Chile is Putting its Energy Data on Ethereum's Blockchain

On April 5th, the Chilean National Energy Commission announced that it had launched the nation's first blockchain project.

Originally teasing the project in February 2018, the commision said it wants to integrate average market prices, marginal costs, fuel prices, and compliance with the renewable energy law directly onto the blockchain.

In February, Chile announced that they were looking to improve the security of energy data by utilizing blockchain technology.

Chile is among many countries experiencing problems with their energy data storage; the current system allows room for accounting errors, not all of which are honest mistakes.

They hope to combat this with blockchain technology allowing them to certify that the information they provide in the open data portal has not been altered or modified and they will be left with an unalterable record of its existence.

"The National Energy Commission has decided to join this innovative technology and we have decided to use blockchain as a digital notary, which will allow us to certify that the information we provide in the open data portal has not been altered or modified and left an unalterable record of its existence,".

The pilot project is aimed at boosting the transparency, accuracy, and security of data relating to the nation's energy sector.

The trial will require the CNE employees taking datasets from an existing energy data platform called Energía Abierta, or Open Energy.

After the software has been used to verify the data accuracy, the data will be hashed and then recorded using Ethereums blockchain.

The human element in the process means that the data is still vulnerable to human error.