Blockchains offer a lot of opportunities for efficiency and decentralized management in energy systems. Researchers now show the electricity dispatch is a useful problem uniquely suited to serve as proof of work in a new consensus mechanism for decentralized grid management.
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Mahmoud, M.N. Putting proof of work to work. Nat Energy 7, 474–475 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01034-5
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