Blockchain has the potential to spur sustainable development through increased efficiency and reduced environmental impacts. Peter Bahorecz, chief networking officer at SunMoney Solar Group discusses the benefits of blockchain in an article on the Gulf Business website.
Top 5 benefits of investing in blockchain-based solar energy programmes
Blockchain-based solar energy investments have the unique ability to unleash a wide array of benefits for both investors and renewable energy providers.
By utilising blockchain technology, asset-backed cryptocurrency can facilitate global access to capital efficiently and securely while encouraging sustainable energy production.
With blockchain technology offering increased transparency, data integrity, efficiency and security, investors can be assured that their money is being invested in projects with tangible long-term benefits – both financially and environmentally.
With blockchain-backed solar projects leading the way towards a greener future, many are looking to blockchain as a viable option for their investments.
Let’s discuss some of the many benefits of investing in blockchain-based solar energy:
1) Blockchain ensures data integrity and protection against manipulation in solar energy investments: Blockchain transactions are immutable and secured using cryptographic algorithms which prevent the data from being modified or deleted. This ensures that all information is protected against malicious factors while also providing an audit trail of blockchain-based solar energy investments.
2) Blockchain-based solar energy investments enjoy increased system performance and efficiency: Blockchain enables faster, more secure transactions with reduced overhead costs. The technology’s distributed ledger helps to streamline administrative processes in solar energy investments, resulting in a much shorter transaction time for investors.
By utilising blockchain, renewable energy providers can reduce transaction costs, improve system performance and increase efficiency.
For example, blockchain-based solar projects can create more efficient settlement processes between project participants. Additionally, blockchain technology allows renewable energy projects to tokenise their assets into digital tokens, which can be traded on secondary markets, giving investors the ability to diversify their portfolios without having to go through lengthy investment processes.
3) Increased investor confidence leads to more money flowing into the sector: Blockchain provides additional transparency and security, making it easier for investors to trust the system.
With blockchain-based solar investments becoming increasingly popular, investors have greater confidence when investing in renewable energy projects around the world. This increased confidence leads to more money flowing into the sector, allowing renewable energy providers to scale up their projects, reach a more significant number of people and amplify the impact of their sustainable offerings.
Furthermore, these investments can also help build trust between investors, as blockchain technology records all transactions on an immutable distributed ledger that ensures data integrity and security.
4) Anyone from anywhere in the world can invest in solar energy: Blockchain technology eliminates barriers to entry, allowing anyone with internet access to participate in the global energy marketplace.
Moreover, thanks to blockchain’s distributed ledger and digital asset-backed cryptocurrency, investors can gain access to renewable energy projects regardless of their geographic location.
5) Blockchain-based solar energy programmes support sustainable energy production and reduce environmental impacts: Blockchain technology helps to reduce the environmental impacts of energy production by allowing renewable sources to compete with traditional forms of power generation on a level playing field.
By eliminating the need for costly, inefficient intermediaries, blockchain can help to lower emissions and provide clean, accessible energy solutions around the world. Moreover, by investing in such projects, investors are helping facilitate a shift towards sustainability in the use of natural resources while reducing carbon emissions significantly along the way.
Additionally, these projects have the potential to revolutionize traditional methods of electricity generation and enable the transition to a renewable-based economy that is more aware of its environmental impact.
In conclusion, blockchain-based solar energy investments provide tangible benefits that cannot be ignored.
For those considering investing in such investments, there has never been a better time to do so, as blockchain technology offers tremendous potential for the future of sustainable finance.
What’s more, is that blockchain has the potential to spur sustainable development through increased efficiency and reduced environmental impacts.
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Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 
As a judge once remarked to me about a defendants submission “confused and confusing”. Thus with this article which never gets to the specifics of what blockchain brings to renewables/PV. A given PV project has up-front capital costs, the cost of capital (WACC) and then a revenue stream. All PV projects have a fiscal meter which records electricity generated and exported. If the electricity is sold on to the wholesale market there is always a corresponding price and the fiscal meter time stamps exports. What is exported, when and at what price is known. If the project is covered by a CfD then this can also be taken into account. Distributed ledger (blockchain) brings nothing to the above system. Indeed, given that blockchain is computationally intensive (= it uses lots of electricity) one could argue that it brings little in the way of security and plenty in the way of cost. In terms of investing in renewables, there are plenty of ways to do that: buy shares in companies that own or develop renewable projects. There is no shortage of them. What does blockchain bring to this?
Perhaps this is too euro-centric a view? Maybe blockchain in Africa? But the problem there is the much higher country risk/counter party risk – something which blockchain is functionally incapable of solving. The article needs more specifics, a point which proponents of blockchain often avoid.
Thanks for this comment, Mike. You raise important points and one would think the author would have included these points.