I heard a talk just today on this by Dr Dan McGillivray (Exec. Director of the Centre for Urban Energy @ Ryerson University, Toronto) at AI Toronto [0] who ment

I heard a talk just today on this by Dr Dan McGillivray (Exec. Director of the Centre for Urban Energy @ Ryerson University, Toronto) at AI Toronto [0] who mentioned two projects, utilizing a mix of central power generation, decentralized power generation (via solar panels, etc), and the blockchain for transactions: * the currently running Brooklyn Microgrid [1] * and Toronto Hydro is apparently currently assessing a similar one (the blockchain isn't mentioned in this summary, but Dr McGillivray mentioned its usage in his talk today) [2][3] There is still so much to be worked out, I could hardly digest all of the details he spoke about. It does sound promising, though! [0] http://www.ai-toronto.com/ http://www.ai-toronto.com/ [1] http://brooklynmicrogrid.com/ http://brooklynmicrogrid.com/ [2] https://www.sdtc.ca/en/portfolio/projects/transactive-energy-network-clean-generation-energy-storage-electric-vehicle https://www.sdtc.ca/en/portfolio/projects/transactive-energy... [3] http://awsassets.wwf.ca/downloads/wwf_dg_report_long_bookmarks_1.pdf http://awsassets.wwf.ca/downloads/wwf_dg_report_long_bookmar...