Plans have been created by furniture giant Ikea’s innovation lab Space 10 to develop a blockchain-powered solar microgrid concept, dubbed SolarVille, is currently at the modelling stage, with a wooden village prototype highlighting how a microgrid would enable people to sell excess energy to others on a blockchain-powered system. All of the buildings within the village are hardwired together to create the microgrid for energy sharing in what the lab claims is a fully scalable model.
Edie 11th March 2019 read more »
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