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PROBLEMS OF MODERN CENTRALIZED POWER GRID

Environmental and Public Health Problems, California October 23, 2015 – The underground natural gas storage located in Aliso Canyon (Los Angeles) had a massive leak1. This storage facility is the second-largest natural gas storage facility of its kind in the United States, and it supplies gas to electric power generation plants throughout Southern California. The leak problem was so dire that it prompted California Governor Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency on January 6, 2016. This Aliso Canyon incident created the environmental disaster that was estimated to be larger than the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico. It was assessed that the Aliso Canyon gas leak released approximately 5.3 gigatons of harmful methane gas into the Earth’s atmosphere, or equivalent to about 12,800 years of the total annual emission of the entire South Coast Air Basin in Southern California. The power utilities in Southern California implemented contingency plans in anticipation of the natural gas shortages for powering the local gas-based electric plants. In the meanwhile, the local residents reported headaches, nausea and severe nosebleeds. About 50 children per day saw school nurses for severe nosebleeds. By January 2016, nearly three thousand households or about eleven thousand people had been temporarily relocated while more than 6,500 families have filed for help. There are other numerous but disastrous centralized grid accidents such as the Chernobyl and the Fukushima incidents. In the Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe2, over 300,000 people were forced to relocate permanently. This nuclear accident released traceable airborne radioactive particles in all countries in the northern hemisphere. As these few examples attest, the centralized grids pose increasingly unbearable impacts to the environment, health, and safety of the people that it serves.

Safety and Reliability Problems, California September 8, 2011 – A deficient equipment maintenance procedure at a transmission switch station in Yuma, Arizona, initiated cascade grid power failures that left more than seven million residents without electricity, from San Diego County to western Arizona and Tijuana3. This major incident exposed the inherent susceptibility of the centralized power grid to point-vulnerabilities. Like the Aliso Canyon gas leak incident, a failure at one single point on the centralized power grid could cause adverse impacts to millions of customers over vast areas. Whether natural or human-induced accidents at any vulnerable points that could be located anywhere on the complex centralized power grid sprawling over the vast geographical areas, the existing power grid’s ability to guarantee safe and reliable energy services looks to be increasingly challenged.

Adaptability and Resilience, Melbourne, January 28, 2018 – More than 10,000 homes in Australia’s second most populous state were stuck without power as a surge in power demands from the scorching heat wave overloaded the grid4. This blackout was caused by a power network failure, rather than supply shortages. It impacted more than 50,00 homes. This came less than a year after Australia’s largest City, Sydney, was hit by

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blackouts during another heat wave. During an intense heat wave, power demands can precipitously peak as customers increase their air conditioning. Meanwhile, the grid T&D wires and electric power plants experience reduced electricity transmission and generation due to increased ambient temperature. In the foreseeable future of climate change, cities around the world are expected to experience growing incidents of grid failures due to adverse weathers. From heat waves in Australia and California to frigid winter spells in the northeastern US, to hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Rita or Maria, we have witnessed repeated episodes of massive grid failures due to the system’s inability to adapt and absorb the disruptions brought about by climate-change-induced events.

Unaffordable Electricity Cost, USA April 14, 2016 – According to a study by Groundswell, a nonprofit renewable energy advocacy group, the cost of electricity is increasingly burdensome for America’s working class. The study reports the bottom 20 percent of earners spend about 10 percent of their income on electricity5. There are a few reasons for centralized grid’s high costs of electricity: (a) Five to nine percent6,7 of the total energy produced is lost during the electricity transmission and distribution. As discussed above, the T&D losses amplified during hot weather spells due to increasing resistance in the T&D wires and equipment as temperature rises; (b) the electricity in AC is relatively complex which requires numerous supporting resources, called ancillary services, to ensure the delivered powers at customer sites remain within the required power quality limits. Examples of ancillary service would be frequency regulation, and voltage-level regulation. Unfortunately, the required ancillary services for the centralized AC grid are costly and account from three to seven percent of the total electricity bill8; (c) Capacity services to ensure adequate power generation capacity to maintain grid reliability during periods of peak demand. The capacity services or standby capacity reserve are compulsory because the today’s power grid lacks real-time coordination of customer power demands with the system’s available power supply. In another word, since the real-time management of power demands at customer sites lacking, the centralized grids procure excess generation capacity to standby just in case they are needed. These capacity services are also costly and can add up to 15 percent of the total bill9. These examples are just a few of the innate and costly inefficiency of the centralized AC power grid design that drives up the cost of electricity for all ratepayers.

THE SOLUTION - THE ELONCITY MODEL

With the challenges of natural disasters, population growth, and climate change, new approaches to energy production and distribution are needed. The solutions must warrant vibrant and sustained growth for all. AI Grid Foundation (Foundation) is a non-profit organization based in Singapore who advocates for employing decentralized renewable energy as a possible pathway to address the problematic centralized AC grids as mentioned above. The Foundation has collaborated with global organizations and local communities to develop the Eloncity Model; a multifaceted solution that employs decentralized renewable energy resources to eradicate barriers to attain safe, healthy, vibrant and equitable energy future.

Decentralized renewable energy is employing locally available renewable resources, such as solar or wind power, to produce electricity locally where it is consumed. When energy customers in a community coordinate with each other to exchange energy and share energy equipment costs-benefits (e.g., solar PV, BESS, energy management system, and others) to access more reliable and cost-effective local energy supply, to maximize the utilization rates of the installed equipment for accelerated return-of-investment (ROI) and other benefits, they essentially create a community-based renewable microgrid. This type of decentralized community-based renewable microgrid holds tremendous potential for fortifying the centralized grids and solving the problems threatening our energy safety and security.

The proposed Eloncity Model integrates advanced technologies, best practices and lessons learned to create a scalable and replicable recipe for unleashing the potential of the community-based renewable microgrid to attain a more vibrant regenerative energy future. The Eloncity Model builds upon four key pillars:

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1. A decentralized renewable energy architecture, which comprises of:

• A high-performance blockchain technology platform that provides an open, secured and distributed ledger for efficient recording of high-volume and high-speed energy transactions in the community. The blockchain platform also enables the Eloncity community to establish an auditable record for tracking the sources of electricity generation in the community, renewable or fossil fuel. The auditable tracking of electricity generation sources is critical for valuation of electricity based on generation sources and monitoring the community’s progress toward de-carbonization. Fundamentally, the blockchain platform will allow for increased collaboration and sharing of resources in mitigating the entrenched barriers to market-wide adoption of decentralized renewable energy.

• A crypto utility token (Eloncity Token, ECT) facilitates local energy exchange and incentivize investment in battery energy storage system (BESS) for storing harvested renewable energy, as well as creating an open global marketplace that enables communities around the world to access advanced renewable energy products and services. Similarly, renewable energy product and service providers benefit from the leveled and equal access to a unified marketplace to promote their offerings. The token helps break down siloed markets and liberate deeply rooted constraints to bring more communities into the shared regenerative economy. In essence, the token opens up new market channels for efficient linking of resources and innovative products to energy consumers.

• An intelligent networked battery energy storage system (BESS) deployed on the customer premise harmonizes local electricity supply-demand. BESS mitigates the needs for costly capacity and ancillary services. Additionally, BESS also helps to flatten intermittent renewable generations into predictable, reliable and dispatchable renewable resources. The target outcome is to make the energy infrastructure more adaptive, efficient and reliable.

• Customer-sited or community-based renewable generation, such as solar PVs coupled with an intelligent networked BESS, would fulfill all or nearly all the local energy demands. The locally produced renewable powers would eliminate or significantly lessen the needs to transport remotely generated powers through the vastly complex and often vulnerable centralized grid’s T&D networks, while at the same time eliminate losses from transporting remotely produced electricity to customer sites. Producing energy locally where it is needed is decentralized energy. It simply side steps point- vulnerabilities and inefficiency inherent in centralized grid infrastructures to deliver more secure, resilient and affordable energy services.

• Community DC power network uses the renewable DC power more efficiently by eradicating energy loss from repeated AC-DC-AC conversions as well as eliminating the needs for costly AC power ancillary services. DC electricity does not require complicated and costly support such as frequency regulation or reactive power services. The Eloncity’s proposed local DC power grid includes the DCBus Scheduler that optimizes the local electricity distribution at the individual customer-premise level in real-time. In summary, the local DC grid, DCBus Scheduler together with the networked BESS would remove the need for costly ancillary services while eliminating the loss from repeated AC-DC-AC conversions. All these technical innovations seek to improve the affordability of electricity for all.

2. Community-driven planning and implementation warrant the enduring success of the community’s transition into the sustainable, regenerative energy future. Since a community must live with this energy future, it is imperative that the community has a participatory role in defining and creating this new energy future. Additionally, the focus on the local community and its participating stakeholders will propel Eloncity implementation on five fundamental levels; a) community adoption; b) social application; c) measured impacts; d) localized roadmap for continued growth and success beyond initial implementation; e) leverage lessons learned to accelerate wide-scale replication of Eloncity Model.

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3. Combined performance-based projects with revolving loans fund create an effective strategy for mobilizing the private capitals to drive wide-scale adoption of decentralized renewable energy. The Foundation will collaborate with financial partners, government agencies, and other key stakeholders to establish revolving loans. The revolving loans’ goal is to contribute to the upfront capital for initiating the project in communities that lack access to such funding. The performance-based projects demonstrate their merits by producing real and meaningful energy bill savings for the community members while generating the required return-of-investment to pay back the startup loans. The repaid loans will be used to finance the subsequent Eloncity projects. This component ensures all Eloncity project are attractive investments and helps to mobilize private capitals to accelerate energy decentralization.

4. A collaborative and equitable regulatory framework facilitates leveled-field markets to mitigate imbalanced market powers, unleash market innovations, protect the energy consumer, and support the local economy. The regulatory framework must ensure fair market access for innovative market players and guide market-driven solutions to provide: (a) safety for the community and those that live and work in it, (b) reliable energy services that support vibrant community development in the face of climate change, (c) cost-effective energy services that are affordable to all, including low-income families, and (d) sustained success of the community transition into the healthy and safe regenerative energy future, and (e ) ensure no community will be left behind as the world accelerates into the clean regenerative energy paradigm. Fundamentally, this component empowers the local governments and city planners with more tools to fulfilling their mandates by leveraging innovative solutions that Eloncity offers, especially in linking clean renewable energies with city planning and local economic developments.

In summary, the Eloncity’s multidimensional approach leverages the following:(1) social and community development, (2) economic viability, (3) technological advancement, and (4) regulatory responsiveness through the project life cycle. This multifaceted framework ensures project planning and implementation are comprehensively informed, synergistically inclusive, equitably tested, locally responsive, systems-oriented and leverage the best of technologies.

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Figure 1: Eloncity Programmatic Dimensions

ELONCITY’S ADVANTAGES

Open and Secured Energy Transaction - The ECTP or blockchain platform provides an open, secured and distributed ledger for efficient recording of the transaction of energy services in the community in verifiable and immutable manner. The blockchain platform also enables Eloncity to establish an auditable record for tracking the sources of electricity generation in the community, whether it is renewable or fossil fuel. The auditable tracking of electricity generation sources is critical for valuation of electricity based on generation sources and monitor the community’s progress toward the renewable GHG-free future. This feature facilitates a shared resource economy to maximize asset utilization rates and cost-effective access to decentralized renewable energy.

Unified and Efficient Energy Marketplace - Eloncity Token facilitates an open market that enables communities around the world to exchange energy and shared-resources locally and also to access the unified network of global renewable energy products and solutions. Similarly, renewable product and service providers benefit from a more open global market.

Greater Reliability – The Eloncity provides greater energy service reliability through the decentralized energy architecture’s inherent design ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to and rapidly recover from potentially disruptive events. The Eloncity design includes locally solar PV arrays or windmills, and intelligent networked BESS for maintaining local electric service stability, flexibility and resilient energy supply during grid service disruptions and emergency events. The BESS, either behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter, will power the entire community for the desired duration to ride through an emergency event, through the PV non-production periods, until the sun or wind becomes available again to energize the local renewable generators to recharge the BESS. The Eloncity Model is a direct response to address the mismatch of electricity supply and demand at every level of the grid network and overcome risks of single point vulnerabilities inherent in the centralized grid architecture.

Lower Costs – The Eloncity Model is designed to lower Eloncity community energy expenditures over the project’s useful life. The energy expenditure savings are achieved by the combination of (a) Local DC grid network within each community, large appliances powered by DC electricity, together with targeted energy efficiency retrofits to lower overall energy losses and consumption, (b) Generate renewable energy locally to offset all or most of local electricity demands, (c) Flatten peak energy demands to minimize costly demand capacity charges, (d) Purchase centralized grid energy only during the period of lower cost (i.e., off-peak in constrained areas or excessive-generation in areas with utility-scale renewables), and (e) Provide ancillary services to the centralized grid to generate revenues. Economic savings is a fundamental feature of the Eloncity Model, especially in addressing the mounting challenges with high energy cost which disproportionately burden the underserved communities.

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Increased Safety – The Eloncity’s renewable generation and BESS reduce or eliminate risks from the dependence on fossil fuel-based backup generators that are often not available in a disaster, have high safety risks of fire, explosions, gas poisoning, and are quite likely available for only the limited amount of time while gas/diesel is available. Eloncity will power the public safety facilities indefinitely in standalone mode with inexhaustible local renewable resources. The Eloncity Model offers a direct response to address the unacceptable risks to public health and safety posed by the fossil fuel-based energy resources.

Societal Benefits – Community-based renewable microgrid (CRM), based on the Eloncity Model, supplies daily clean renewable energy to power the community. The CRM provides energy security and community safety during the disaster and emergency events, as well as ongoing energy bill savings that allow the community to focus its budgets toward critical social programs. Additionally, CRM projects include targeted building energy efficiency retrofits that not only produce energy and financial savings but also make existing community facilities more comfortable and productive with the installation of more energy efficient equipment and building retro commissioning. This mission is driven by how the Eloncity Model is structured to unlock more than quantitative benefits through a decentralized energy system. The vision of Eloncity is also grounded in an energy future that is more equitable and poised for universal replication because of its intended qualitative and societal benefits. Beyond the metrics of a more efficient energy system, the decentralized energy system of the Eloncity Model is designed specifically to advance the environmental, social and cultural values of its stakeholders.

GHG Emissions Reduction – Eloncity will achieve significant GHG emission mitigation by (a) reducing GHG emission through targeted building energy efficiency to lower energy consumption, (b) replacing fossil fuel- based electricity generation with renewable electricity generation and (c) limiting the needs to operate fossil fuel-based peaker plants through flatten peak demands with load-shifting with combinations of energy storage and customer energy demand management. This feature addresses the concern for public health and environmental equity, especially for disadvantaged communities.

Adaptation – Eloncity’s decentralized energy system provides the community with increasing energy security and resilience to adapt to any potential climate-induced, other natural or human-made disasters. The Eloncity’s decentralized and redundant local renewable generations with intelligent networked BESS will continuously power the community during emergency events when the centralized grid services are disrupted. The ability to safeguard the community with a resilient energy infrastructure remains a dire need that is the embedded in the DNA of the Eloncity Model.

Low-emission Vehicles/ Transportation – The Eloncity power system and blockchain architectures include an advanced energy management system, local renewable power generation, an intelligent networked BESS, electric vehicle (EV) to grid connection, and roaming EV charging to support the electrification of transportation. With the benefits of EV and V2G technologies, the Eloncity Model advances public safety, health, and lower transportation cost.

Economic Development – Eloncity will produce energy locally for local consumption. Significant energy expenditures will be retained locally to support the local economy. Eloncity projects will directly support local clean energy employment that will provide human resources to support the Eloncity project planning, design, build and operation. Thus, Eloncity provides not only energy security and community safety, it also holds significant potential for economic development where local communities are empowered to expand the local capacity and workforce.

Environmental Benefits and Public Health – As discussed in the above paragraphs on “Increasing Safety” and “GHG Emission Reduction”, Eloncity will maximize the synergies of targeted energy efficiency retrofits, decentralized renewable generation, energy storage and other decentralized resources to lessen the reliance on fossil fuel backup generators that are often not available in a disaster, have high safety risks of fire, explosions, and gas poisoning.

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ELONCITY’S TARGET MARKETS
The potential markets for the Eloncity Solution would be areas that are being served by fossil fuel and nuclear powered centralized grid, or areas that lack electricity services. Eloncity’s market penetration strategy intends on providing full turnkey solutions in areas that lack electricity infrastructure, while simultaneously offering tailored Eloncity solutions to incumbent utilities to address the chronic challenges facing the existing centralized grids. The restructuring of existing utility regulatory regimes is not prerequisite for the success of Eloncity market transformations.

During the initial market development phase, the Foundation will focus on disaster-prone and rural areas because these areas: (a) either have no electricity services or most vulnerable to electricity service disruptions, which would benefit the most from the Eloncity Model; (b) typically lack the local capacity to plan and create the safe, secure and sustainable energy future; and (c) are hard-to-reach and underserved communities. With a more reliable, secured, affordable decentralized renewable energy system, Eloncity microgrids aid underserved communities in rural areas to join the mainstream economy.

Concurrently, the Foundation will collaborate with utilities in dense urban areas to provide the Eloncity Model to address pockets of constrained service areas on the centralized grids. During periods of high energy demands, the congested areas do not have the adequate T&D capacity to import needed electricity to meet the customer’s energy needs reliably. The traditional solution would be costly grid infrastructure upgrades and re-commission fossil fuel or nuclear power plants. On the other hand, Eloncity Model produces renewable energy locally for local consumption thus negating the need for costly upgrades of the centralized grid infrastructure.

ELONCITY IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP
Eloncity implementation roadmap delineates into three primary phases: Throughout Phase 1, the Foundation collaborated with a coalition of global partners to develop key building block technologies for the Eloncity Model over the past four years. The collaborative efforts have resulted in commercial launches of intelligent networked BESS, energy management software, DC appliances and customer-sited renewable power generators. These building block technologies have enabled successful deployments of several hundred self-sufficient buildings; During Phase 2, the Foundation will collaborate with research and education institutions, public agencies, local governments, local utilities, global technology partners, financing partners, and community-based organizations to demonstrate fully functional Eloncity Model in real communities throughout the world. The Eloncity Model will be the integration of Phase-1’s building block technologies with three additional building blocks: the blockchain protocol (Eloncity Token Protocol or ECTP) and crypto utility token (Eloncity Token or ECT) to support community energy exchange, community capacity development for the planning and implementation of renewable microgrids, performance-based project financing with revolving loans, and a decentralized regulatory framework to support market-driven decarbonization. The pilot sites will be in diverse geographical regions to demonstrate the replicability of Eloncity’s universal design in meeting the unique needs of diverse energy markets. Key outputs of Phase 2 will be the recipe for replicating Eloncity Model. The Foundation will publish best practices, lessons learned, and project energimplementation processes to assist communities in adopting and implementing the Eloncity Model. In Phase 3, the Foundation will focus on mass- market transformation to proliferate the Eloncity Model to all targeted markets globally.

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ELONCITY MASS MARKET ACCELERATION
The strategies to build momentum and accelerate wide-scale adoption of crypto-economics and renewable

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energy decentralization within the technology dimension of the Eloncity Model, are embedded in the other three pillars of the Eloncity programmatic framework as shown in Figure-1; 1) Eloncity Community Development; 2) Performance-based project financing and revolving loans; 3) Collaborative and equitable regulatory framework. These three pillars together with the technology pillar are designed to synergize and accelerate the proliferation of the Eloncity Model based on four strategies:

1. Overcome Entrenched Barriers - Using multifaceted strategies at each stage of the Eloncity development to overcome commonly identified social, economic, political barriers that hinder adoption of decentralized renewable energy and crypto-economics.

2. Calibrated and Tailored Solution - Applying the four-foundational programmatic framework to optimally configure the Eloncity Model specific to the social, economic, environmental and policy dimensions that are unique to each project site. The local tailoring ensures that every new Eloncity site built represents a successful project in addition to the attractive investment portfolio across multiple markets.

3. Stimulated Demands - Mobilize an ever-growing target of local and international consumers, cross- industry financial partners, as well as institutional regulatory and policy players to drive demand-side economics, accelerate public acceptance, expand viral appeal, and catalyze further mass applications of the Eloncity Model through an innovative multi-stakeholder engagement process.

4. Propagation tools - Apply insights and best practices from ongoing project portfolio to accelerate replicability and transferability of knowledge for the propagation of the Eloncity Model. The Foundation will provide enabling technologies, reference design, standardization of methods, pragmatic tools, verified strategies to equip product and service providers, communities, local-decision makers and city planners, as well as financial partners and interested investors.

AI GRID FOUNDATION

AI Grid Foundation (Foundation), a non-profit organization based in Singapore and an advocate for using decentralized renewable energy to address the urgent problems of centralized grids.. We see an attainable energy future that is safer, cleaner, more profitable, and more accessible to all. We believe the shared and consensus-based blockchain technology is vital for building the collaborative decentralized renewable energy future. We recognize that a crypto utility token is an effective and efficient catalyst to create an open and unified renewable energy marketplace for linking energy consumers with product and service providers. We collaborate with global technology and financial partners, local governments and public agencies, communities, and advocacy groups, non-profit organization and other stakeholders to build a collective pathway to that future.

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ELONCITY TEAM AND ADVISORS

TEAM

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Andy Li, Founder

Andy previously led ChinaCache to build the content distribution network (CDN) Internet infrastructure. CDN is analogous to the networks of decentralized energy resources on the energy infrastructure. Andy also led Alibaba Cloud Computing Data Center Architecture team to pioneer the application of direct current (DC) power system for mega data centers in Asia. Additionally, Andy mastered the network traffic engineering at Cisco System. His work helped to realize the system intelligence at the edge of the network, which is significantly superior to the traditional core distribution networks. Since 2014, Andy has been leading POMCube Inc. to develop intelligent networked battery energy storage systems (“BESS”). POMCube Inc. will be one of the Foundation’s technology partners in implementing the pilot Eloncity Model microgrids to demonstrate the open standard ECTP.

Michael Nguyen, VP of Program Development

Mike’s 30-year career spans across multiple industries; from non-profits, advanced energy programs and policy to IT research and development, to international manufacturing operation and markets development. Mike holds 17 patents and four industry awards for technology innovation. Over the last seven years, Mike’s work focused on California’s ambitious energy programs and policies. His work focused on working with ratepayers and environmental advocacy groups, utilities, technology companies, research institutions and federal agencies to develop performance-based and customer-driven energy programs. He has worked with key stakeholders including California Energy Commission and Public Utility Commission.

Gregary Liu, Marketing Director, Americas

Gregary has 11+ years experience in server system solution architecture and product development. He served as Lead OCP/OCS/OPEN19 design requirements for Mega-Datacenter. He holds an MBA in Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung University; B.S. in Physics, National Taiwan University.

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Dunping Yao, Hardware Engineering Manager

Dunping has 6 years experience in BMS hardware design. Other work includes being a Research Assistant, VRB charging technology for two years at INET (Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology) of Tsinghua University. He has a degree in MSEE in Detection Technology and Automatic Equipment, University of South China.

Justin Wang, Product Manager Lead Architect for iCAN, NetZero, Architect, Modular Data Center, Smart3Technology Sr. ME, Emerson Network Power, Xian, China.

Allen Ding, Eloncity Project Manager 9 years experience in electronic design, Expert in magnetic device design and power topology B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Nanhua University.

Peng Xu, Software Engineering Manager 10+ years experience in software development, architecture design, and data analysis, NetZero Software Architect, helped develop POMCube web service system, Built and maintained Foxconn e-commerce website.

Haichuan Jiang, System Verification Manager 10+ years technical experience in system testing and software testing programs Success in managing Integrated Communication Exchange System verification projects Lead team in Energy Storage System project based on the cloud platform (AWS)

ADVISORS

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Howard Choy, Local Government, and Public Agencies

Howard led the Office of Sustainability in Los Angeles County to develop and manage energy and environmental programs for both municipal operations and in the Los Angeles County region. The Office manages the County’s $200 million annual energy/ utility budget for internal operations, energy efficiency programs, and power generation facilities.

Michael Yuan

Michael received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of 5 books on software development, published by Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley, and O’Reilly. Michael was an active code committer in large Open Source projects such as Firefox, Fedora, JBoss, and others. He is an expert on enterprise and mobile software and a Principal Investigator on multiple research projects supported by the US government funds.

Bryan Allen

Beginning in 1987, Bryan began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He won three major aviation prizes and is the owner of 22 world aviation records, four that are still current. He is delighted that the home he shares with his wife has three plug-and-play solar panels, two iCANs, and a monthly electricity bill below $20 per month.

Enso Li, DC Power System Enso is the chief architect of Tencent Data Center and has a rich experience in 240V high-voltage direct current, data center methodology, modular data center, Rack Server and lithium battery. He has nearly 20 patents and has published more than 20 papers and books.

Haifeng Qu

The vice chairperson of Communications and Information Technology Committee of the China Engineering Construction Standardization Association and participates in the formulation of China’s data center industry standards. has also long served IDC and ISP companies.

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Robert Fortunato, Net-Zero-Energy

Robert designed award-winning Green Idea House, one of the first affordable, net zero energy, zero carbon case study houses built with standard construction materials and off-the-shelf technologies. He is a frequent guest lecturer in Pepperdine’s MBA Program. Most recently he is working at the LA Cleantech Incubator, coaching startups and developing the strategy in their built environment space.

Robert Mao

Robert Mao, Founder, and CEO of ArcBlock, Inc., are a serial entrepreneur and innovator. Mao’s projects and activities have been covered widely by global news media, including TechCrunch, CNN, USA Today, and other outlets. Mao was introduced to Bitcoin in 2009 and has been researching and experimenting with blockchain technology since 2013. He has spoken about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology at events around the world.

Chris Whalley

Mechanical Engineer and Call Firefighter living in Topanga Canyon, California. His primary interest is now focused on low impact living strategies. Chris is looking forward to eliminating his family’s fossil fuel use by getting an electric dirt bike and someday converting his 4x4 for EV camping trips. He has been using the iCAN since October 2016 and sees residential energy storage as one of the important technologies to make the electric lifestyle easy, economical and fun.

Kelvin Xu

Kelvin is the VP of software of RiC Semiconductor with rich experiences of the 3D facial recognition and RF radar for autonomous driving. He held Sr. software positions in S&P 500 companies (Bell Canada, Nortel, Alcatel, Fujitsu) as well as startups. His expertise includes: AI, Blockchain, Big Data, IoT, network security, wireless and optical communication. Mr. Xu holds multiple US patents in wireless, IoT, and optics communication.

Mr. Xu holds M.Sc. degree from McGill University and B.Sc. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in GeoPhysics.

Jasmine Zhang

Jasmine currently works as a Key Account Director at NVIDIA in their Beijing office where she manages three major accounts, comprising a market cap of $20-50B each, to accelerate the enterprise AI adoption and coordination with OEM partners on product and service delivery. Prior to her role at NVIDIA, Jasmine was a Managing Consultant with IBM Global Services where she drove the IBM smart grid global initiatives in China. As a private consultant she also advised the CEO of China’s State Power Group Co. on growth opportunities and strategic planning in the electronic vehicles market. Jasmine earned an MBA in Strategy and Marketing, as well as a MS in Global Sustainable Enterprises from the University of Michigan.

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