blockchain

A blockchain-enabled electricity market that would reward households for trading with local and trusted “energy neighbours” has been proposed by a team of researchers from Victoria and Queensland. In a paper published in the May edition of…

Source: Flickr The massive and expanding data centres that enable our online lives are huge energy users. The top 100 data centres in Australia account for four per cent of our total energy use – more than any sector other than resources.…

An Australian government-backed trial of peer-to-peer (P2P) solar trading has demonstrated the potential of localized two-sided energy markets and blockchain technology to improve the energy system. However, current electricity tariff…

The 9.4MW Robinvale Solar Farm is Suntech’s first 100% owned project in the Australian pipeline to come to fruition and the first solar project in Australia to deploy WePower’s blockchain-based PPA architecture, which opens up…

Aerial view of Robinvale solar farm. Image: Suntech The completion of the 9.4MW Robinvale solar farm last week marked a milestone not just for the project’s developer Suntech, but also for a company called WePower and its plans to open up…