Blockchain technology is revolutionizing all industries. After the luxury sector we went to meet Barthélémy Rouer, a pioneer in renewable energies, to understand its impacts and the transformations at work. If you want to understand all about the GreenToken, this exciting interview on the trends at work in the world after is for you.

Hello Barthélémy Rouer, could you introduce yourself?

I am CEO and Founder of WPO, a Franco-European group leader of independent European platforms for asset management and services specializing in renewable energies, particularly wind and solar power.

What is the role of WPO in the energy sector?

Our mission is to optimize the production of renewable energies through a full range of technical, commercial, and financial expertise. Among these, management of production companies, supervision of production plants, organization of calls for tenders, deliverability studies, technical inspections, etc. Our portfolio of renewable assets under mandate totals more than 2,000 wind turbines and 12 million photovoltaic modules. We supervise in real time the equivalent of the electricity consumption of the population of intramural Paris through 600 production plants spread over 12 European countries and overseas (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean).

We are proud to contribute to increasing the share of renewable energies in the European energy mix.

You are the first French energy entrepreneur to launch a blockchain project, what is your goal?

We are facing climate change that upsets our environmental and societal balances. In such a context, we urgently need to accelerate the Energy Transition. However, to accelerate it, it is essential to fundamentally change the current energy sector, the organization of which is still based on the massive exploitation of centralized and carbon-based energies.

To succeed, renewable energies require moving out of centralized energy management mode. The Energy Transition must be accompanied by a Digital Transformation to adapt the energy sector to the growing share of renewable energies in the energy mix.

From this perspective, the blockchain is a very relevant tool for supporting changes in the energy sector.

The properties at the heart of this new technology, namely decentralization, transparency, traceability, and immutability, are essential to transform the European energy sector with confidence. We want to fully seize the opportunities offered by this technology to optimize the production of renewable energies and establish the energy consumption patterns of tomorrow.

This observation is the raison d'être of the GreenToken project that we are launching.

Concretely, how do you plan to set up the GreenToken project?

After exhaustive strategic thinking, we realized that the best way to deploy Blockchain technology in the energy sector was to use a public offering of GreenToken tokens. This consists of issuing a new digital asset, the GreenToken token, registered on the Ethereum Blockchain.

The acquisition of this token by energy players aims to make new business models accessible to the entire renewable energy ecosystem to accelerate the Energy Transition. Among these, the thematic means of payment of the Energy Transition, disintermediated and short-circuit electricity trading, the transparency and traceability of the Energy Transition using High Reliability certificates, as well as maintenance predictive and automation of insurance and guarantees.

In summary, the issuance of this token has two major objectives: to democratize the holding and use of GreenTokens to all professional players in the energy sector as well as to companies and individuals, and to build a new platform. European multi-service - intelligent and fluid - management and collective valuation of data-energy, based on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.