[Blockchain Use Cases] Tokenising Green Energy: Building Renewable Energy Certificates as NFTs

​A workshop about real-world blockchain applications based on my experience. No crypto knowledge required.

​We architected and built a platform that turns every megawatt-hour of clean energy into a tradeable NFT, anchored to the hardware that produced it. The platform opens a secondary market and incentivises both green energy production and consumption at the government and enterprise level.

​The project was developed with NTU on Singapore's Semakau Island as part of the REIDS initiative in 2021.

​A full Renewable Energy Certificate system on Hyperledger Besu, using the ERC-1155 standard — smart meter to mint to trade to burn, the whole loop.

​How it works

• ​1 MWh of verified green generation = 1 certificate

• ​Climate-data oracles validate production automatically

• ​Holders trade certificates on a secondary market

• ​Burning a certificate proves green energy support — verifiable on-chain for any audit

​Who uses it

• ​Enterprises proving ESG and Scope 2 compliance to customers

• ​Governments backing green generation

• ​Individuals directly funding clean energy by buying and burning certificates

​Why permissioned EVM fits regulated energy markets — and why Ethereum standards belong in real industrial systems.

​About the Speaker

​Anton Pecherkin — blockchain researcher and Web3 founder.

• ​Published research on on-chain reputation systems

• ​Built and launched blockchain products across Eastern Europe, Singapore, and China — in energy, infrastructure, and digital platforms

• ​True hacker: 40+ hackathon wins in a single year during university