The new energy paradigm

re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions vor 8 Jahren

Blockchain technology will reduce transaction costs in the energy sector, enable active participation of a larger number of market participants (consumers and devices) and, as a consequence, accelerate the transition towards a cleaner, more resilient, and

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Kai Krämer, Sarah Hambridge Blockchain technology has the
potential to accelerate the transition to the clean energy future,
by redesigning the rules of the game on how energy is distributed
and transacted. As blockchain soars to new heights of hype
there’s a critical need for the value of the technology to be
established in major industries. The mission is clear:
accelerating the arrival of blockchain technology across the energy
sector, so we enable the transition to a decentralized, more
democratic and carbon-free energy sector. The EWF is a global
non-profit organization focused on capturing this potential.
Currently, EWF is building an open-source blockchain infrastructure
to serve as the standard industry platform for blockchain
applications in the energy sector to accelerate the deployment of
renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs). A platform like
the one being built by EWF will be defined by the applications it
supports. It will be able to host and run every energy use case,
redefining the energy sector as a decentralized AppStore for energy
dApps. By developing a platform that addresses the specific needs
of the energy industry, we created an ecosystem of energy players,
start-ups and developers, incentivizing the exchange of knowledge
between them. This was vital to eliminate repetition of efforts and
to leverage scarce talent. In this session, we'll talk about the
disruptive potential of blockchain in the energy sector and why the
EWF is the key to unlock it. We will provide an overview on the
most promising energy use cases based on blockchain technology.
Essentially, we will describe how the future we are building looks
like. supported by T-Labs