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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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Technology Trending: REC transactions and energy consumption matching

Smart Energy International

EDF leads a proof-of-concept on automating renewable energy transactions and Eurelectric’s study on the benefits of matching energy consumption with clean energy on a (near) real-time basis are on the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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

Smart Energy International

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Could Flex Services Draw New Players to Energy Sector?

GreenTechMedia

A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The endgame is to give an even wider range of devices access to future flexibility services markets, said Energy Web chief executive officer Walter Kok. In the U.K.,

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Driving Down Emissions: Polestar confirms further cuts to EV carbon footprint

Business Green

Electric vehicle (EV) maker Polestar reduced its per-car greenhouse gas-emissions by six per cent last year as it continues to pursue its "moon shot" target of creating a truly net zero EV by the end of the decade. Through annual reports, we monitor our direction towards our ambitious goals and show that we do what we say.".

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Meet Our Newest Startup Members

Greentown Labs

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. ELECTRICITY. This energy storage solution is low-cost, flexible, and long-duration. MANUFACTURING.