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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. are testing it out.

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Canadian utility creates marketplace for DER households using blockchain technology

Renewable Energy World

Canada’s largest municipally-owned electric utility has launched a pilot program that allows customers with distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in an energy marketplace using blockchain technology. Twenty-one households in Ontario will participate in the three-month pilot program.

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Smart Energy Finances: Growth financing for AI-based network resilience

Smart Energy International

Have you read: bp to deploy AI for battery to grid flexibility IEA net zero update reiterates need for rapid grid expansion The System of Enablement will also enable insights into how existing electricity network infrastructure can be optimised to remove renewable integration constraints associated with network availability and accessibility.

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Ontario aiming for uniform EV charging permitting

Smart Energy International

As of December 2023, there are more than 150,000 EVs registered in Ontario, including both battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published by Sean Wolfe on, and edited with permission from, Power Grid.

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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates

GreenTechMedia

A British initiative is looking to dismiss the argument that renewables could topple the grid — by using distributed energy resources for a black start. More generally, there is growing interest worldwide in using distributed energy resources to carry out grid functions that have previously been the domain of large thermal plants.

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Could Flex Services Draw New Players to Energy Sector?

GreenTechMedia

The mobile giant and the energy blockchain leader last month announced a partnership to use subscriber identification module (SIM) technology as a means to identify distributed electricity system assets on the grid. COVID-19 exposes flexibility challenges. energy consultancy.

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Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power

Smart Energy International

When deployed together with electricity storage systems such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries, organizations can further reduce facility operating costs and in some cases, earn additional revenue through participation in the energy market. Have you read? $38

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