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Sunchain

Sunchain provides blockchain-based solutions to energy project developers and utilities for energy exchanges management. First use case: collective or distributed self-consumption. Sunchain manages local power exchanges within energy communities, gathering producers, consumers and prosumers.

Main sectors: Energy, Climate & Environment

Main applications: Public Utilities; General Infrastructure

Established in: 2016

URL: https://www.sunchain.fr/

 

Organisation: Sunchain SAS

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – Startup

Founders: André Joffre, Co-founder; Christophe Courtois, Co-Founder; Caroline Plaza, Co-Founder

Partners: Enedis

Country: France

City: Perpignan

Stage of project: Pilot

Geographical reach: Local

DLT / Blockchain: Private – Hyperledger

Other technologies: IoT / Smart Appliances / Wearables

 

Whitepaper: N/A

Github: N/A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SunChain_fr

 

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.