Energy Data Access: A Guide to Leveraging Differential Privacy 

The Energy Data Access: Guide to Leveraging Differential Privacy provides a practical application for using differential privacy in various risk-based data access frameworks and demystifies this important tool in the context of current energy data access regulations and policies. The guide provides historical context, a structure for assessing risk in use-case development, and tools to orient decision-makers and practitioners to the opportunities for expanding data access frameworks to include differential privacy techniques. The user guide is intended to help stakeholders, and decision-makers inform the development of frameworks appropriate to a jurisdiction's specific policy goals and objectives and provide tools to properly balance and communicate the trade-offs of privacy and usability of datasets.

Prepared by: 
Carmen Best & Mariano Teehan, in collaboration with Technical Advisory Group

Prepared for: 
Janghyun Kim, National Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Energy ​

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Acknowledgments
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This work would not have been possible without the contributions of the voluntary Technical Advisory Group. Members contributed their time to discuss the issues covered in this guide to develop this final product.  We thank them for their input and note that while the report reflects the views of the experts convened, it does not imply their endorsement of all of the content.

This material is based on work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Building Technologies Office under NREL Subcontract No. SUB-2021-10433. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of NREL, the DOE, or the U.S. Government.

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