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CleanTechnica
Published on December 9, 2018 |
by Michael Barnard
December 9, 2018 of Michael Barnard
Along with our normal daily coverage for clean technology news, CleanTechnica it also produces in-depth reports on various aspects of clean energy and clean transport. One of the emerging technologies we cover is not directly a clean technological innovation is blockchain, which promises to be a catalyst for innovation in the green economy in the near future. Blockchain is probably best known to the public as "having something to do with cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, right?", Which is partially correct, but the technology itself has a wide range of applications, some of which will be crucial in the fields of distributed renewable energy , network management and energy storage, and smart contracts, among others.
The full report Blockchain: an enabling innovator for clean technology, which was published in July, is a deep immersion in the blockchain and its potential, and we have published some extracts from the report in recent months. (Read the last episode here.)
Blockchain's clean technological solutions are born globally. At the moment we are witnessing 63 initiatives in 26 countries. Some are the efforts of innovation by the main utilities and sellers. Others are rapidly evolving start-ups by cryptocurrency entrepreneurs. Many will disappear in the next year or two, but as a group they keep a significant promise for innovation.
Initiative: 4New United Kingdom
Short description: Waste to energy power plant entirely integrated on the blockchain network and dedicated to crypto-mining
Country: United Kingdom
Initiative: ACWA Power and SolarCoin
Short description: Two solar systems with a capacity of 50 MW that generate electricity by confining SolarCoins
Country: Saudi Arabia
Initiative: ASTRN energy
Short description: P2P energy trading
Country: Australia
Initiative: Bankymoon Bitcoin smart meter
Short description: Pay-as-you-go-smart meter that uses cryptocurrency for immediate payments.
Country: South Africa
Initiative: Bas Nederland Payments
Short description: Utility that accepts Bitcoin to pay bills
Country: Netherlands
Initiative: Bittwatt
Brief description: supply of electricity in the network in real time and correspondence of the demand.
Country: Romania
Initiative: Blockchain Mining Ltd.
Brief description: Organization based in Quebec that acquires MW of renewable energy capacity for the extraction of sustainable blockchain
Country: Canada
Initiative: BlockchainPowerTrustneeTranseastern
Brief description: the renewable energy companies revolve to feed the extraction of cryptocurrencies with renewable sources
Country: Romania
Initiative: Brooklyn Microgrid
Short description: LO3 Energy Exergy used to manage payments between generators and users on a microgrid in Brooklyn.
Country: United States
Initiative: National Energy Commission in Chile
Short description: Contract for national grid energy negotiations on the Ethereum blockchain solution for transparency
Country: Chile
Initiative: Civitas solar with WePower
Short description: Spanish solar through WePower
Country: Spain
Initiative: ClimateCoin
Short description: ICO climate change for investment fund
Country: Spain
Initiative: Conquest solar with WePower
Short description: Spanish solar generation financed by WePower
Country: Spain
Initiative: Electrify Asia
Short description: Blockchain-based retail electricity market for Southeast Asia
Country: Singapore
Initiative: Elera and WePower
Brief description: large-scale tokenization of energy data in Estonia
Country: Estonia
Initiative: eMotorWerks
Short description: peer-to-peer charging for electric vehicles
Country: United States
Initiative: Enerchain European energy trading platform
Brief description: the large European utilities adhere to the blockchain energy trading platform
Country: Germany
Initiative: Energi Mine in the United Kingdom
Brief description: incentivize the efficient use of electricity with blockchain
Country: United Kingdom
Initiative: Carbon Block of Energy Blockchain Labs
Brief description: IBM Blockchain used in the process of reporting and verification of the development of carbon resources.
Country: China
Initiative: Energy Web Foundation
Brief description: open source and scalable platform for the management of decentralized energy
Country: United States
Initiative: EnerPort
Short description: start of P2P Irish energy trading
Country: Ireland
Initiative: Engie SA
Short description: French utility that uses blockchain to certify that electricity purchased from customers comes from renewable sources
Country: France
Initiative: Exergy Energy
Brief description: markets and localized energy devices
Country: United States
Initiative: Genercoin
Brief description: currency for transactions in biofuels
Country: Canada
Initiative: Grid Singularity
Short description: organization of events, publications and research focused on blockchain and clean technology
Country: Germany
Initiative: Grid + IOT energy saving
Short description: uses blockchain to record and manage IOT home devices for energy saving.
Country: United States
Initiative: ImpactPPA
Short description: P2P energy trading
Country: United States
Initiative: Sharing and charging Innogy
Short description: peer-to-peer charging for electric vehicles
Country: Germany
Initiative: KWHCoin
Short description: Financing power for microgrids with low power and small renewable resources globally
Country: United States
Initiative: LO3 and exchange of power
Short description: Connecting microgrids in Europe to larger wholesale networks
Country: United States
Initiative: NAD grid
Short description: Peer-to-peer energy trading platform
Country: United States
Initiative: NEMoGrid
Short description: P2P energy trading on a distribution network project with multiple utility participants in Europe
Country: Switzerland
Initiative: Nori Carbon Coin
Brief description: Nori is dedicated to the removal of carbon from the atmosphere by creating a carbon-based market for removing cryptocurrency.
Country: United States
Initiative: Novacorex solar with WePower
Short description: Italian solar generation financed by WePower
Country: Italy
Initiative: NovaTeqni
Short description: Feed the unpowered by microgrid and micropayments.
Country: Canada
Initiative: NREL and BlockCypher energy transactions
Short description: P2P energy trading
Country: United States
Initiative: Nyuta
Short description: Quick exploration of Bitcoin utility payments via Lightning with the third largest Japanese utility
Country: Japan
Initiative: Origin Energy with PowerLedger
Short description: 200-person microgrid that exchanges electricity in Sydney
Country: Australia
Initiative: PowerLedger peer-to-peer market
Brief Description: Provides a blockchain enabled peer-to-peer energy exchange market for
renewable energy.
Country: Australia
Initiative: Puerto Rico power exchange
Brief description: linking small-scale generation with local partners via blockchain
Country: United States
Initiative: Pylon blockchain smart meters
Short description: smart meters enabled by the blockchain
Country: Spain
Initiative: Qtum Foundation
Short description: microgrid blockchain solution from the Philippines
Country: Philippies
Initiative: Restart energy RED MWATT
Short description: European energy exchange platform
Country: Romania
Initiative: Robotine
Short description: European organization creating a blockchain-based network that, through artificial intelligence and intelligent physical devices, would optimize energy consumption
Country: Slovenia
Initiative: Seoul KEPCO P2P energy
Short description: small-scale energy exchanges with local generators in Seoul, South Korea
Country: South Korea
Initiative: SolarBankers
Short description: P2P energy trading
Country: Singapore
Initiative: SolarCoin
Short description: dotted rewards for solar power generation
Country: United States
Initiative: Group SP
Short description: certificates of renewable energy via blockchain
Country: Singapore
Initiative: TenneT-Sonnen eServices
Brief description: Blockchain used to record and balance battery storage on both ends of a transmission link from the North Sea wind generation.
Country: Netherlands
Initiative: Collaboration TenneT-Vandebron EV
Short description: Blockchain that acts as a network of signals distributed for cars that are recharged
Country: Netherlands
Initiative: Tepco Electron
Short description: exploration of the use of blockchain in the Japanese energy market
Country: Japan
Initiative: Thailand BCPG PowerLedger
Short description: Renewable energy peer-to-peer trade in Thailand
Country: Thailand
Initiative: United Nations coalition on climate change on the blockchain
Brief description: the UN establishes a working committee to investigate the uses of distributed accounting technologies in the fight against climate change
Country: United States
Initiative: US DOE and Guardtime
Brief description: Blockchain cybersecurity technology to help protect distributed energy resources at the edge of the network
Country: United States
Initiative: Utility payments
Short description: payment gateways that allow you to pay your bills with cryptocurrency.
Country: Mexico
Initiative: Verv
Short description: Microgrid energy trading
Country: United Kingdom
Initiative: WePower
Brief description: Blockchain based energy trading platform.
Country: Gibraltar
Initiative: Xage IOT Security with ABB
Short description: Grid IOT Device Endpoint Security enabled by blockchain with the industry leader ABB
Country: United States
Initiative: XiWatt
Short description: peer-to-peer charging for electric vehicles
Country: United States
See the summary of Blockchain: an enabling innovator for clean technology and request the full report at https://products.cleantechnica.com/reports/.
About the author
Michael Barnard is Chief Strategist with TFIE Strategy Inc. He collaborates with start-ups, existing companies and investors to identify significant growth opportunities in terms of costs and takeouts in our rapidly changing world. He is editor of The Future is Electric, a publication of Medium. He regularly posts low-carbon technologies and policies at sites like Newsweek, Slate, Forbes, Huffington Post, Quartz, CleanTechnica and RenewEconomy, and his work is regularly included in textbooks. Third-party articles about his analysis and interviews have been published in dozens of global news sites and have reached # 1 on Reddit Science. Much of his work was born on Quora.com, where Mike has been a Top Writer every year since 2012. He is available for advice, linguistic commitments and Council positions.
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