Megawatt is an RWA protocol that lets onchain capital finance utility-scale solar and battery storage across Central and Southeast Europe, with the energy revenue those assets generate routed back onchain as yield to depositors. The problem is capital, not capacity. Gigawatts of permitted, ready-to-build solar and storage sit unfinanced because mid-scale projects fall between infrastructure funds, whose ticket sizes push them toward much larger assets, and local banks, which remain cautious on hybrid solar-plus-storage revenue. Meanwhile, onchain capital sits in low-yielding financial instruments with almost no access to real assets. For the Buildathon, I am deploying Megawatt on Robinhood Chain: pool contracts handling deposits, yield distribution and redemption, plus a transparency layer that publishes verified production and revenue data from the physical assets onchain. Energy infrastructure is illiquid, and nobody exits a battery site the way they exit a token, so continuous verifiable performance data is what makes an investor willing to hold it. No token, no emissions. Real revenue from physical, insured assets.
What Megawatt is
Megawatt is an RWA protocol that lets onchain capital finance utility-scale solar and battery storage, with the energy revenue those assets generate routed back onchain as yield to depositors. Assets sit in Central and Southeast Europe, held through dedicated per-asset vehicles in the country where each project is built.
The problem
Capital, not capacity. Across Europe a large volume of permitted, grid-connected, ready-to-build solar and storage cannot reach financial close. Mid-scale projects fall between infrastructure funds, whose ticket sizes and largely fixed diligence costs push them toward much larger assets, and local banks, which underwrite standalone solar comfortably but remain cautious on hybrid solar-plus-storage revenue. Each project is financed as a bespoke transaction, and structuring, legal and diligence costs are close to fixed regardless of size, so at this scale they consume the return. Meanwhile enormous pools of onchain capital sit in low-yielding financial instruments, held by investors seeking exposure to real assets with real revenue and finding almost none available. These two facts have never been connected. Megawatt connects them.
Why transparency is the core primitive
Energy infrastructure is illiquid by nature. An investor cannot exit a battery site the way they exit a token, and that illiquidity is priced into every conversation about who funds storage and on what terms. The conventional response is to accept the constraint and restrict the asset class to investors with fifteen-year horizons. Megawatt takes the opposite approach: if an investor cannot exit, what makes them willing to hold is continuous, verifiable evidence the asset is performing. Production and revenue data is recorded onchain and published continuously, rather than issued as quarterly reporting into a black box. Transparency substitutes for liquidity, and widens the pool of capital prepared to finance storage at all.
What I am building during the Buildathon
Deploying Megawatt on Robinhood Chain:
- Pool contracts handling deposits, yield distribution and redemption
- A transparency layer publishing verified production and revenue data from the physical assets onchain
How revenue works
The assets earn from energy sold to the grid, arbitrage across the intraday price spread created by daytime solar saturation and evening scarcity, and grid balancing and ancillary services. Solar paired with storage produces more stable revenue across the asset life than either alone. No token. No governance. No emissions. Real revenue from physical, insured assets.
Stack
Solidity, Foundry, OpenZeppelin. Next.js, TypeScript, wagmi, viem.
Links
Website: https://megawatt.finance