As everyone jumps onto the blockchain bandwagon to implement it in sectors like finance and land records, its use in the energy distribution sector seems to hold a lot of promise. This article explores its potential.
After Bitcoin demonstrated the potential of blockchain, people from many industries sat up. Though the financial services sector was an early adopter, it did not use this technology merely for cryptocurrency purposes, but rather for reasons of security and authentication. A publicly distributed chain of blocks, each block representing data or a transaction, was virtually tamper-proof. Soon, other verticals, like the energy sector, began exploring the potential of blockchain.
The Brooklyn Grid
One of the early proofs of concept (PoCs) of how blockchain could work in the utilities space is the Brooklyn Grid that was set up in 2015. This began in a single neighbourhood in New York. Some residents set up solar panels that fed the grid—these are whom we call prosumers. Others were just consumers. This part of the operations involved Siemens (multinational in the electricity space, which took care of digital grids and components) and LO3 Energy (firm that develops blockchain-based solutions that have changed how energy is generated, stored, bought and sold, at a local level).
At the first stage, with neighbours on the grid connected to each other, the system worked as follows:
1. A home solar energy generator’s units of power were tokenised as it got fed into the common grid.
2. Tokens could be bought directly by others in the grid, who were just electricity consumers, bypassing the need to deal with a centralised authority or utility.
3. Transactions were stored in a public Ethereum blockchain.
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