The first time we heard the word “blockchain” at an energy conference, it was just ignored. Not because people did not know what it meant, but because attendees felt bored with the suggestion that it could solve almost all energy management issues. It is a very compelling solution to one problem, and one problem only – when the world needs a ledger that cannot be tampered with or in any way altered, and which can be shared among a large number of market constituents. In its purest form it is a type of distributed database, which for over 40 years has been a solution looking for a problem. The fact that as a concept it was first put together as…