BALANCE
THE GRID
How might we incentivize consumers to communicate energy demand and production to allow all stakeholders to balance the grid?
APPLICATIONS OPEN
January 20
ODYSSEY CONNECT
February 4-5
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
February 24
WORKSHOPS
March 3 – 10
HACKATHON
April 3 – 5
ODYSSEY IGNITE
May 11 – 15
APPLICATIONS OPEN
January 20
ODYSSEY CONNECT
February 4-5
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
February 24
WORKSHOPS
March 3 – 10
HACKATHON
April 3 – 5
ODYSSEY IGNITE
May 11 – 15
THE CHALLENGE
Enable the entire energy sector to transition from an ego-system to an eco-system, where everyone and anything is incentivized to share demand AND production of green power. You will co-create the fast and energy efficient digital power market commons by developing a protocol communication layer to power an awesome fossil-free future within one generation.
CONTEXT
The power system is becoming increasingly more decentralized and complex, with an increasing number of prosumers (customers using solar PV), microtransactions and a renewable energy mix, all while the electricity demand is rising due to the electrification of transport and industry. Balancing the grid is and will be more and more difficult, expensive and risky, and current balance solutions only include big industry players. In the future, customers will have to help stabilize the power system.
The energy sector is striving to make the best of these developments, but so far the sector remains fragmented with a large number of initiatives and pilots spread over start-ups, scale-ups, countries, DSOs, TSOs, utilities, and regulators.
IMPACT
The power grid is one of the most sophisticated infrastructures ever built. By building the energy ecosystem on a digital protocol layer, the network will become fit for a fossil-free future and will prevent major and costly physical grid investments that will impact the grid and its customers. It will make the power system more robust and transparent, enabling anyone to build an infinite amount of business cases on top of your solution.
A WINNING TEAM WILL...
Show its potential by leveraging its token engineering and knowledge of market mechanisms.
Show its creativity by coming up with a radical new way of supporting the creation of a digital power commons.
Build a solution that can handle several thousand of secure transactions per second.
Key element
Interconnected and inclusive.
ECOSYSTEM
Vattenfall
SolarEdge
WHAT HAPPENS
WITH THE WINNER
Vattenfall is committed to supporting the winning team in the future development of their product if their solution is relevant to Vattenfall’s business strategy. The support will depend on the team’s needs and ambitions as well as the strategic fit for Vattenfall.
THIS CHALLENGE CONTRIBUTES TO SOLVING:
7.2 The solution will be contributing to the substantial share of renewable energy in the global mix.
9.4 The solution will contribute to the upgrade of infrastructure & retrofit industries to make them more sustainable.
ELIGIBLE TEAMS
STARTUPS
ESTABLISHED STARTUPS
SCALE-UPS
SMES
CORPORATE TEAMS
TEAM QUALITIES
Technically strong teams, with sufficient knowledge of market mechanisms and token engineering expertise. The team would benefit from knowledge/experience in the energy market.
REQUIREMENTS
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