Photographer: Daniel Rodrigues/Bloomberg Clearway Energy Group, one of the U.S.’s largest clean power developers, is launching a pilot electronic marketplace for renewable energy credits as more states push for solar and wind projects. The company has partnered with Power Ledger, which develops blockchain-enabled energy trading software, to build a system to both track and trade so-called RECs, according to an emailed statement. The initial test phase will include a Massachusetts project with...

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The Winklevoss twins and a Dallas-based private equity firm are putting their money behind one way to shrink a glut of natural gas from U.S. shale basins: Burn it to produce on-site electricity. Mesa Natural Gas Solutions LLC makes mobile generators that use gas from places like the Permian Basin of West Texas to power drilling operations. It’s a portfolio company of BP Energy Partners LLC, in which oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens was an early investor...

Solar panels. Batteries. Emergency fossil fuel-fired generators. They’ve all been deployed across Puerto Rico to help get the lights back on in the months following devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria. Now it’s blockchain’s turn. Australian blockchain technology provider Power Ledger has its eyes set on the island, where power was wiped out by Irma and Maria last year. The company has hired Dante Disparte, a grid resiliency and security expert from Puerto Rico, to lead its efforts in the...