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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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Accelerating energy transition by forming virtual power plants on blockchain

Renewable Energy World

Influenced by the increasing penetration of “behind-the-meter” distributed energy resources (DER), power systems are experiencing a paradigm shift from a centralized structure to a decentralized one. Australia has the highest uptake of solar globally, with more than 2.68 Increase in DER integration.

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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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Green Mountain Power pilots blockchain-driven solar for low and moderate income customers

Smart Energy International

Vermont power distribution company Green Mountain Power is piloting LO3 Energy’s Pando local energy marketplace platform. Green Mountain Power’sSun Match’ pilot is aimed to enable low and middle-income customers to benefit from solar power without them having to build their own systems.

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Namibia’s green hydrogen to be verified on blockchain

Smart Energy International

The partnership through the University of Namibia will include establishing a blockchain-native registry and verification system for quantifying the country’s carbon sequestration, carbon emissions and carbon credits from green hydrogen projects within Namibia. Satellite monitoring will be a key input to the verification tool. “By

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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.

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Technology Trending: What to look out for in 2024

Smart Energy International

Decentralisation, blockchain and AI, the future grid and the space race are some of the areas in which numerous advances have been made in 2023 and are set to continue during 2024. Over the course of 2023 – and indeed since its start in mid-2022 – this column has not been short of possible new and future technology content to feature.