Remove Blockchain Remove Electric vehicle Remove Europe Remove Investment
article thumbnail

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. are testing it out.

article thumbnail

Blockchain in Europe’s energy sector – policy and regulation

Smart Energy International

Challenges remain for the deployment of blockchain in the energy sector, the EU’s Enerchain project has found. The project, undertaken by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre under an agreement with DG-Ener, was aimed to investigate the applicability and potential of blockchain technologies in the energy sector.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

First carbon neutral apartment building coming on blockchain

Smart Energy International

Australian blockchain pioneer Powerledger’s Montreal Commons project is set to be one of the world’s first carbon neutral apartment buildings. Powerledger targets over 3 million peer-to-peer prosumers by 2030 Horizon Europe: Five next-gen data projects. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

article thumbnail

Technology Trending: What to look out for in 2024

Smart Energy International

Decentralisation, blockchain and AI, the future grid and the space race are some of the areas in which numerous advances have been made in 2023 and are set to continue during 2024. These include the need for significant and urgent investments, in Europe for example an estimated €584 billion ($641 billion) by 2030.

article thumbnail

Smart Energy Finances Weekly: Asian stakes and the race to net zero

Smart Energy International

In this iteration of Smart Energy Finances Weekly, the Asian region shows interest in smart metering and electric vehicle (EV) expansion while flexibility and energy storage continue to prove key markets in the European domain. 22m VC investment funnelled into Sympower. 135m equity investment into ESS developer.

article thumbnail

Electron’s flexibility platform gets £4 million boost

Smart Energy International

UK energy market solution provider Electron has secured £4 million ($5 million) in investment funding to grow the use of its ElectronConnect flexibility platform. Other partners in the investment round were Riverstone, Nesta and One Planet Capital.

article thumbnail

Digitalising Europe’s energy sector – the strategy

Smart Energy International

Responsibilities of this D4E group, which will be comprised of EU-wide public and private representation, will include developing a portfolio of high level use cases for data exchanges in energy, including flexibility services for the energy markets and grids, smart and bi-directional charging of electric vehicles and smart buildings.