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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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Canadian utility creates marketplace for DER households using blockchain technology

Renewable Energy World

Canada’s largest municipally-owned electric utility has launched a pilot program that allows customers with distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in an energy marketplace using blockchain technology. Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use

The Verge: Energy

More Bitcoin is mined in the US than anywhere else in the world , a trend that has sparked legal battles over the impact energy-hungry crypto mines have on the power grid, nearby communities, and the environment. Industry groups were quick to challenge the move in court.

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AI and crypto mining are driving up data centers’ energy use

The Verge: Energy

The world will need a lot more renewable energy to clean up pollution from power grids and satiate skyrocketing electricity demand from data centers at the same time. In London, data center electricity demands have made it harder to develop more housing. Electricity demand for cryptocurrencies is expected to jump by 40 percent by 2026.

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ePioneers test traffic turnaround on German grid

Smart Energy International

The project aimed to provide important practical insights into how the control via an intelligent measuring system must be designed to support the integration of electric vehicles into the power grid in the best possible way. We noticed a significantly higher load on the power grid, especially in the evenings and during the week.

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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates

GreenTechMedia

More generally, there is growing interest worldwide in using distributed energy resources to carry out grid functions that have previously been the domain of large thermal plants.

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Ontario aiming for uniform EV charging permitting

Smart Energy International

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