eChain: a Blockchain/AI-based energy trading platform to disrupt energy market

UrbanChain的目标是通过利用区块链/人工智能技术来整合能源、交通和健康等公用事业领域的服务，从而开发出世界领先的产品和服务。我们的目标是改变这些市场，使其结构民主化，并优化和整合服务，以降低最终用户的成本。我们将首先关注存在有争议的市场失灵的能源部门，如能源贫困和缺乏竞争的可再生能源市场。2015年，11%的英国家庭无法为家提供足够的温暖(BEIS 2018)，家庭欠能源公司的债务已达10亿GB(e-Ofgem 2017)。此外，治疗寒舍对健康的影响每年估计要花费NHS 13.6亿GB(Age UK 2016)。此外，尽管小型发电机贡献了25%的能源生产，但它们只能接触到5%的消费者。现在企业需要大幅降低最终用户的能源成本，并将可再生能源发电机引入主流市场。我们的创新平台解决了上述问题，因为它直接将能源消费者与可再生能源发电机联系起来，并在10分钟内自动将消费者的日常能源消耗切换到最好的电价。我们平台的其他创新功能是，它实时自动计费，并通过我们的集成人工智能算法优化需求和供应管理。此外，我们的平台为可再生能源发电商提供了一个竞争激烈的能源市场，直接将其能源出售给消费者。我们将使可再生能源发电机进入主流市场，并为最终用户提供能源服务。Innovate UK后续基金将用于进行上市前试验，随后在第二阶段将我们的技术商业化。我们将在这个项目结束前将我们的产品直接提供给最终用户，包括家庭和中小企业。此外，我们愿意向地方当局和社会住房网站管理者提供许可证，以受益于我们产品的一些功能。私人物业管理公司亦可使用我们的平台进行能源交易，并在自己的网站管理能源交易。在项目期间，我们将不断发布适合不同受众的调查结果，并将我们的活动告知Ofgem和其他与政府相关的机构，如BEIS和Energy System Catapult。我们这个项目的最终目标是通过消除中间商来提高英国的生产率。

"UrbanChain aims to develop world-leading products and services by using blockchain/AI technologies to integrate services in utility sectors, such as energy, transportation and health. We aim to transform these markets, democratise their structure, and optimise and integrate services to reduce the costs for end users. We will initially focus on the energy sector where there are controversial market failures such as energy poverty, and non-competitive renewable energy market.In 2015, 11% of English households were not able to keep their homes adequately warm (BEIS 2018), and the debts of the households to energy companies has reached £1billion (e-Ofgem 2017). In addition, treating the health impacts of cold homes is costing the NHS an estimated £1.36 billion each year (Age UK 2016). Furthermore, despite small-scale generators contribute to 25% of energy production, they only have access to 5% of consumers. There is now a business need to significantly reduce energy costs for end users and bring renewable energy generators into the mainstream market.Our innovative platform solves the above problems as it directly links energy consumers to the renewable energy generators, and automatically switches the consumer's daily energy consumption to the best tariffs available within 10 minutes. The other innovative features of our platform are that it automates billing in real time and optimises demand and supply management with our integrated AI algorithms. Furthermore, our platform provides a competitive energy market for renewable energy generators to directly sell their energy to consumers. We will enable renewable energy generators to come to the mainstream market and provide energy as a service to end users.The Innovate UK follow up fund will be used to conduct a premarket trail followed by commercialisation of our technology in the second phase. We will offer our product directly to end users, including households and SMEs, by the end of this project. Furthermore, we are willing to provide licenses to local authorities and social housing site managers to benefit from some features of our product. Private property managers will also be able to subscribe to our platform to trade energy and manage their energy trading at their own sites.During the project, we will constantly publish our findings suitable for various audiences, and will inform Ofgem and other government-related bodies such as BEIS and Energy System Catapult about our activities. Our ultimate aim from this project is to increase the UK's productivity by eliminating the middlemen."