a public – have to get our act together and ride this EPIRA horse the way it was meant to be rode.
Any coders out there want to collaborate?