Energy: double count

Renewable energy markets were built to reward clean generation, but in practice they leave too much room for duplicate claims and delayed payments. Certificates are often issued from spreadsheets uploaded to registries long after the energy was generated. Different programs use different standards, and reconciliation happens after trades have already moved value. The result is that the same kilowatt-hour can sometimes be wrapped twice, or worse, sold across more than one market.

This isn’t just a technical flaw — it slows cash flow. Producers who generate clean electricity must often wait weeks or months before they see liquidity. By the time certificates are reconciled, working capital that should have been available for operations is trapped in the verification pipeline.

What breaks is simple: evidence is fragmented, issuance isn’t atomic with generation, and lineage is scattered across portals.

EDMA fixes this at the protocol level. Every batch of energy is tied to a canonical evidence hash signed by meters, operators, and auditors. That hash produces a route-agnostic claimId, which can be finalized only once in the global One-Claim Ledger. If the same evidence is submitted again, it fails automatically. Only after verification passes does EDMA mint Energy Tracking Tokens (ETT) as proof, and from there allow conversion into market units like Energy NFTs or Carbon Credit NFTs.

For producers, this means time-to-cash measured in hours, not weeks. Certificates become trustworthy by design because they cannot be duplicated. Markets gain integrity, financiers gain confidence, and small generators gain the same direct access as utilities.

In EDMA, every kilowatt-hour exists once, settles once, and pays out once.