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日本电力公司Kansai Electric Power Co.，Inc。（KEPCO） – 在日本第二大工业区运营，整合了京都，神户和大阪等城市 – 正在测试区块链平台，以确定电力消费者和光伏系统所有者如何交易剩余电力。
在与东京大学，日本软件开发商Nihon Unisys和三菱UFJ银行有限公司的研究项目中，KEPCO将利用区块链技术获取电力消费者和潜在消费者之间交易的知识和经验 – 发电机消耗自己的能量和生成一个盈余的一部分——可以进行,因此成为能够确定盈余太阳能发电设施的价格。
KEPCO表示，使用区块链技术进行模拟交易将有助于了解专业消费者如何为多个消费者提供电力，并确定可以进行交易的价格。
进化还是革命？
在项目中，Nihon Unisys将开发平台，关西电气将在测试中心实施试点项目，东京大学将评估和总结数据。三菱UFJ银行于5月宣布开发新的区块链服务，将建议将区块链技术应用于交易的实现。
近几个月，涉及太阳能和区块链的试点项目数量呈指数增长。世界能源理事会与普华永道审计师合作，最近采访了39位顶级管理能源领导者，以确定区块链是否正在推动能源生态系统的演变或革命。
受访者一致认为，虽然区块链在众多能源组织的创新领域做出了巨大努力，但要实现其全部经济和技术潜力，还有很多工作要做。
摘自pv magazine原文如下：
Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO) – which operates in Japan’s second-largest industrial region, incorporating the cities of Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka – is testing a blockchain platform to determine how power consumers and PV system owners can trade surplus electricity.
In a research project with the University of Tokyo, Japanese software developer Nihon Unisys, and Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Ltd., KEPCO will use blockchain tech to acquire knowledge and experience of how transactions between power consumers and prosumers – generators who consume a portion of their own energy and generate a surplus – could be conducted, thus becoming able to determine the price of surplus electricity from solar installations.
Simulated transactions with blockchain technology will help it understand how prosumers can deliver power to multiple consumers, and determine at what prices the trade can be conducted, KEPCO said.
Evolution or revolution?
In the project, Nihon Unisys will develop the platform, Kansai Electric will implement the pilot project at a testing center, and the University of Tokyo will evaluate and summarize data. Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, which announced in May the development of a new blockchain service, will advise on applying the blockchain technology to the realization of transactions.
The number of pilot projects involving solar and blockchain has increased exponentially in recent months. The World Energy Council, in partnership with auditors PwC, recently interviewed 39 top level management energy leaders to ascertain whether blockchain is driving an evolution or revolution in the energy ecosystem.
Respondents agreed, while blockchain has spurred great efforts in the innovation space from numerous energy organizations, much has to be done to realize its full economic and technological potential.
