Entries by Michael Merz

NEW 4.0 successfully completed

To increasingly use renewable energies, PONTON has developed a platform for coordinating local flexibilities – the Energy Platform (in German: “Energieplattform”). Flexibility is traded here as the ability of producers or consumers of power to adjust their production or consumption to help mitigate grid congestions.

Gridchain

The Gridchain project has shown how to use an innovative balancing mechanism to mitigate congestions in local power grids.

ETIBLOGG

ETIBLOGG supports local energy communities in their real-time trading of short-tern deliveries. This way, producers can sell their excess energy and buyers can use it based on a local price mechanism.

Active Distribution Grid Management

Grid-supportive flexibility is a solution to mitigate such congestions. In order to roll-out a standardized process for congestion management, Austrian DSOs conducted the project Active Distribution Grid Management in early 2020.

Michael’s Blockchain Book

This book provides an overview of the various types of blockchain variants. Pros and cons of these technologies are weighed against real-life business requirements.