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New energy in app form

Digital technology and PV: Blockchain is the name for a secure, distributed database that forms the basis of the bitcoin digital currency. Now there is much hype over blockchain’s potential application in the energy industry. Grid singularity is a startup developing the next generation of a blockchain that could genuinely revolutionize the energy system. It reconciles data usage with privacy.

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Michael Fuhs

15 Mar 2017

Grid Singularity

“I’ll briefly introduce myself,” says Ewald Hesse in response to the question of how he was introduced to block chain. “I am Russian German, and my parents escaped communism when I was ten.” He studied mechanical engineering in Germany and Hong Kong and has long been active in the energy sector.As founder of the Vienna …

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