A blockchain trading solar power system in the real world
pv-magazine | February 21, 2019
PowerLedger’s xGrid is a blockchain-based electricity trading platform that’s now being used in a Pennsylvania business park, in addition to Chicago, California, a large housing unit in Australia, plus a few more locations. The fads come and go, the big ideas rise and fall. It is the nature of our evolution, and how we’re evolving the world around us in time with our resource needs. And for a year or two anything blockchain based made popular by Bitcoin was just hot, hot, hot. That is, until the press releases and initial coin offerings slowed, and there still weren’t projects in the ground. And this isn’t blockchain’s fault, its the nature of early adopter Peak of Inflated Expectations.