Decentralized Energy
Blockchain meets renewables for South African microgrid project
UK headquartered blockchain platform developer Cenfura is partnering with renewable solution provider DNA Global Energy on microgrid development.
Digitalization
Three novel blockchain use cases emerging in the energy sector
Clean energy loan fraud, biomass traceability and a company auditing system are among the novel blockchain use cases currently emerging.
Digitalization
Blockchain renewables tracking app to be commercialised
Energy Web has received a Good Energies Foundation grant to commercialise the EW Zero blockchain renewables procurement marketplace.
Digitalization
Blockchain, cybersecurity focus in NAESB digital technology standards
The North American Energy Standards Boards (NAESB) is to continue to focus on standards development to support blockchain and more generally cybersecurity.
Digitalization
Blockchain + clean energy = sustainable finance
A new open source application from Energy Web is designed to enable blockchains to be transitioned to zero carbon electricity.
Big Data
EON puts customer in control of energy data with blockchain prototype
E.ON has developed a blockchain technology that says will allow its customers to have transparency and complete control over their own energy data.
Big Data
Blog: Blockchain’s coming of age in the enterprise world
At the Business Blockchain Summit in London recently, Dale Chrystie, FedEx’s Blockchain strategist, invoked the words of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, who said that in business there were no prizes coming second: to stay ahead, business must innovate.
Asia
EWF launches world’s first open source blockchain for the energy industry
The Energy Web Foundation (EWF) this week announced that it has launched the world’s first public, open-source, enterprise-grade blockchain tailored to the energy sector: the Energy Web Chain (EW Chain).
Asia
Blockchain project aims to unlock ‘siloed’ energy potential
A new project aims to use blockchain to help create a shared register for power generation and energy storage asset data in the UK.
Digitalization
ABB and Italian utility in blockchain pact for solar prosumers
ABB is working with Italian utility Evolvere on how to use blockchain technology to deliver transparent and secure peer-to-peer energy transactions.
