Wien Energie Gas Blockchain
Wien energie is also part of enerchain which groups 35 european utilities participating in tests to create a trading platform for electricity and gas and eventually to perform b2b trading.
Wien energie gas blockchain. Peter gönitzer general manager wien energie with the concrete use of blockchain technology bkw pursues efficiency gains in settlement and billing of increased trading volumes. Canadian blockchain startup btl announced the completion of the 12 week trial using its interbit platform which also included wien energie and eni trading shipping as participants. Announcing the news during the anon blockchain summit in vienna wien energie claimed that this blockchain based fridge will help to grow consumer interest in the. Wien energie is the largest energy provider in austria and sells approx.
At the beginning of 2017 a pilot project for gas trading was carried out together with the oil companies bp and eni the business consultant ernst young and the blockchain start up btl. Wien energie austria s largest electricity and natural gas supplier has collaborated with technology giant bosch to develop a blockchain driven refrigerator. 23 twh of electricity natural gas and district heating annually. Wien energie is actively researching the use of blockchain technology for the decentralized uncomplicated handling of transactions in the energy industry.
Perspectively we see otc trading of non standard products e g. In the viertel zwei urban development area wien energie is working with 100 residents to develop new customer solutions with the help of blockchain technology. Electronics giant bosch and austrian power supplier wien energie have come up with a blockchain refrigerator aimed to allow consumers to monitor and control electricity consumption. In an announcement on the company s website the innovation was described as a building block to turn households into active participants in the electricity market and to increase consumer interest in consumption and power generation.
Wien energie prüft teilnahme an blockchain projekten der standard juni 2017 wien energie führt ersten gashandel mit blockchain durch futurezone october 2017 bp experiments with blockchain for oil and gas trading working with eni and wien energie to run test trades alongside live systems financial times october. In 2017 wien energie carried out the world s first blockchain gas trade. Wien energie has also developed a blockchain refrigerator in cooperation with bosch. Wien energie launches the world s first blockchain fridge.