"The energy sector is digitalizing - we see a lot of smart energy services providing higher value to customers through data processing, which also increases the importance of transparency and security of data access and processing. Nevertheless, the widespread use of these services is lagging behind for enabling fundamental transitions of energy systems. This interdisciplinary article operationalises the MLP of sustainability transitions and draws together previous research on the application and implications of energy data and consumer motivation for analysing the imbalance between the supply and demand of smart energy services in the current energy transition. Besides drawing together the opportunities and challenges with energy data of 85 international smart energy services, the empirical findings present some new energy data use cases aimed especially for consumers and provide an extensive overview of additional data types with reasoning needed by service providers. These findings are complemented with the more in-depth Estonian electricity sector digitalization case study. Furthermore, we propose a list of characteristics essential for Pan-European energy data access with the main aim to open up data, activate consumers and increase the demand of smart energy services for speeding up the green energy transition."

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