Protius Protocol
The Problem
Protius fixes core issues crippling renewable energy development:
- Developers struggle: High effort, low success.
- Early funding is a nightmare: Big capital needed, no guarantees, all developer risk.
- Capital access is broken: Slow, opaque, exclusive for small players.
- Operational projects stuck: Illiquid, limited ownership, missed revenue.
- Impact is too slow: Years for development, retroactive carbon credits.
- Global targets missed: Especially in emerging markets.
- Contributors ignored: No fair recognition.
Protius tackles these challenges by acting as a decentralised infrastructure protocol that brings the entire renewable energy project lifecycle on-chain. It transforms a fragmented, gated system into a programmable economy for clean energy, built on real assets, real yields, and real participation.
How We Fix It. We:
- Cut friction & costs: Automates project development with smart contracts, slashing upfront costs by nearly 20%.
- Unlock early cash: Enables risk-aligned staking. Developers get capital via milestone-based smart contracts; investors contribute and get repaid plus a premium upon financial close, letting developers keep equity (via Development Stake Tokens).
- Tokenize everything: Turns every kWh, equity, debt, and carbon credit into a programmable, tradable asset.
- Simplify finance: Issues Equity Tokens (kWp Tokens) and Debt Tokens with smart contracts handling repayments, dividends, and compliance. This means frictionless finance, potential for secondary markets, and transparent reporting.
- Automate energy sales: kWh Tokens represent clean energy units. Smart PPAs automate payments, delivery, and carbon traceability for on-chain energy settlement.
- Monetize carbon automatically: Mints carbon credits from verified kWh data, using IoT and oracles for real-time issuance, more developer revenue, and market trust.
- Align everyone, build trust: Uses programmable governance, rewards, and impact tracking. Builds a Web3 community where trust is baked into the system, not reliant on middlemen.
- Empower community: Issues non-transferable Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) for verified contributions (e.g., Developers, Builders), verifying identity, participation, voting rights, and revenue sharing. Creates a transparent, decentralized reputation system.
- Decentralize governance: You earn governance through contribution, not just capital. A dual voting system uses $PROT (capital-weighted) and SBTs (reputation-weighted), with “Guardians” having veto power to prevent centralization.
- Scale globally: Each new project strengthens the protocol, creating a flywheel effect. Its modular design supports all energy types and jurisdictions.
- Reache underserved markets: Brings renewable transactions on-chain, delivering capital, tokenized equity/debt, kWh monetization, and real-time carbon credits where they’re needed most.
Protius is a public coordination layer for renewable energy. It’s not just another token; it makes climate infrastructure composable, investable, and community-owned. This is true for all categories of Partners/Clients of the Protius Protocol, namely Investors, Project Developers and Offtakers.
Investment opportunities
Stake into the PP
Join us on the development ride and stake into the Protius Protocol’s range of projects, at various stages of development, by buying our governance utility tokens
Invest in a project & trade kWhs
Capacity:
200 KWp
Capacity:
1 MWp
Capacity:
15 MWp
Acquire kWp Tokens
Acquire our security tokens (kWpT), essentially becoming owner of a portion of a Renewable Energy plant.
Trade kWhs
Once you invest in a renewable energy project, the plant begins generating clean power and revenue. For every kWh produced a kWh token (kWhT) is generated. Protius automatically collects and distributes these earnings back to you, turning your stake in green energy into a tangible, ongoing profit stream.
Development
Produce kWh
Every kilowatt-hour produced is converted into a digital token—ensuring transparency, traceability, and easy access to real-time performance data. This innovative tokenization process bridges the gap between physical electricity production and the digital economy.
Meet Protius
Off Takers
Off-takers today want to be able to rely on secure, well funded and properly executed projects. they want to be able to purchase, and trade, kWh according to their needs. Blockchain technology, and in particular Smart-Contracts, has the potential to enhance such confidence in the renewable energy ecosystem. Through the enabling of an automatic exchange of kWhs at an agreed price, the security of immutable transactions on chain and the decentralized and transparent framework for production monitoring and validation, the web3-based Protius Protocol encourages larger communities of funders, users and developers to adopt the technology option which promotes a smoother response to the climate change issues that we are facing today. Whether utility-scale or small, off-takers find a simple platform to trade the key actor of RE: the kWh.
15% Cheaper, more trustworthy and transparently transacted renewable energy kWhs between project owners and off-takers.
Buyers for new projects, new projects for buyers, more kWhs available at cheaper tariffs.
Building focused communities (and facilitating kWh transactions from the power generated by a RE plant)
Immutable audit trail of sales and purchases
Project Developers
Blockchain technology supports the creation of decentralized energy markets where energy can be traded directly between parties. This democratization of energy trading opens new opportunities for all-scale producers and consumers to participate in the energy market, driving innovation and competition. We value the coming together of project developers and investors as the benefit will be equal, proportionately, for both. Project Developers will see the benefit of less red tape around a project, faster project execution times and a much more robust funding cycle given that most approval processes are replaced by automated, transparent and pre-agreed Smart Contracts.
Development Capital and Development Resources will be more readily available
Removal of intermediary organisations and the costly scope of work associated with them
Quicker time between kWh sale and receipt of the return
Lower transactional costs, trusted transactions
Investors
By leveraging blockchain, investors can more readily transition from focusing on specific renewable technologies to adopting a technology-agnostic stance. This flexibility allows investors to diversify their portfolios across various renewable energy technologies, fostering innovation and providing support to a broader range of projects. The blockchain’s transparent and standardized framework ensures that investments are tracked and managed efficiently, regardless of the technology involved. The Protius Protocol offers its advantages across all RE categories, from solar PV to BESS to Green Hydrogen to Wind and Biomass.
The Protius Protocol significantly improves project liquidity
Immutable audit trail of sales and purchases
Removal of transaction level risks
Creates a safer, more transparant and less fraudolent environment
De-risking RE projects
PP Community
Invest in Green Energy, Feel Good About It, Learn About Latest Technology & Earn a Reward
Protius Protocol Community: Powering Green Energy and Innovation
The Protius Protocol community is a dynamic force accelerating renewable energy development and adoption, built around several key pillars:
- Early Stage Project Development: We nurture new projects from their initial phases.
- Renewable Energy Acceleration: We fast-track green energy initiatives by streamlining project finance.
- Protocol Governance: Our contributors actively shape the Protius Protocol’s future.
- Off-Taker Club: Developers and investors connect directly with ready-to-buy off-takers, ensuring a market for projects.
- Carbon Credit Ambassadors: This group focuses on global trading of carbon credits and I-RECs, driving Net Zero goals.
- Curious Members: Newcomers, drawn by our ecosystem’s simplicity and effectiveness, often evolve into active participants across all community segments.
Team
Peter
Co-Founder and CEO
Peter has worked at the senior executive level in the Global energy transition sector for 20 years and has become a Blockchain convert having seen the need for tools to disintermediate decentralized energy technologies through a real world smart-contract application and eco-system which uses Web3 to improve the operations of energy plants. Peter has raised and deployed more than a Billion USD for projects globally.
Giorgio
Co-Founder and COO
Giorgio is the Co-Founder and COO of Protius. He is an Italian renewable energy executive who was educated in the US and lived in South Africa for 20 years. Giorgio has been involved in renewable energy since 2008 and has built and managed a pipeline of over 1GW of renewable energy projects.
Ugo Ikpeazu
Web3 Technology Advisor
Ugo is a dynamic and solution-oriented thinker interested in using technology tools to rethink socio-economic value systems and shape the future. A self-starter considered a leader and effective team player with demonstrated abilities in strategic planning, as well as relationship, and project management. He is also a Lecturer, and Research Associate at ONResearch at the EU Business School.
