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The Eloncity model builds upon the premise of using local renewable energy to fulfil local demands

Renewable generation technologies of Eloncity Model include solar PV, windmills plus other generation technologies optimized for local renewable resources and suitable for deployment in the target community. Eloncity Model is structured to unlock more than quantitative benefits through a decentralized energy system. The vision of Eloncity is also grounded in an energy future that is more equitable and poised for universal replication because of its intended qualitative and societal benefits. Beyond the metrics of a more efficient energy system, the decentralized energy system of the Eloncity Model is designed specifically to advance the environmental, social and cultural values of its stakeholders.
The service radius of an Eloncity microgrid will be optimized around the one-mile service radius

The flexibility of changing AC voltage levels allows the AC power to be transmitted through power lines efficiently at high-voltage low-current to minimize energy loss due to the resistance of long transmission wires. Near the load centers such as cities or neighbourhoods, the high voltage AC is stepped down to a lower, safer, voltage for use. However, AC was the only feasible format for transporting electricity over long- distance when the transformer was the only option to alter the voltage 130 years ago. There are numerous disadvantages of the AC grids such as the required costly ancillary services to ensure the quality of delivered AC power, power losses in the T&D wires, vulnerabilities of the large T&D network sprawling over vast areas. The required ancillary services, T&D losses, outages due to grid failures, cost utilities and the world economies hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Unfortunately, the ratepayers bear the cost of the inefficient AC grids. With the advances in power electronics, DC/DC converters are used to change the DC voltage at significantly higher conversion efficiency, typically greater than 98 per cent. The DC networks allow load sites to tie into the networks much more efficient as long as interface voltages are the same. DC power does not require the complex and costly frequency and phase synchronization. BESS deployed in the Eloncity microgrids acts as the spinning reserve to maintain the required DC voltage levels with the advantages of significantly faster response in term of seconds versus minutes of the traditional fossil fuel peaker generators of the centralized AC grids. The granular power flows management of a microgrid offers superior delivered power quality as compare to existing centralized AC grids or other AC microgrids. The size of a DC network is also a critical factor for the quality of the power delivered. The power flows in Eloncity microgrids are managed by DCbuses Scheduler deployed throughout the microgrid service areas. Each customer site is connected to the endpoints on the DCbus, where these endpoints function as DC/DC converters and voltage regulator. The endpoints maintain high power quality levels for each customer site. When the endpoints detect excessive intermittent loads or power exports from customer sites, the endpoints would temporarily disconnect the deviated customer site from the local system, thus mitigating intermittencies propagating through the microgrid. The granular power flows management of an Eloncity microgrid offers superior delivered power quality as compare to existing centralized AC grids or other AC microgrids. The size of a DC network is also a critical factor for the quality of the power delivered. The service radius of an Eloncity microgrid will be optimized around the one-mile service radius. Since all renewable energy is produced natively in DC, therefore a microgrid based on DC power architecture would more be efficient and able to provide higher quality delivered power as compare to an equivalent AC microgrid or the centralized AC grid. However, the Eloncity Model can be easily optimized for existing built environment with existing AC grid infrastructure.
Evolving Beyond the Model of Self-Sufficient Homes to Empowering an “Off-the-Grid” Village

AI grid is really going to be the future of energy. It’s a very exciting time for sure with energy sharing, and San Juanico in Baja is a wonderful place to pilot this program.” The AI grid that John is referring to is the Eloncity Model, a model based on a decentralized and community-driven approach to empower the San Juanico community to trade locally-produced renewable energy among community members. The Eloncity Model includes several key features: (a) a blockchain technology platform that provides an opened, secured, and distributed ledger for the efficient recording of energy transactions and sources of electricity generation in the community; (b) crypto utility token (Eloncity Token or ECT) that facilitates local energy exchanges and incentivizes investment in battery energy storage system (BESS) for storing freshly produced renewable energy, as well as supporting an open global marketplace that enables communities around the world to access advanced renewable energy products and services; © a smart- networked BESS that harmonizes local electricity supply and demand and flattens intermittent renewable generations into predictable, reliable, and dispatchable energy resources; (d) customer- sited and community-based renewable energy generators, coupled with intelligent networked BESS, fulfill all or nearly all the local energy demands; (e) Community DC switching power network(s) eliminates the congestion on the last-mile networks and allow energy to flow from any party (or parties) to any other parties.

Eloncity Model with San Juanico’s underlying philosophy of collaboration and community growth, San Juanico is on its way to becoming a shining example of a community-based approach to modern energy infrastructure and development. The Eloncity Model, in line with San Juanico’s community values, embraces energy progress beyond just self-sufficiency and off-the-grid independence. The Eloncity Model seeks to standardize the process to empower the community transition towards a shared renewable energy economy. Eloncity aims to empower local energy consumer networks that share, and exchange locally-produced renewable energy to overcome structural, geographical, and economic barriers and to also enable sustained community development and well-being.
Eloncity Decentralized Energy Architecture -

The Foundation proposes all newly constructed buildings to be powered by DC so that local renewable resources can power our devices and appliances efficiently and eliminate wasteful AC-DC-AC conversions. The Foundation will collaborate with manufacturers, standard bodies, customer advocate groups, and other stakeholder groups to introduce the universal plugs and sockets for 200Vdc so that, everywhere we go, we will be plugged into much more energy efficient energy infrastructure. This approach is consistent with advanced energy policies in key markets, such as California, to make energy efficiency as the first loading order in term of energy procurements and system planning. The envisioned new DC plugs and sockets, called the 200VDC Connectors will have a built-in safety mechanism to eliminate hazard such as electric arcing
The ETCP specifies the algorithms and rules for an Eloncity microgrid operation

The ECTP specifies the algorithms and rules for an Eloncity microgrid operation. To implement this protocol, they will need software and hardware to conform to ECTP specifications. An ECTP-compliant microgrid operation consists of the following elements:
• Core ECTP core energy exchange platform based on high-performance blockchain network. The Eloncity blockchain will be an enhanced Ethereum blockchain technology that has been optimized for the high-volume high-speed energy transaction.
• Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) is a high-performance consensus mechanism for processing energy transaction. The public validators selected by the community will ensure the security and integrity of transactions, including execution of smart energy contracts. Eloncity’s blockchain will support over 10,000 transactions per second or 1.8 million concurrent energy exchanges at the three-minutes interval.
• A versatile and optimized smart contract platform to support energy-exchange contracts amongst community members, compute real-time equilibrium energy prices for a given location on an Eloncity microgrid and conduct agreed energy exchange.
• A “mining” mechanism to award ECT tokens to customers who use ECTP-compliant BESS for storing newly harvested renewable energy. The mining functions are written as long-running smart business contracts compatible with the CyberMiles virtual machine.
• Universal Open Chain Access Protocol layer to support applications based on any blockchain platforms such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. This universal application interface layer will facilitate eco- rich applications for Eloncity.
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