TEPCO Joins Global Energy Blockchain Initiative - Energy Web Foundation
2017年5月10日 - 10:51PM
JCN Newswire
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. announced today that
it has joined forces with Centrica plc, Elia, Engie, Royal Dutch
Shell plc, Sempra Energy, SP Group, Statoil ASA, Stedin, and TWL
(Technical Works Ludwigshafen AG) to support the Energy Web
Foundation (EWF), a non-profit organization whose mission is to
accelerate the commercial deployment of blockchain technology in
the energy sector. This support provides EWF with a first round of
funding amounting to $2.5 million.
EWF is a partnership between the Rocky Mountain Institute, an
independent, U.S.-based nonprofit organization focused on driving
the efficient and restorative use of resources, and Grid
Singularity, a blockchain technology developer specializing in
energy sector applications.
Blockchain technology can be used to reduce the cost of utility
bills or the need for working capital in wholesale market gas or
electricity transactions. It also has the potential to play a
game-changing role in the energy sector by allowing millions of
energy devices (HVAC systems, water heaters, electric vehicles,
batteries, solar PV installations) to transact with each other at
the distribution edge while supporting utilities and grid operators
to integrate renewable energy capacity at a much lower cost.
"Distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar, wind, and
electric vehicles are a growing trend in Japan as well as the rest
of the world," said Hirokazu Yamaguchi, Executive General Manager,
Global Innovation & Investments at TEPCO. "We believe that
blockchain technology has the potential to play a significant and
critical role in the transition to a more secure, resilient,
cost-effective, and low-carbon distributed energy paradigm, and
that joining EWF will help us to offer new and improved services to
TEPCO customers."
EWF is developing an open-source IT infrastructure and aiming to
push the most promising use cases into proof of concepts and
commercial applications, while incubating an ecosystem of
application developers, and cooperating with regulators and
standardization bodies to facilitate deployment. EWF is soliciting
collaboration with other technology providers eager to support the
open-source approach of eliminating energy market entry
barriers.
More information on EWF can be found at:
www.rmi.org/about/news-and-press/press-release-energy-web-foundation-launch/
About Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TSE:9501),
headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is the largest utility in Japan
serving more than 29 million homes and businesses. Worldwide the
company has more than 74 subsidiaries and affiliates in 8 countries
and employs approximately 33,850 people. Operating Revenues for the
fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, totaled 5.4 trillion Japanese
yen. The company was established in 1951 and is listed on the First
Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For more information, visit
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/corpinfo/index-e.html
About Rocky Mountain Institute
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) - an independent nonprofit founded
in 1982- transforms global energy use to create a clean,
prosperous, and secure low-carbon future. It engages businesses,
communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the
adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from
fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. RMI has offices in
Basalt and Boulder, Colorado; New York City; Washington, D.C.; and
Beijing.
Source: TEPCO
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