Highlights

• Powerledger has purchased a 250kW photovoltaic (PV) system from Perdaman Advanced Energy, a subsidiary of WA-based multinational Perdaman.
• The Maddington PV system has a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and will be integrated with Powerledger’s new product, PPA Vision.
• PPA Vision is an energy data management, billing and settlement system for energy asset owners and operators to provide an immutable audit trail that prevents double billing, loss of revenue.

Maddington, Western Australia: Powerledger has purchased a 250kW photovoltaic (PV) system from Perdaman Advanced Energy, that will use a new data management and settlement system called PPA Vision.

The Maddington-based PV system will integrate Powerledger’s energy data management and settlement system through a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to provide greater visibility on renewable energy sold to a consumer.

Powerledger’s technology can be tailored to suit the needs of any energy market and build, and has a series of products to enable energy trading and facilitate renewable energy credit markets.

“Our trials with energy retailers and governments around the world have highlighted the demand for a product that enabled autonomous management and settlement of energy generation and consumption,” said Powerledger Co-founder and Executive Chairman Dr Jemma Green.

The PPA Vision is designed for co-located renewable energy assets such as rooftop solar panels as well as cross-grid PPA supply arrangements.

“Traditional metering and billing systems can be inaccurate, Powerledger’s technology prevents loss of revenue and overcharging simultaneously. Australia’s energy regulator is pushing for a new two-sided energy market, Powerledger has the technology to facilitate this transition,” said Dr Green.

Generators can customize the energy tracking and trading software to suit the regulatory requirements of governments, local councils and businesses to assist them in reaching their renewable energy targets.

“Perdaman Advanced Energy’s involvement reflects our company’s multi-pronged efforts to create a better tomorrow by delivering clean energy solutions that bring down the cost of doing business in Australia and decarbonize our economy,” said Perdaman Advanced Energy  Chairman Vikas Rambal.

For example, a business or a local council entering into PPA with a renewable energy generator can integrate directly with Powerledger’s platform, however, those PPAs operating across the network would need to partner with an energy retailer.

Powerledger is also able to integrate its technology with independent power producers, embedded network operators, asset developers and PV system owners.

The renewable energy that the Maddington asset generates will be tracked using blockchain technology to provide a verified audit trail for energy generated, energy bought from the grid, energy consumed and energy dispatched to the grid.  The robustness of blockchain technology will help eliminate any potential errors in under or over accounting for revenue.

In addition to Powerledger’s PPA Vision product, the asset will use Powerledger’s environmental attributes product to automate the issuance of large scale generation certificates and to tokenize the certificates.

The sale was finalized in January 2019, with construction of an additional 150kw completed in October. The asset is registered with Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator and was granted authority to operate by Western Power on 15 November.