July 4th, 2020
Via Eco Business, a report on technology which allows rural solar panel owners to sell excess power to neighbors, improving income and access to clean energy: A start-up that helps rural Bangladeshi owners of home solar power systems trade their surplus electricity with their neighbours won an international award for climate change innovation Thursday. SOLshare, set […]
Read more »Enabling Resilient, Low Cost, and Localized Electricity Markets Through Blockchain P2P & VPP Trading
July 1st, 2020
Via Power Ledger, further insight into an Australian solar trial of peer-to-peer energy trading: Power Ledger’s solar energy trading trial of 48 households in Fremantle, Western Australia, finds peer-to-peer energy trading technically feasible. Report finds use of Virtual Power Plants could increase localised energy autonomy and deliver a lower cost grid. Recommends a dynamic feed-in tariff […]
Read more »June 18th, 2020
Via PVTech, a report on a recent Australian trial of peer-to-peer solar trading: A small-scale trial of solar energy trading between households in Western Australia has found that peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading is technically feasible and that virtual power plants (VPPs) could help deliver a lower cost grid. RENeW NExus, a project in Fremantle, a […]
Read more »Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading In Delhi
April 18th, 2020
Via Smart Energy International, a report on an effort to bring blockchain to India’s power consumers: Electricity distributor BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) has partnered with Power Ledger, a specialist in blockchain-based renewable energy trading, to install a large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading trial in Delhi, India. BRPL is the first electricity distribution company (Discom) […]
Read more »March 24th, 2020
Courtesy of Yahoo! Finance, a look at several new startups are about to revolutionize the sharing economy : The Airbnb of energy, the Uber of zero-carbon transportation, the VRBO of blockchain electricity-sharing… a collection of new startups are about to revolutionize the sharing economy – and smart money is starting to pay attention. The sharing […]
Read more »Is Blockchain Still Key to a Better Energy System?
February 7th, 2020
Via Clean Energy Finance Forum, a look at the role that blockchain technology may have in the transition towards a more transactive energy system: BLOCKCHAIN PROPONENTS HAVE ARGUED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY CAN ENABLE A MORE DYNAMIC, DECENTRALIZED ELECTRICITY SYSTEM, referred to as “transactive energy,” which would promote deployment and accurate compensation of distributed energy resources. HOWEVER, […]
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