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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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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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Technology Trending: REC transactions and energy consumption matching

Smart Energy International

EDF leads a proof-of-concept on automating renewable energy transactions and Eurelectric’s study on the benefits of matching energy consumption with clean energy on a (near) real-time basis are on the week’s technology radar. We are shaping a future where renewable energy adoption is streamlined, transparent and accessible to all.”

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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. That growth is equivalent to adding an extra country’s worth of electricity demand; Sweden under a more modest scenario or Germany at the most.

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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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Smart Energy Finances: Growth financing for AI-based network resilience

Smart Energy International

million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology. Using the investment for its growth, Neara will offer “enterprise-grade, 3D network modelling technology”, they state in a release, that uses AI and machine learning to aggregate broad spectrums of data sources into one digital simulation environment.