The Deutsche Energie-Agentur, often known as DENA — the principle governmental group chargeable for power innovation in Germany — appears to be like to place its power ecosystem on a decentralized database.

DENA “has chosen Vitality Net to design and assemble a digital registry for distributed power assets (DERs) throughout the nation in partnership with greater than 20 trade gamers,” an Oct. 13 weblog submit from Vitality Net detailed, including:

“The undertaking will allow power belongings in Germany, similar to thermostats, photo voltaic PV methods, batteries, and electrical car charging stations to undertake computerized registration with a decentralized ledger of identities, permitting their utilisation by the German grid for a spread of companies similar to digital energy vegetation and frequency regulation.”

Germany’s power innovation wing, mixed with Vitality Net and quite a few blockchain and crypto corporations, basically wish to digitize the nation’s power system by storing mandatory elements on a decentralized database.

One in every of DENA’s brass, Philipp Richard, defined within the submit that the endeavor faces remaining hurdles when it comes to setting the undertaking absolutely into movement, though blockchain-based digital identities (that are at present present process testing) look favorable.