WISE Public Lecture Series: Post-Net Metering for a Sustainable City

Friday, May 19, 2017 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Dr. Matthew Peloso, CEO and Founder of Sun Electric Pte. Ltd., Singapore

Abstract

Blockchain has revolutionized the way we think of transactions, leading to the dramatic rise of FinTech industries applicable to everything from shipping to bill payment. Bitcoin, the infamous launch of currencies encoded in cryptographic codes, still trades and has shown the world that the impact of information technologies on transactions are here to stay. Meanwhile, sustainable energy is shifting our world from a utility model with centralized generation of power to a distributed model for energy where our power networks harvest electricity scattered across the energy grid.

In this presentation, Dr. Peloso will discuss how financial technologies can revolutionize the renewable energy industry. He will also demonstrate a new "post-net-metering" protocol to support the certification of clean power and a live transactional system for authenticating electricity transactions over Singapore's world-class electricity network.