PONTON helps building a Trade Repository for Ukraine
In 2020, PONTON provided advice to the Ukrainian securities commission (NSSMC) on the provision of Trade Repositories based on Ukrainian law equivalent to EMIR, MiFIR and MiFID-II.
About Michael Merz
Michael Merz is founder / managing director of PONTON. He has demonstrated his expertise in several projects related to energy trading, grid operation, market platforms and post-deal processing. At PONTON, he has been involved in the development of clearing and settlement systems (SMSS, Equias eSM), transaction reporting services (Equias eRR), infrastructures for energy trading (Enerchain, etc.), and grid management (EDA, Gridchain). Michael has also contributed to innovation projects in energy trading such as NEW 4.0, ETIBLOGG and EDDIE. He is author of several books, the most recent is titled "Blockchain for B2B Integration".
Entries by Michael Merz
CLEARING SYSTEM DESIGN FOR UEEX
/by Michael MerzPONTON designed an energy market clearing service for Ukraine and the SEEGAS region.
NEW 4.0 successfully completed
/by Michael MerzTo 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
/by Michael MerzThe Gridchain project has shown how to use an innovative balancing mechanism to mitigate congestions in local power grids.
ETIBLOGG
/by Michael MerzETIBLOGG 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
/by Michael MerzGrid-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
/by Michael MerzThis book provides an overview of the various types of blockchain variants. Pros and cons of these technologies are weighed against real-life business requirements.
Enerchain goes live
/by Michael MerzEnerchain 1.0 has been released.
How does the Tendermint BFT consensus protocol work?
/by Michael MerzMichael explains how the tendermint Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) consensus mechanism works that has been used for the Enerchain project.
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