What this page covers
EDMA's energy platform turns physical renewable generation into tradeable on-chain certificates with cryptographic provenance from the source device through final retirement against a compliance program. This page covers the five-stage flow (device telemetry through $ETT/$CLE mint to marketplace and retirement) and the four inclusion patterns the platform unlocks (residential rooftop, community solar, diesel-to-solar, 24/7 CFE matching).
The platform sits in the broader EDMA architecture as the supply side of the ESG/Energy/Carbon marketplace. Verified generation creates the tokens; the marketplace makes them tradeable; the retirement event closes the lifecycle. For the marketplace mechanics see Marketplace Overview; for the full set of ESG routes see ESG Flows Overview.
Smart meters, solar inverters, wind turbine controllers, and battery system inverters emit real-time generation and consumption data. The protocol's device integration layer collects this telemetry through certified gateways with cryptographic signing at the source. Each reading includes the device identity, timestamp, generation amount (kWh), location, and grid-zone metadata.
Every 10 kWh of verified generation mints 1 $ETT to the producer. $ETT is the canonical proof unit — non-transferable, tied to the specific generation event, signed by the attestor cohort. The granularity (10 kWh) matters for inclusion: rooftop solar households and small commercial installations generate enough to mint hundreds of $ETT per year even at modest capacities.
When accumulated $ETT reaches 1 MWh (100 $ETT units), 1 $CLE token mints alongside an Energy NFT. $CLE is the retail-tier tradeable unit with a $5 governance anchor; the Energy NFT carries the underlying provenance metadata (which devices, which time window, which attestor cohort signed). The 1 MWh threshold matches conventional energy market unit sizes for liquidity and registry-mirror compatibility.
The producer lists the Energy NFT or converts it through the ESG marketplace to a Carbon NFT (via the energy-side carbon route) or to a regional certificate (REC, SREC, GO via the compliance credits route). Standard 4 percent fee applies on certificate trades (2 percent buyer + 2 percent seller), with 50 percent of every fee burned in $EDM. The marketplace supports outright purchase for later resale, immediate retirement, or attachment to a trade delivery.
The buyer retires the certificate against their compliance program — Scope-2 procurement, CSRD reporting, ISSB disclosure, voluntary carbon commitment. Retirement is one-way: the certificate cannot be re-sold after retirement, and the One-Claim Ledger prevents re-issuance against the same underlying generation. The retirement event emits a receipt that auditors can replay from L1: the device, the time window, the attestor signatures, the marketplace trade, the burn hash, the final retirement.
Why 10 kWh and 1 MWh thresholds
10 kWh granularity for $ETT is intentionally small. The threshold determines who can participate: at 1 MWh granularity (which is the legacy REC unit), residential rooftop systems take months to accumulate enough generation to issue a single certificate, and the issuance overhead exceeds the certificate's market value. At 10 kWh granularity, even small residential systems generate hundreds of $ETT per year — continuous accumulation rather than waiting for annual issuance windows. The smaller granularity is also more useful for 24/7 carbon-free energy matching where hourly precision matters.
1 MWh threshold for $CLE matches conventional energy market unit sizes. Liquidity, registry-mirror compatibility, and corporate procurement programs all converge around the 1 MWh unit. Aggregating 100 $ETT into 1 $CLE at the 1 MWh threshold gives the platform compatibility with the legacy market unit while preserving the underlying granular provenance. The $CLE unit can be sold, retired, or converted; the underlying $ETT provenance follows it through the lifecycle.
Connecting to compliance markets
Registry mirrors keep EDMA compatible with existing compliance markets. Where regional regulation requires certificates to live on specific registries (PJM-GATS for PJM-region SRECs, AIB for European GOs, NREL for North American RECs), EDMA's energy platform binds the on-chain $CLE / Energy NFT to a registry serial through the registry mirror integration. The certificate is then valid on both rails — on-chain for crypto-native settlement, off-chain for compliance market trading.
One-Claim Ledger prevents double-counting across registries. The most common integrity failure in voluntary carbon and energy markets is the same underlying generation being claimed on multiple registries. EDMA's One-Claim Ledger references the canonical evidenceHash for every certificate; if a certificate is mirrored to a regional registry, the mirror locks that certificate from being mirrored elsewhere. Cross-registry double monetization is prevented at the protocol level.
Retirement is one-way and final. When a buyer retires a certificate against their compliance program, the One-Claim Ledger marks the underlying evidenceHash as retired. The certificate cannot be sold to another buyer; the protocol cannot re-issue against the same generation event. The retirement emits a receipt that auditors replay from L1 to satisfy disclosure requirements under CSRD, ISSB, SEC climate rules, or voluntary commitment frameworks.
Continue exploring
For the underlying tokens see $ETT and $CLE. For the marketplace where certificates trade see Marketplace Overview. For the full set of ESG routes including non-energy categories (carbon removals, methane avoidance, blue carbon) see ESG Flows Overview. For the consensus mechanism that gates every mint see Proof of Verification.
