Global scale efforts are required to mitigate the most severe consequences of climate change including a significant increase in energy efficiency of consumers as well as the decarbonization of energy supply. Energy management will play a vital role in future carbon-neutral energy systems, as it unlocks energy efficiency and flexibility potentials by optimally scheduling and controlling devices and systems. However, energy management systems need to be applied at large scales to realize the desired effect, which clearly requires minimization of costs for setup and operation of the individual applications. For this purpose, we promote an approach to split the complex optimization algorithms employed by energy management systems into standardized components, which can be provided as a service with marginal costs at scale.

A significant part of the effort spent on the development of energy management systems is caused by implementing the control logic, i.e. the part that calculates the schedules for the optimized devices and systems. The Open Energy Services community is dedicated to developing and providing standardized forecasting and optimization services for energy management systems, in order to make the development and operation of the latter more cost and time efficient.

To this end Open Energy Services provides:

• Open source repositories of services and corresponding tools.
• Ready to use forecasting and optimization services.
• A community of institutions and individual persons dedicated to the development and operation of services for energy management applications.