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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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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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Ontario aiming for uniform EV charging permitting

Smart Energy International

Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published by Sean Wolfe on, and edited with permission from, Power Grid.

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ComEd to lead impact study of climate change on the grid

Smart Energy International

Oracles and blockchains – managing climate change in the energy sector Climate innovation: Wins, challenges and gaps. In particular, it should further inform ComEd’s multi-year integrated grid plan, which will be filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) in January 2023. Have you read?

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Technology Trending: REC transactions and energy consumption matching

Smart Energy International

Such 24/7 hourly matching yields multiple benefits from increasing corporate sustainability claims’ transparency, thanks to more granular carbon accounting, to incentivising investments in renewables and storage technologies, to decarbonising and digitalising the power grid, states the study.

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Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power

Smart Energy International

When deployed together with electricity storage systems such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries, organizations can further reduce facility operating costs and in some cases, earn additional revenue through participation in the energy market. Have you read? $38 ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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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.”