A blockchain-enabled electricity market that rewards trading with local and trusted “energy neighbours” has been proposed by a team of Australian researchers.
Researchers put case for blockchain-based market of “energy neighbours”
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Retailer’s first “shared” community battery to be located in NSW coal country
Enova Community Energy names Kurri Kurri, in NSW Hunter Region, as the site for its first “shared battery” – a part of the retailer’s peer-to-peer solar trading trial.
Consumers want it, networks need it: Verdict in on world-first blockchain solar trading trial
Report on W.A. trial using Power Ledger blockchain technology finds peer-to-peer solar energy trading technically feasible, good for grid and consumers – but unlikely to take off under current network tariff structures.
Power Ledger solar trading software rolled out to PowerClub members in S.A.
Peer-to-peer trading specialist Power Ledger inks major deal to roll out its blockchain-based technology on commercial scale in South Australia via upstart energy retailer Powerclub.
Power Ledger trials P2P solar trading platform in first regional setting
P2P software platform to be trialled across nine commercial and one council site in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region – a first for the Perth-based solar sharing company.
Shared solar and communal battery to power 100% renewable W.A. housing estate
A 100% renewable residential development in W.A. will feature blockchain-ready solar homes, a microgrid supply network for water and power and – in what is being claimed as an Australian first – a shared on-site 670kWh battery.
New energy platform connects small solar farms with buyers
South Australia based start-up, Oxamii, has developed a system to make it easier for owners of solar arrays 200kW and larger to sell power on the spot market.
World-leading rooftop solar trading trial kicks off in Fremantle
WA energy minister launches “world-first” active, billed, peer-to-peer trading trial allowing 40 households to buy and sell rooftop solar energy generated on their rooftops, across the grid.
AGL to expand P2P trial in Adelaide, as consumers embrace solar sharing
AGL Energy solar trading trial set to be expanded in Adelaide, potentially giving buyers access to solar at prices lower than the grid, and sellers a higher price than the feed-in tariff.
Origin Energy trials solar trading with blockchain start-up Power Ledger
Origin Energy will trial peer-to-peer solar energy trading using the blockchain-based platform of Perth start-up Power Ledger.
