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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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The Biggest Sustainability Stories of 2019 (and what to watch for in 2020)

Andrew Winston

Ingersoll Rand, owner of the big HVAC brands like Trane (and a client of mine), pledged to reduce customer carbon footprint by 1 gigaton. SAP and Bumble Bee Tuna used blockchain to track fresh fish from the ocean to table. Ikea added another €200 million to its investments in being carbon neutral by 2030.

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This AI-driven energy efficiency app in Madrid's metro has many fans

GreenBiz

The software has helped Metro de Madrid reduce its energy costs by 25 percent so far.

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Matter smart home IoT standard launched

Smart Energy International

Among the features are security policies and processes using blockchain technology to validate device certification and provenance in order to help to ensure users are connecting authentic, certified and up-to-date devices to their homes and networks. Have you read?

IoT 105