Energy Blockchain
IOTA Sets Stage for Zero-Cost Digital Energy Trading
Much more than a digital cryptocurrency, IOTA tokens are said to open gateways for individuals and organizations, or rather their digital, virtual proxies and automated software agents, to carry out activities across what IOTA expects and hopes will be a virtually limitless vista of distributed, peer-to-peer (P2P) Tangle network transaction and distributed ledger systems and applications, and at zero cost.
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BTL Blockchain Energy Transaction Processing Platform Advances to “Go-To Production” Phase
Following successful pilot testing with BP, Eni and Wien Enerige, Vancouver's BTL Group is inviting energy companies to participate in development and launch of a planned six month-long blockchain-based distributed energy transaction processing platform.
Read more →Billion-Dollar Benefits Foreseen via Tandem Energy Blockchain-Internet of Things Tech
Blockchain applications can streamline the entire process of bringing natural gas from well-fields to consumers, eliminating security vulnerabilities and entire facets of the process completely, according to BTL Group.
Read more →Multiple Billion-Dollar Rewards If Energy Blockchains Can Live Up to the Hype
Reducing the vulnerability of the Oil & Gas industry value chain to cyber-threats, which are poised to multiply, is just one of several prospective streams of cost savings that reach billion-dollar multiples, energy blockchain-focused BTL Group asserts in a white paper.
Read more →TenneT, IBM Launch Pilot Distributed Energy-Blockchain Projects in Germany and the Netherlands
The pioneering, utility-scale distributed energy-grid integraion projects will incorporate utility customers electric vehicle (EV) and household battery storage capacity and make use of a permissioned blockchain transaction/database system to be built by IBM using the Hyperledger Fabric platform.
Read more →IOTA Tangle Takes the Blocks Out of Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Ledger Networks
IOTA Tangle resolves key questions regarding blockchain-based transaction and distributed ledger systems, holding out the prospect of throwing the doors of e-mobility wide open.
Read more →California Cleantech Startup Readies U.S. Launch of Blockchain-based EV/E-Mobility Digital Wallet
Oxygen Initiative and Germany's Innogy SE are adapting the Share&Charge e-mobility payments solution for use in the U.S., a bid that may spur uptake of EVs and hasten the advent of fully autonomous vehicles.
Read more →BTL, Wien Energie to Launch Pilot Blockchain Energy Trading Platform
The project partners aim to demonstrate how BTL's Interbit can be used to streamline notoriously cumbersome energy/power industry transaction processing and book-keeping and result in substantially reduced operational and adiministrative costs.
Read more →New Solar Cells, Supercapacitors, Blockchain Apps Expected to Drive Renewable Power Costs Down Further
Renewable power generation is now cost competitive with fossil fuels, and industry participants foresee further gains ahead in light of ongoing technological innovation, efforts to craft industry standards and revise regulatory structures.
Read more →EV-Multipurpose Charging Station Combines Blockchain, IoT Tech
Blockchainfirst's Ethan BIoT EV/Multipurpose Charging Station is the latest in a series of blockchain-enabled IoT devices the Singapore startup has introduced, and the first of a series of planned new product introductions in the works for 2017.
Read more →Blockchain Hackathon Success Spurs Launch of New P2P Energy Trading Platform, Startup
Success at Energy Academy Europe's "Hackenergy 2016," subsequent "hackathon" experiences and positive response from sponsors and industry insiders has led to the creation of a working prototype P2P distributed solar/energy trading/transaction platform and blockchain "green" energy startup.
Read more →Solarplaza Shines Light on Blockchain Green Energy Prospects
Amidst growing experimentation, a mix of factors leads energy industry pros to believe Africa has is fertile ground for applying blockchain in the power-energy sectors.
Read more →An Off-Grid Vision for 2025 With Solar, Storage, Efficiency, and Autonomous EVs
The year is 2025 and like most of your neighbors, your house is not connected to the electric grid. During the summer, it is almost completely powered by the solar panels on your roof, which look like traditional roofing shingles…
Read more →Blockchain Underpins Germany’s NEW 4.0 100 Percent Renewable Energy Plan
Envisaged as a milestone on the path to a distributed, all-renewable energy infrastructure, Germany's NEW 4.0 project is to make use of a Blockchain-based platform that incorporates smart contracts, a distributed ledger and open smart energy exchange.
Read more →UK Blockchain Startup Aims to Revamp Energy Sector from the Top-Down
Electron is working with U.K. gas and electricity market stakeholders in a bid to convince them of the advantages and benefits to be gained from migrating from a hodgepodge of systems currently used to track ownership and operation of grid assets, customer billing, accounts and the like to an open, yet all but incorruptible distributed online ledger and transaction system, such as its Ethereum Blockchain-based platform.
Read more →Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?
Touted as the next ¨transformational¨ digital information and communications technology, interest and investment in Blockchain projects and ventures is diffusing out from banking and financial services to include power and energy markets. Several issues serve as barriers, however.
Read more →Energy Industry First: Siemens, LO3 Energy to Link Blockchain Trading, Microgrid Management Technology
Brooklyn, New York's LO3 Energy is at the leading edge of a fundamental restructuring and retooling of energy production and distribution. A partnership with Siemens should give the startup a big ¨leg up¨ as it seeks to expand use of its Ethereum Blockchain-based, P2P microgrid distributed energy trading software.
Read more →LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under
Brooklyn, NY-based LO3 Energy is leveraging initial demo installations in the U.S. in a bid to expand globally. Management on Nov. 3 announced it has established itself in Byron Bay, Australia where it is in discussions with local energy market players to build demo installations and pilot P2P energy trading platforms based on Ethereum smart contracts and blockchain RDBMS technology.
Read more →Finnish Research Team Lays Out Blockchain Microgrid Platform Development Model
The ETLA research team identifies and defines a target state and use case -- an adaptive distributed energy resource management platform for an apartment building owned by a Swedish housing society -- and proceeds to elaborate how blockchain can be used in concert with other available and required technological components to design and build one.
Read more →Blockchain and the Rise of Peer-to-Peer Power Markets
Mirror images of one another, blockchain-based P2P transaction networks and distributed energy resource management platforms seem to go hand-in-glove. It may be years before the first large-scale commercial platforms are launched, however.
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