To begin the 2020’s the largest energy producers and consumers in the world came together and ambitiously pledged to achieve 24/7 zero carbon emission by the end of the decade. Now 4 years later, solutions ranging from virtual power plants and microgrids, to hydrogen hubs and granular energy matching have emerged to answer the call. While promising to deliver on sustainability goals, these solutions also promise to deliver a new grid architecture that will drives innovation and connectivity to the grid edges.

A MetaWatt is a tokenized watt of energy that carries with it information about its location of origin, time of creation, type of generation, location of storage, type of storage, etc. Any metadata that is valuable for the management, automation and utilization of energy assets can be time-stamped, bundled, split and traded peer-to-peer across the Bitcoin ledger as a MetaWatt.