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Protius Protocol

The Problem

Protius addresses several systemic inefficiencies and bottlenecks within the current renewable energy project development landscape, which prevent the urgent clean energy transition from scaling effectively, namely:

• Low Return on Effort for Developers: Many renewable projects fail to progress beyond early-stage development due to systemic inefficiencies in their conception, funding, and delivery.

•Early-Stage Funding Bottlenecks: Projects require substantial capital (often $500,000–$1 million per project) before being considered “bankable,” with no guarantee of success. Developers bear all this risk, leading to undercapitalisation, project abandonment, and a geographic bias towards mature markets.

•Fragmented Access to Capital: Developers must cobble together funds from siloed sources, a process that is slow (18–36 months), opaque, and exclusive, often excluding small-scale and community-led developers from institutional capital.

•Inefficient Monetisation and Ownership Models: Even operational renewable projects typically lack liquidity, are held by relatively few institutional owners, miss out on flexible revenue from energy sales and carbon credits, and offer limited transparency or inclusion to local stakeholders.

•Impact Delays: Long development cycles, typically 4–7 years, delay emissions savings. Carbon market participation is often retroactive and lacks automation.

•Lagging Global Deployment: The world is tracking towards only 8,000 GW of renewable deployment by 2030, significantly short of the 11,000 GW target. Emerging markets, despite their high-impact potential, are particularly underserved.
 
•Lack of Recognition for Contributors: Current systems often don’t fairly recognise or reward those who contribute to the ecosystem.

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.

Here’s how Protius addresses these problems specifically:
 
•Reducing Friction and Cost: Protius encodes project development into smart contracts, significantly reducing friction and costs. This automation helps lower upfront costs by close to 20%, improving project bankability.
 
•Unlocking Early-Stage Capital: It enables risk-aligned staking and delivers a verifiable return to those who help projects reach financial close. Early-stage development capital is unlocked through decentralised staking mechanisms, where developers stake capital in milestone-based smart contracts, and strategic and community investors contribute. Upon financial close, stakers are repaid plus a share of the developer premium, allowing developers to maintain equity. This is facilitated by Development Stake Tokens (DST).
 
•Tokenising Assets and Outcomes: Protius turns every kWh generated into a programmable financial and energy asset. It tokenises assets and outcomes such as kWh, equity, debt, and carbon credits, providing transparent and tradable access.
 
•Tokenising Equity & Debt: Equity and debt tranches are issued as Equity Tokens (kWp Tokens) and Debt Tokens, with smart contracts enforcing repayment, dividends, and compliance milestones. This creates frictionless finance structuring, potential for secondary markets, and transparent ownership and performance reporting.
 
•Tokenising Energy Sales via Smart PPAs: kWh Tokens represent every unit of clean energy, while Smart PPAs automate payment, delivery, and carbon traceability, allowing for on-chain energy settlement and transparent pricing.
 
•Automating Carbon Monetisation: Carbon credits are minted automatically from verified kWh generation data, with Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) powered by IoT sensors and oracles. This ensures real-time issuance, higher revenue for developers, and increased trust and transparency in the carbon market.
 
•Aligning Stakeholders and Building Trust: Protius aligns stakeholders through programmable governance, rewards, and impact tracking. It builds a Web3 community where trust is built into the system itself, rather than relying on intermediaries.
 
•Community Participation via Soulbound Tokens (SBTs): Non-transferable SBTs are issued for verified actions and contributions (e.g. Developers, Builders, Guardians, Ambassadors, Carbon Contributors), representing identity, verifying participation, and unlocking rights like voting and revenue sharing. This builds a decentralised, transparent reputation system and ties real contribution to governance, fostering a long-term, trusted ecosystem.
 
•Decentralising Governance: Governance is earned through contribution, not capital alone.  Protius implements a dual voting system using $PROT (capital-weighted) and SBTs (reputation-weighted), with Guardians having veto power on critical proposals, to prevent centralisation and ensure decision-making power follows contribution.
 
•Scalability: Every project onboarded increases the protocol’s strength, creating a flywheel of capital, reputation, and clean energy. Protius’s modular architecture supports multiple energy types, jurisdictions, and revenue structures while maintaining transparency and accountability.
 
•Global Reach: By bringing renewable transactions on-chain, Protius directly targets underserved markets, providing development capital, tokenised project equity and debt, kWh monetisation, and real-time carbon credit generation.
 
In essence, Protius is designed as a public coordination layer for renewable energy. It is not just another token or marketplace. It aims to make climate infrastructure composable, investable, and community-owned.

This is valid for all categories of Partners/Clients of the Protius Protocol, namely Investors, Project Developers and Offtakers.

For Investors

For Project Developers

For Off Takers

Investment opportunities

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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

Project Details

Invest in a project & trade kWhs

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200 KWp

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1 MWp

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15 MWp

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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

Our Communities are highly diversified. Protius is a meeting place for like-minded individuals who align the need for a healthier environment (driven by Net Zero goals) with the incentive for rewards (both monetary and governance-related).

Some examples:

  • PP community supporting early stage development of projects.
  • PP community supporting the acceleration of renewable energy introduction by supporting project finance of such projects.
  • PP Contributors supporting the Governance of the Protius Protocol itself.
  • The Off Taker Club, where our Developers and Investors meet Off Takers who are part of our community, ready to provide a market for all the projects coming on line.
  • The Carbon Credit ambassadors. This part of the community is particularly geared towards carbon credits and I-RECs to be traded and exchanged across the globe, again collaborating towards Net Zero goals.
  • Curious Members. A portion of the community which has come to the Protius Protocol by chance and which has been fascinated by the simplicity and yet the efficacity of the ecosystem. This part of the community eventually grows and spills into other portions of our Community. 

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.

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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.

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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.

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Acquire kWp Tokens

Join other interested parties and become co-owner of a RE plant. Choose the project which best suits your preference in terms of Kwp (capacity) of the project, project location (geography), and project configuration (solar, wind, biomass, green hydrogen, etc.) 

Buy Tokens – choose your preferred currency

  • Stablecoins
  • Fiat Currency
  • Specify amount of time for funds to be staked
  • Vote on Governance Decisions
  • Convert your Governance tokens into Green tokens

We create an environment centred on dis-intermediation, decentralisation and real-time automatic transactions at the funding and development phase of a Renewable Energy project. The Protius Protocol with the use of Smart Contracts and Web3 technology allows for more affordable power with lower kWh prices. The process cycle will be shortened and will be extremely transparent. kWhs will be easily transacted globally.


In essence capital will be automatically allocated and kWp and kWh tokens will be settled in an automated manner.

We strive to fulfill a gap which we have identified in the RE industry, namely to facilitate a self -enforceable and tamper-proof RE environment, by removing all intermediaries and reducing transacting, contracting, enforcement and compliance costs.

In this way, transactions become more efficient, promptly reducing costs to all the participants of a RE project. The end result is the price reduction of a renewable kWh to any off-taker.

Problem Statement

The Renewable Energy industry faces several key challenges which revolve around the amount of friction inherently found in many aspects of the project cycle. These are mainly:

High Costs

The many actors in a RE project (insurances, engineering firms, law firms, etc.) all try to maximize their margins and this leads to inflated project costs.

Lack of Transparency

Most parties work in a silo and many transactions take place without full transparency of all main actors.

Extended Lead Times

The many parties involved in a RE project all add to bottlenecks and timeline issues.