Jemma Inexperienced, cofounder and chairman of PowerLedger, describes how the corporate, which gained the 2018 Excessive Tech Problem, spearheaded by Sir Richard Branson and CES, is utilizing tokens to resolve numerous vitality issues. One is the principal-agent drawback during which the landlords of residential buildings haven’t got an incentive to put in renewables as a result of the tenants are those who would recoup the financial savings. One other is that, as extra folks set up renewables, the grid is changing into much less strong and costlier. She describes the 2 varieties of tokens PowerLedger has, how that allows peer-to-peer buying and selling but in addition entails the utilities, which pilots they’ve going now, how they’re enabling vitality asset financing and their work with carbon credit.
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Episode hyperlinks:
PowerLedger: https://www.powerledger.io
Jemma Inexperienced: https://twitter.com/msjemmagreen
PowerLedger wins the Excessive Tech Problem: https://medium.com/power-ledger/power-ledger-named-winner-in-extreme-tech-challenge-on-necker-island-423bcaa5e082
PowerLedger’s pitch at XTC: https://medium.com/power-ledger/xtc-2018-power-ledgers-final-pitch-d69b66a329c6
Australian Monetary Assessment Article that got here out after we recorded on how small PowerLedger’s uptake is to this point: https://www.afr.com/enterprise/vitality/how-to-make-and-lose-2-billion-on-blockchain-20181212-h1914w
