SolarCoin’s vision is to incentivize a solar-powered planet. Rewards drive action. SolarCoin helps build a foundation the global energy transition by rewarding solar producers with an energy-referenced currency. The goal is to incentivize solar electricity by rewarding the generators of solar electricity to reduce the cost of electricity production.

Main sectors: Energy, Climate & Environment

Main applications: Digital Tokens; Research/Standards;
Data Marketplace/Data monetization

Established in: 2014

URL: http://solarcoin.org/

Organisation: Solarcoin Foundation

Organisation type: Organizations (not companies) – Foundation

Founders: Christopher Altman; Francois Sonnet; Joe Zitoli; Nick Gogerty

Partners: Alesia Communications, ElectriCChain, My Solar Pay, PV Magazine,Magnefico LLC (CH), SolarLux, Solar Value (IT), Solarview, Solcrypto (UK, IR), Sollab, Solo Energy, Titan Eco (UK), The White House Solar

Country: USA

City: Greenwich

Stage of project: Live

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – New

Other technologies: Other/s

Whitepaper: https://solarcoin.org/wp-content/uploads/SolarCoin_Policy_Paper_EN-1.pdf

Github: https://github.com/solarcoin

Twitter: https://twitter.com/solarcoin_slr

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.