Distributed-ledger technology for energy

Close the gap.
Tokenize the equity.
Fund the grid.

Mid-scale renewable projects in emerging markets sit stranded between grants and big infrastructure money. We build the digital ledger that lets those projects represent, record and administer their equity — auditably, from day one.

< USD 1M grants · aid · microfinance USD 5–50M 5–50 MW · STRANDED THE MISSING MIDDLE > USD 50M banks · DFIs · infra funds capital capital capital PROJECT SIZE →
USD 2.8Tclean-energy investment emerging economies need every yearIEA · net-zero pathway
~1/3of that need actually funded todayIEA · 2022 actuals vs need
USD 135–200Bmid-market financing gap — too big for grants, too small for banksDeloitte · missing middle
12–24 motypical time to financial close under bank / DFI structuresindustry benchmark
The problem we solve

Demand for clean power is surging. Capital isn't arriving where it's needed.

Emerging markets will add most of the world's new electricity demand. Their best projects are mid-sized — the exact size that today's finance ignores.

01 · DEMAND

Grids need power now

Population, industry and cooling loads push demand up faster than utilities can build. Diesel fills the gap at a premium.

02 · SUPPLY

Projects wait for money

Permitted, contracted 5–50 MW solar, wind and storage sit idle because no lender writes that cheque size in those markets.

03 · THE FIX

Rebuild the plumbing

Digitize the equity record, automate the paperwork, and let a project's ownership travel on rails that anyone can audit. That is what we build.

What EquaTerra builds

One ledger. Every stakeholder. Zero ambiguity.

EQUATERRA LEDGER equity register · milestones · cash waterfall IMMUTABLE · AUDITABLE · PERMISSIONED Projectdevelopers EPC &operators Licensedintermediaries Auditors &registrars cap table · documents sensor & milestone data onboarding · transfers read-only audit access ORACLE FEEDS meters · commissioning · payments
Software only. Regulated services in any market are performed by separately licensed parties who connect to the ledger.
Read 01 · Why tokenize equity

Turn a power plant's ownership into a living record.

A mid-scale energy project is a bundle of contracts, permits, meters and cash flows. Today its equity lives in a PDF. Tokenize it and every share becomes a line on a ledger that updates itself.

Before

Paper equity moves at the speed of couriers.

Share certificates, wet-ink transfers, quarterly spreadsheets, annual audits. Every step adds weeks, fees and a chance for the record to drift from reality. For a USD 20M plant, that friction is often the difference between funded and abandoned.

Action: collapse the record, the rules and the reporting into one object.
PAPER Certificate Notary / courier Registrar update Spreadsheet Reconcile weeks · manual · drifts TOKENIZED 1 SHARE owner · rights rules · history updates itself minutes · automatic · one truth
Same legal share. New container.
Why equity, why mid-scale

Equity is where the mid-market breaks — so start there.

Debt follows once a project is bankable. Getting to bankable takes patient, fractional, transferable equity. Tokenization makes that equity practical to record and administer at USD 5–50M scale.

DIVIDE

Split it cleanly

Fractional units let many holders own one asset without a rounding error in sight. The register stays exact at any denomination.

ENFORCE

Encode the rules

Transfer restrictions, lock-ups, holder eligibility and voting thresholds live inside the token. The ledger refuses what the shareholders' agreement forbids.

PROVE

Audit in one click

Every issuance, transfer and distribution leaves a timestamped trail. Auditors read it; nobody rebuilds it.

Lifecycle view

Follow one share from formation to operations.

1

Form

Project company created; equity issued as permissioned tokens on the ledger.

2

Record

Holder eligibility and transfer rules attached to each unit.

3

Build

Construction milestones logged from site data; releases follow pre-agreed conditions.

4

Operate

Metered output and revenue post to the ledger; distributions calculate themselves.

5

Transfer

Ownership changes settle against the register through licensed parties — instantly reflected.

Read 02 · Why now

Three curves just crossed.

Solar became the cheapest electricity in history. Ledger tooling became boring and reliable. Regulators wrote the rulebooks. Wait, and the window narrows.

2015202020252030 Cost of solar & storage ↓ Assets recorded on ledgers ↑ Digital-asset rulebooks in force ↗ NOW
Illustrative — direction, not data. Sources for market figures are named where quoted.
USD 2.8T
per year of clean-energy investment emerging economies need this decade
IEA
3–4×
the increase from today's investment level required to get there
IEA
Trillions
of real-world asset value forecast to move onto ledgers by the early 2030s
industry forecasts (McKinsey · Citi · BCG)
The window

Move now, for three reasons.

TECHNOLOGY

Rails are production-grade

Permissioned token standards, identity-gated transfers and oracle networks are mature, audited and cheap to run. The experiment phase is over.

REGULATION

Rulebooks exist

Major financial centres now define digital securities, virtual-asset services and technology providers separately. Clear lines let each party do its job.

ECONOMICS

Projects pencil out

Hard-currency offtake, falling module and battery costs and rising demand make mid-scale plants viable — if the equity can be recorded and moved efficiently.

Read 03 · Why digital rails

Replace reconciliation with one shared truth.

Every party in a project finance deal keeps its own copy of the facts. Digital rails give them one copy — cryptographically signed, permissioned, and readable by whoever has the right to read it.

Workflow
Legacy rails
Digital rails
Equity register
Registrar + lawyer + spreadsheet
Single permissioned ledger
Ownership transfer
Days to weeks, wet ink
Minutes, rule-checked
Milestone verification
Site visit, PDF report
Sensor data attested on-chain
Distribution
Manual waterfall, bank batches
Computed from ledger, traceable
Audit
Annual, retrospective
Continuous, read-only access
Cost per project
Fixed overhead, scale-unfriendly
Software-priced, scales down to 5 MW
SITEmeters · SCADA PAYMENTSofftaker receipts DOCUMENTSpermits · PPA · EPC ORACLEsign & attest LEDGER registermilestoneswaterfall hash-linked READ BY holders · auditors · licensed parties
Inputs are signed at source. Nothing on the ledger is typed in by hand.
Auditability by design

Prove it, don't promise it.

Emerging-market projects carry a trust premium. Digital rails shrink it: a lender, auditor or co-owner in another time zone verifies output, cash and ownership directly, without asking anyone to send a report.

PermissionedIdentity-gatedHash-linkedRegulator-readable
What rails don't do

Rails move records. People with licences move money and securities.

Our software records, computes and reports. Offering, arranging, custody, exchange and settlement of securities or virtual assets stay with licensed institutions who plug into the ledger. That separation is the point.

Read 04 · The platform

Five layers. One auditable spine.

EquaTerra FZCO designs, builds and licenses the software stack that project companies and their licensed partners run their tokenized equity on. We ship the technology; they run the deal.

05 · APPLICATIONS Issuer console · holder portal · auditor view · partner API WHITE-LABEL 04 · WORKFLOW ENGINE Onboarding checks · cap-table events · milestone gates · distribution waterfall · reporting packs RULES AS CODE 03 · TOKEN & REGISTER LAYER Permissioned equity tokens · identity-bound wallets · transfer-rule enforcement · immutable register THE SPINE 02 · ORACLE & DATA Site telemetry · commissioning attestations · payment confirmations · document hashes SIGNED AT SOURCE 01 · LEDGER & SECURITY Permissioned distributed ledger · key management integrations · audit log · encryption at rest and in flight FOUNDATION
Every layer writes to and reads from the same register. No side spreadsheets.
Who uses it

Built for the people who run projects — and the people who check them.

PROJECT COMPANIES

Run the register, not the paperwork

Issue equity as permissioned tokens, encode the shareholders' agreement, log construction and output, and generate distributions and reports from live data.

LICENSED PARTNERS

Plug in, stay in your lane

Intermediaries, custodians and venues connect through APIs to perform the regulated steps they are authorised for, against a register they can trust.

AUDITORS & REGISTRARS

Read everything, retype nothing

Read-only, permissioned access to the full event history — ownership, milestones, cash — with cryptographic proof of what happened when.

How we work with you

From first call to live register.

1

Scope

Map the project's documents, data sources and stakeholder roles.

2

Model

Translate the shareholders' agreement and milestone plan into ledger rules.

3

Connect

Integrate site data, payment confirmations and partner systems.

4

Deploy

Launch the permissioned register and applications for the project company.

5

Support

Operate the software; the project company and its licensed partners run the deal.

Social

Find us where the work happens.

Company updates on LinkedIn, code and technical work on GitHub.

How we operate

Four principles we build by.

Ship software

We are a technology company. We write, run and license the ledger.

Respect the perimeter

Regulated steps belong to licensed parties. We build so they can do them well.

Prove, don't assert

If it isn't on the ledger with a signature, it didn't happen.

Design for 5 MW

If the stack works for a small plant in a hard market, it works anywhere.

Talk to us

Bring a project.
We'll bring the ledger.

Developers, EPCs, licensed intermediaries and auditors working on mid-scale renewables in emerging markets — we want to hear what your paperwork looks like today.

Company
EquaTerra FZCO
Licence
Distributed Ledger Technology Services — DMCC Free Zone, Dubai
Office
Unit UT-12-CO-74, Level 12, Uptown Tower
Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, UAE
Email
hello@equaterra.io
Engineering
Dubai · Hyderabad