Alternative energy generation, cryptocurrency markets, Brooklyn rooftops, this story has everything.

For anyone interested in the future of contracts and markets or green energy, check out this fantastic writeup byNPR’s (and formerly Technical.ly Brooklyn’s) Gregoire Molle: “How Blockchain Helps Brooklyn Dwellers Use Neighbors’ Solar Energy.”

The piece focuses on two Brooklyn-made applications that allow neighbors who produce excess electricity from roof-mounted solar panels to sell it to each other. Currently it’s not permitted for individual citizens to sell electricity to each other, but there’s nothing in the law that says you can’t trade it for tokens on the Ethereumplatform through a smart contract. So, yeah.

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