Ofgem | Public Institutions

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

An EDF-led consortium is aiming to trial a local, peer-to-peer (P2P) power trading platform enabled by blockchain as one of a number of projects Ofgem is currently discussing in the context of its Regulatory Sandbox project.Ofgem’s Innovation Link announced to open an energy ‘regulatory sandbox’ – a space in which energy companies could trial new innovations without incurring or being subject to all usual regulatory requirements.

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Institution

EDF-led consortium