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Energy blockchain startup FlexiDAO secures Google and Microsoft backing

Smart Energy International

FlexiDAO plans to scale its renewables tracking platform, particularly in the US and Europe, with $6.5 FlexiDAO, a Spanish-Dutch startup, is a renewables matching and certification platform built on the blockchain for 24/7 electricity and carbon tracking. million raised in Series A funding. Have you read?

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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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Technology Trending: ADC Energy, lunar storage, PV cleaning bot

Smart Energy International

Alternating direct current energy validated, blockchain-based data storage on the Moon and the SunnyApp solar PV cleaning bot are on the week’s technology radar. Alternating direct current energy validated Energy is traditionally either in the form of alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC). Have you read?

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Technology Trending: Cyber protection for space data, battery passport, battery for hot climates

Smart Energy International

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud, Citopia network for a global battery passport and a high performance non-flammable battery option for warm climates are on the week’s technology radar. However, expensive, fire-prone battery technologies are serious impediments to ambitious plans for rapid growth. Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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Volvo issues EV battery passport 3 years ahead of EU requirements

Charged

Volvo took over five years to develop the passport, in partnership with UK startup Circulor, which uses blockchain technology to map supply chains for companies. Deliveries in Europe and North America will begin in the second half of the year. The EX90 SUV is to start production soon at Volvo’s plant in South Carolina.

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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Still Looks Like a Distant Prospect

GreenTechMedia

Since then, the idea of selling the power generated by your rooftop solar panels to other individuals in the same way you might let your spare room through Airbnb has gained plenty of attention thanks to the pitches from blockchain platform developers such as Grid+. Europe and Australia at the vanguard. an expert says. an expert says.

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Energy Blockchain’s Most Obvious Use Case Is Not What You Think

GreenTechMedia

Blockchain finally seems to have found a here-and-now application in the power market — and it isn’t energy trading. Instead, a select group of blockchain companies is finding success with a focus on certificates of origin, helping demonstrate the provenance of renewable energy supplies.