Thirty Years of Energy Data: Part 2

From electricity consumption data availability and early web dashboards to AI agents and finance-grade energy data, EnerKey’s 30-year journey mirrors the transformation of the energy market itself. In this second part of the story, we explore how regulation, financial reporting and long-term adaptability shape the next chapter. (This is the second part of "Thirty Years of Energy Data" - Read the first part here)

Energy management has moved from monitoring to intelligent automation — but the broader landscape has shifted just as dramatically. Regulation, finance, and the expectations around data quality have become defining forces in how organisations use their energy and sustainability data.

When Energy Data Becomes a Financial Language

CSRD, EU Taxonomy, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive — each step has raised the bar. Consumption data must now be comparable, auditable, and able to withstand scrutiny from CFOs, auditors, banks, and investors.

“The requirements around actual consumption data — the quality, the comparability, the trustability — those have risen to a new level,” Iiro says. Financial reporting has become tightly intertwined with energy performance, and customers need outcomes they can trust.

At the same time, digitalisation and standardisation — national energy data hubs, public APIs, shared data formats — have expanded both the possibilities and the competition. More actors can access more data. The differentiator becomes what you can do with it.

And for EG EnerKey, the answer is clear: customers want reliable outcomes, not just more data.

Adaptability Built on Discipline

Adaptability is often framed as a mindset. In practice, for a long-lived SaaS product like EG EnerKey, it is a discipline. Rebuilding core functionality, redesigning reporting, and continuously updating the technical foundation are part of what keeps the system relevant — even when these changes are invisible from the outside.

Too much innovation risks leaving customers behind; too little risks falling out of sync with the market. Balancing both demands is its own craft.

“We don’t want to outgrow our customers,” Iiro says. “We want to stay close to them and understand their wants and needs all the time. But of course we need to be visionary enough to create future solutions.”

Adaptability, in this sense, is not a slogan. It is endurance — evolving without losing sight of the people using the product.

The Pillars That Define the Future — and the One That Must Stay the Same

Looking ahead, Iiro sees three pillars shaping the next decade of energy management:

• Customer-centric, domain-specific outcomes.

• Trust in data and in the automated outcomes built on it.

• User experience that makes complex technology simpler, not harder.

Each pillar is necessary. But their combined strength — clarity, confidence, and usability — is what defines value. Beneath them sits the one constant that cannot shift: a clear, steady focus on what customers need to get done. Because the crucial question is never who builds the flashiest AI demo. It is who users trust to automate the right things, for the right reasons, while keeping their reality at the centre.

EG EnerKey’s first thirty years show what that commitment looks like. The next thirty will demand even more of it.

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