Power Ledger is an interesting project, we already highlighted them in the first part of a mini Altcoin introduction series. To make it short, the project is aiming to become a peer to peer marketplace for energy trading where they connect consumers and sellers. This will help larger communities or even neighbors to leverage their extra energy, while consumers will be able to decide if they need clean or legacy energy and will be able to choose prices they can afford. Additional future features will include autonomous asset management, electric vehicle charging, carbon trading and a lot more.

Now the project announced via a medium blog post that they partnered up with Clean Energy Blockchain Network to achieve its first commercial deployment in the US at Northwestern University Evanston campus. This will mean that Northwestern University will be able to trade clean energy both on their campus and between campuses by using pre-existing meters.

“Moving beyond trials and into commercial deployment of the Power Ledger energy trading platform in a historical trading market like Chicago is a major opportunity,” stated Power Ledger Managing Director and Co-Founder David Martin in the official blog post.

The first deployment will run through four buildings and will be closely followed by the Northwestern University’s Master of Engineering Management Program. Future plans include the connection to external peers across multi-campus universities, museums and laboratories.

Energy and utilizing blockchain technology to offer automated trading for it is a new and exciting emerging market segment. Not long ago we also reported on the first electric charging station that automates buying and selling of energy with the help of IOTA’s chain.