While the trial showed that solar energy trading made its participants worse off financial as the local australian electricity provider charged a fixed rate the blockchain based trading platform.
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An australian government backed trial of peer to peer p2p solar trading has demonstrated the potential of localized two sided energy markets and blockchain technology to improve the energy system.
However in p2p trading everyone from a 1 5kw solar system homeowner or the biggest coal fired power plant can engage in peer to peer solar energy depending on which software or technology is used to participate in the market e g.
Grid trading works by connecting customers solar energy storage batteries in a decentralised network like a peer to peer network but for clean renewable energy.
However current electricity tariff structures would need to be modified to realize the full stack of values that this technology has to offer.
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