Virtual Power Plant

What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)?

It is a network of decentralized energy resources, like solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, EV chargers, and demand-responsive devices, that are coordinated through a central software platform to act like a single power plant.

Benefits:

  • Decentralized: Assets are spread out (e.g., homes, businesses).

  • Digitally coordinated: Software optimizes when and how assets produce, store, or consume electricity.

  • Flexible: Can respond quickly to energy market signals or grid needs.

  • Grid-supportive: VPPs help stabilize the grid by balancing supply and demand in real time.

What are Certificates of Origin (CoOs)?

Certificates of Origin, also known as Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) in Europe or Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) in the U.S., are digital documents that prove 1 MWh of electricity was produced from a renewable source.

Purpose:

  • Traceability: They separate the “green” attribute of energy from the physical electricity.

  • Transparency: Buyers know exactly where and how their energy was generated.

  • Market mechanism: They allow green energy to be bought and sold independently from physical electricity.

 

Trading CoOs from Virtual Power Plants

  1. A VPP aggregates thousands of small-scale renewable assets (e.g., rooftop solar).

  2. It monitors and records production across the network.

  3. As clean energy is generated, the system issues Certificates of Origin.

  4. These CoOs can be:

    • Sold to companies looking to offset their carbon footprint.

    • Traded on renewable energy certificate markets.

  5. Buyers then retire the certificates to make a claim toward their net zero targets.

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.