Companies

The following are summaries of some of the trendiest companies in the blockchain space focused on the energy space.  

Power Ledger

Power Ledger is building an operating system for energy marketplaces and trading. They have various products allowing different types of producers to sell electricity to consumers. They also have a product that allows owners of apartment buildings and malls to sell power directly to their tenants. The company has active projects in several countries. The largest project is in Thailand where the software is being used within an area that has 700kW of solar capacity, making it the largest commercial peer to peer trial in the world. The company also has some other pilot projects it was just awarded for peer to peer trading in India, and Japan.

Sun Exchange

Sun Exchange developed a blockchain-based solar panel micro-leasing platform. They also develop DG projects, and currently have a few in South Africa. Once projects are ready, through this platform, anyone with an internet connection can purchase solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and lease them to the project which was developed-in short creating crowd funded leasing programs. Solar cell owners receive lease rental payments, while people in emerging countries can enjoy the benefits of affordable clean energy. Sun Exchange has over 4,000 registered members located in over 70 countries so far. The following link is to Sun Exchange Spar Belfast Supermarket Offering.  

WePower

WePower provides direct access to renewable energy producers for consumers. Currently they are operating in Estonia on a project with the regulator, and in Australia. The following is a summary of their product directly from their white paper.

According to their website, WePower offers a revolutionary renewable energy marketplace, based on smart contracts and energy tokenization technology, that allows Energy Buyers to contract directly with renewable energy projects. The Platform enables Project Owners to run auctions where they sell part of their energy production. During the auction, Buyers place bids – specifying their desired volume and price. Successful Buyers are issued with a digital PPA that encapsulates the price and volume achieved at the conclusion of the auction. A settlement between the Project Owners and the Energy Buyers will take place on a monthly basis per the terms of the PPA. Other than the key auction variables of product, volume, price, and term, the WePower PPA is a fixed document that is not subject to change for specific auctions. Energy Buyers and Project Owners are able to download and review the terms of the PPA prior to joining the Platform and decide whether they can accept the terms and therefore participate in an auction, or not. Standardization of the PPA means that it only needs to be reviewed once, reducing the overall transaction costs and simplifying the regular use of the Platform by Buyers and Owners.

LO3 Energy

LO3 Energy is developing platform’s for energy trading using blockchain.  Currently they have one platform for utilities and retailers called Pando, and one for microgrids called Exergy. They have a pilot project called Brooklyn microgrid on the Exergy platform which enables residential power producers in Brooklyn to sell power in auctions to consumers in Brooklyn. The following link is to the Brooklyn Microgrid Promotional Video.

Electron

Electron is developing an energy trading platform, which looks to assist everyone in a power market. They didn’t issue a currency, and instead have partnered with Tokyo Electric(TEPCO) to bring their product to life

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