Open source blockchain for the energy industry

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- For all the talks in RethinkTrust.org 2018: https://chief.sc/rethinktrust2018-videos Background and summary of the conference by the founder, Dr. Alexy Khrabrov: https://chiefscientist.org Next Enterprise Blockchain Engineering track By the Bay: http://scale.bythebay.io ----- The talk focuses on reengineering new mechanisms of trust that would empower consumers to take control of and better use their data, choosing which type of energy they consume and how. At present, they rely on utilities to make choices for them and are not aware of options, nor do they have an option to act as an energy provider if they possess an energy resource such as a rooftop solar panel or an electric vehicle. Blockchain enables the creation of prosumers, such as homeowners who have solar or other renewable energy resources they wish to sell to others and can now do so in peer-to-peer transactions. Blockchain facilitates energy access and enhanced use of renewables, connecting the energy market in a way it has never done before. Dr. Ana Trbovich is co-founder and COO of an energy blockchain company Grid Singularity (gridsingularity.com), based in Berlin and developing an open source energy industry blockchain via Energy Web Foundation (energyweb.org). She continues to teach one course, Entrepreneurship at FEFA, a leading business school in Belgrade, Serbia. Previously, she consul…