Blockchain-based token system to help integrate renewables into grid
summary
A blockchain-based market uses Urja token to pay LV prosumers for timed flexibility, claiming token rewards become meaningful compared with today’s “minuscule” payments and let the DSO avoid expensive grid reinforcement. The work runs microgrid simulations on a German village case study (TUM dataset) comparing scenarios with and without flexibility and shows improved balance when tokens nudge EVs and heat pumps. A real pilot by RWTH Aachen is adopted by a DSO in Rome and is now scaling to Milan and Germany.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:16What brought you to this event
- 1:19What is your thesis
- 2:49What kind of changes are you seeing
- 4:47Behavioral changes
- 7:18Microgrid
- 8:01Example
- 10:37Role of Open Source
- 12:46Digital Transformation
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