• Power Ledger will migrate its own Powerledger Energy Blockchain from Ethereum to a Solana based blockchain, which is much faster and able to support higher transaction throughput.
• Solana’s design is also less energy intensive than existing Proof-of-Work (POW) blockchains, as it utilizes Proof-of-History (POH) and Proof-of-Stake (POS) consensus mechanisms.
• Solana achieves scalability through POH as a timing mechanism, which enables short block times of 400 milliseconds, fast throughput of more than 50,000 transactions per second all while maintaining censorship resistance.
• Staking will be available to all of Power Ledger’s POWR token holders with expressions of interest also being sought for…

On 29 June, 2021 Power Ledger hosted the invite-only, Chatham-House-Rules roundtable “DERs: a Grid’s Flexibility Solution.” Senior representatives of ABB (US) and ABB/Hitachi Power Grids (UK), Enel X, E.ON Innovation, European Power Exchange, ion Ventures, North Carolina State University, and Power Ledger were “at the table”. Geographically, perspectives spanned from California and North Carolina (U.S.) through the UK and Germany to Western Australia.

The overall sentiment was that of a pleasant surprise at the substantial degree of alignment across the group this diverse.

Biggest untapped or under-tapped opportunities?

Automation of flexibilities deployment including across existing infrastructure and activation of local energy markets rose to the…

Dear POWR token holders and larger community,

There has been plenty going on at Power Ledger with some new clients joining us with major projects.

Tata Power, and Carlton United Breweries, to name but two and these form a backdrop of some of the interesting changes we are announcing here and in the coming week.

Escrow Report: July 2020 — June 2021

Firstly, here are the escrow numbers for the last 12 months:

1,988,743 POWR

The start of 2021 saw rising POWR prices, which meant that less POWR was escrowed for provision of services to customers.

You will see 5,502,004 POWR held in Power Ledger’s escrow wallet…

Power Ledger’s Sheree Ip spoke at China’s Global NFTs Digital IP and Asset Summit 全球NFT数字版权与资产峰会, hosted by Guangzhou’s Oumi Blockchain Technology Co. Ltd. At the summit invited industry leaders, corporate founders and elite scholars from many countries around the world, attended and shared their global insights on NFTs.

Chinese media outlet, Sina Finance, covered the key speeches at the summit. The summit discussed the current applications of NFT in finance, copyright and Internet of Things hardware. With the speakers covering a wide range of fields from art collections, cultural copyrights, digital identities, games, virtual worlds, edge computing to financial derivatives…

New assets, new services, new risks and most importantly new requirements from customers are all shaping a very different set of opportunities and challenges for the energy sector.

Achieving transformation to a clean, secure and affordable energy system requires integrating and optimizing solutions and innovations in a rapidly changing environment, and consideration of physical, digital and markets — a whole systems approach.

Without due consideration of all factors, innovation opportunities will be lost, the transformation likely to be excessively costly, uncoordinated and face security and stability concerns.

The shared learning we can gain from addressing these challenges in the different…

There is a major opportunity for community batteries to make this green energy technology more accessible to everyone.

Currently 1 in 60 Australians homes has a household battery, but there is a major opportunity for community batteries to make this green energy technology more accessible to everyone.

DevelopmentWA’s East Village project in Fremantle, Western Australia is an example and further evidence of this battery technology being incorporated for the benefit of the surrounding community.

In this project, townhouses and units will utilize this 670 kWh shared battery to reduce their power bills.

“They will be supplying their own electricity…

To wish a Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day, Power Ledger’s co-founder John Bulich is going to give away a free crypto brought pizza to the person who leaves the wittiest comment on his post!

Follow him @John_Bulich on Twitter and leave a comment here!

To celebrate Power Ledger’s 5 year journey, we take a look back our key achievements from May 2016 to May 2021. Also, we’ll add new merchandise and home products to our Power Ledger store shortly.

2016

1. Founded on May 20, 2016
   - Power Ledger was founded on May 20, 2016
2. National Lifestyle Villages — WA, Australia
   - First Australian blockchain-based P2P energy trading trial with National Lifestyle Villages
3. Vector Limited — New Zealand
   - First international platform deployment with Vector Limited in New Zealand

2017