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.
PONTON E-World News 2022
/by Michael MerzAfter two years it is about time for us to meet at e-World in Essen again, in person at last. The event has been moved to 21 to 23 June, 2022.
EDA protocol switch accomplished within a few hours
/by Thomas BorschaOn May 20, the Austrian energy sector migrated their data exchange infrastructure (“EDA” for Energy Data exchange Austria) within 4 hours to the new AS4 standard.
Trading Platforms for digitalised Commodities
/by Michael MerzThis paper presents PONTON’s software deverlopments for the trading of non-standard commodities such as ball bearings or flexible electricity.
PONTON helps building a Trade Repository for Ukraine
/by Michael MerzIn 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.
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.
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.