Cities are teeming with households and businesses equipped with rooftop solar or micro-wind installations, often generating more clean energy than they consume.

Yet, due to regulatory bottlenecks, outdated grid infrastructure, and trust concerns, this surplus cannot be easily sold to neighbors or local businesses.

The tension between local renewable production and centralized grid-centric distribution stifles market efficiency and undercuts financial incentives for investment in renewables.

Meanwhile, consumers interested in clean energy rely on impersonal utility offerings, rarely fostering community engagement or direct economic benefit from their immediate ecosystems.

A fragmented regulatory landscape, technical incompatibility between diverse local energy origination points, lack of digital marketplace infrastructure, and trusted metering/settlement mechanisms prevent smooth P2P transaction flow.

Transparency and real-time verification are major stumbling blocks.