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PowerPod proposes a blockchain-based decentralised EV charging network

Smart Energy International

Technology startup PowerPod is developing a blockchain-based ‘decentralised physical infrastructure network’ (DePIN) of community-owned EV charging stations. To enable the integration, PowerPod is to use the community run blockchain from peaq as the layer 1 backbone. Have you read?

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Blockchain demonstrated for smart grid cybersecurity

Smart Energy International

Blockchain has been demonstrated to validate communication among devices on the smart grid and thereby enhance its resiliency. Equipment settings are collected at frequent intervals and compared to the last good configuration saved in the blockchain. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Blockchain: Opening doors in the energy sector

Renewable Energy World

Blockchain is most commonly known as the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies, the most well-known of which is Bitcoin. In a 2018 article, Deloitte forecasted that blockchain will serve as the ‘underlying backbone’ of the energy sector’s transactional infrastructure. What is blockchain?

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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. are testing it out.

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$38 million renewable fund to offset blockchain energy use in US

Smart Energy International

Green cryptocurrency mining demonstrated Energy Web, RMI, AIR partner on green blockchain action. In time, the goal is for its blockchain to become carbon negative. Filecoin Green was developed in partnership with Energy Web as a showcase of a cryptocurrency decarbonisation initiative.

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Blockchain peer-to-peer energy exchange launches in UK

Smart Energy International

Blockchain energy trading initiative launched in Germany First blockchain platform for green hydrogen tracking developed. We are working together to make the electricity supplied to customers fully traceable to the UK farm where it was produced.”. And this is what UrbanChain is enabling,” states Dan Bates, CEO of Rebel Energy.

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New blockchain crowdfunding platform to launch for solar in Africa

Smart Energy International

Still around 621 million people lack access to electricity, particularly in the remote and rural areas across the continent, which has abundant solar resources. Funding energy efficiency on the blockchain Initiate Talks: Jo-Jo Hubbard, Electron Oracles and blockchains – managing climate change in the energy sector.