Move over ESCOs and REC marketers. Brooklyn, New York customers are purchasing green energy through "blockchained" transactions, NPR reports

Originally developed for crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, a blockchain is a "digital ledger" of transactions -- in this case green energy "tokens" that residents buy, sell and trade similar to RECs. The blockchain trading avoids the need to switch to a retail supplier, or even use third-party RECs aggregators, for customers to purchase "green" energy, as customers can purchase directly from local residents with excess credits on an online marketplace

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What do you think of this practice? Is this the "Uber" (or moreso Airbnb) of the electric industry that "thought leaders" keep expecting? Let us know in the comments below