How can EVs offer more to local energy communities? Maria Atkinson AM explores what a typical day could soon look like, using an EV alongside Powerledger technology. — The way we commute in our day-to-day lives has changed dramatically over the last century. The modern vehicle today is more than a mode of transportation. It is a moving form of life. It has the ability to provide sustainable energy at the time and place it is required most…

The increasing amount of renewable generation creates challenges for the energy providers. Variable renewable energy (VRE), as the name suggests, creates a varying or fluctuating electricity supply. A local energy market (LEM) helps to reduce the impact of fluctuating supply by strategically controlling the VREs and loads. Such a mechanism…

Rhode Island is as good an example as any of the way the energy transformation is occurring. Rhode Island (RI), ahead of other US states, has just set its sights on fast tracking net zero by 2033. In 2017 it became the first state to build an offshore wind farm…

A little while ago we decided to move from an Ethereum based blockchain to a more powerful blockchain design, one that could handle an industrial level of transactions that will be needed as we grow. To do this required moving from proof-of-authority, to proof-of-stake validation, and having external validators. We’re…

The need for Local Energy Markets which balance renewable generation with local demand is growing. The large, monolithic applications like the Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) which have been used to manage our energy grid are now not entirely adequate on their own. To assist the grid transitioning from having…

Demand Response (DR) is a method to cut or shift electrical demand. Traditionally, this has been done in a top-down centralised fashion, but there is a better, customer-centric, way to do this writes Imran Azim. In the US, over the last four years, the major electricity authorities have been running…

The World Summit Awards declares Powerledger as winner of the ‘Environment and Green Energy’ Category for 2022 Powerledger has been crowned Global Champion at the World Summit Awards (WSA) for our work in promoting distributed energy in Uttar Pradesh, India. Powerledger was awarded the top honour for the ‘Environment and…