More than 80 energy experts, coders and product designers from across Southeast Asia gathered in Bangkok today for the Smart Energy Hackathon, a 30-hour competition that aims to foster the development of new digital energy solutions such as public blockchains for the provision of PV generation data.
The participants are competing for $10,000 in prize money, in an event that aims to “transform the energy game in Southeast Asia,” according to an emailed statement. Their work will focus on a range of innovative digital energy solutions, touching on everything from big data and artificial intelligence to blockchain technology and the Internet of Things. All winnings will be distributed in the form of cryptocurrency.
The competition — co-organized by German development agency GIZ, TechGrind, CalCEF/New Energy Nexus, Chulalongkorn University Innovation Hub (CU) and Knowledge Xchange for Innovation (KX) — is designed to produce ideas that could potentially be turned into new ventures.
“Climate change is likely to be decided in Southeast Asia,” said Thomas Chrometzka, director of renewable energy for GIZ Thailand. “We are turning this challenge into an opportunity by developing an ecosystem that produces digital smart energy solutions to help overcome the climate crisis.”
Sunforson as one of the PV mounting structure, will try our best to develop new mounting type to meet various project demands for solar market.
