As reported by Coindesk, Japan's third -
largest electricity provider Chubu Electric Power Co. is currently exploring ways to make Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network and is working on developing a protocol promising to cut costs for transactions.
In an exclusive interview with CoinDesk, Japan's third -
largest electricity provider, Chubu Electric Power Co. revealed that it going to be one of the first big companies across the globe to try out a new bitcoin payments technology.
For many years coal was the second
largest electricity provider in Illinois, with ample coal reserves in Southern Illinois, but as a fossil fuel which emits CO2, coal is now the whipping boy of the environments and those who believes that renewable energy sources can replace fossil fuels.
Not exact matches
It acquired such companies as Edison Mission Energy and Alta Wind, making it one of the
largest retail
electricity providers in the U.S., and which had the added benefit of coming with over half a million new customers.
We need a new grid, a smart grid, an
electricity Internet that is capable of intelligently integrating diverse, centralized and distributed,
large and small, baseload and intermittent
electricity consumers and
providers.
The first stage grants licenses to firms in the
electricity and natural gas markets, while the second stage, which is expected to start March 3, 2003, will give
large industrial users the right to choose their
electricity provider.
Aggregating groups can buy directly from
electricity providers, or they can push the savings envelope by dealing with power brokers, which buy even
larger volumes of
electricity for resale.