Bitcoin hit a record value of over $4,480 this month, and the cryptocurrency's steep rise is attracting copycats — one of which, SolarCoin, hopes to boost solar energy by giving people an incentive to ...

Saudi operator of power generation and water desalination plants, ACWA Power has announced it will adopt SolarCoin, the global reward system for solar power generation. ACWA said the blockchain-based ...

There has been a lot of debate across the globe around blockchain-enabled decentralised energy trading. Peer-to-peer (P2P) sale of power based on blockchain seems very promising. The first projects, ...

Just as cryptocurrency has become a disruptive technology, so has renewable energy, and although those two distinct sectors haven’t really come into their own just yet, an innovative solar incentive ...

A new cryptocurrency with a solar-powered twist could be just the incentive we need to make the shift to clean energy. While most cryptocurrencies are just themed copies of Bitcoin – Dogecoin, based ...

This month, Bitcoin hit a record value of over £3,492 - having soared over the past 12 months with one coin now exceeding the price of an ounce of gold. But while the currency involves a complicated ...

No one enjoys paying their electricity bill. It keeps going up and up, with a bunch of new nonsense fees thrown on top every few years. What’s worse is that many parts of the world still rely on dirty ...

A trip through the idyllic farmlands of Bavaria, in the south of Germany, is a testament to the enthusiasm here for solar energy, one of the many green technologies Germany is embracing as it ...