SolarChain: Bridging Physical Law, Verifiable Trust, and Sustainable Markets for Urban Energy Resilience

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🔬研究者:This work provides a novel integration of physical constraints into blockchain verification, offering a model for future distributed energy resource management and carbon accounting systems.

🏢実務担当者:Corporate sustainability teams exploring on-site solar verification can learn from SolarChain's physics-based approach to ensure data integrity for carbon reporting.

🏛政策担当者:Regulators designing renewable energy certificate systems or carbon accounting frameworks should consider the potential for automated physical verification to reduce fraud and enable granular tracking.

Urban decarbonization requires scaling rooftop solar across millions of fragmented producers, yet cities face a fundamental tension: energy data is easily manipulated, and economic incentives often reward speculation rather than actual infrastructure deployment. We present SolarChain, a platform that resolves both problems by anchoring digital accountability to the thermodynamic limits of solar energy conversion. Using real-time meteorological data, geospatial coordinates, and first-principles calculations of solar yield, the system establishes a hard physical boundary for every panel's maximum possible output; any reported generation exceeding this limit is automatically rejected before entering the shared ledger. This trustless verification enables a peer-to-peer marketplace with programmatic reward structures that continuously reinvest value into equipment maintenance and market liquidity, preventing the speculative hoarding that typically destabilizes blockchain-based marketplaces. When electricity is consumed, the corresponding digital credits are permanently retired in direct proportion to physical energy dissipation, creating an auditable one-to-one mapping between urban consumption and carbon accounting. Deployed across heterogeneous city nodes, the prototype demonstrates resilience against data injection attacks while lowering capital barriers for community-level solar expansion. Beyond energy, the framework offers a general model for coordinating economic activity with physical law in any domain where distributed infrastructure demands both data integrity and sustainable investment. We release the data and code as open-access on GitHub.

• arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23162first seen 2026-05-27 05:12:45