# U.S. Department of Energy Develops XRP Ledger Applications for Energy Trades By Simon Yoon Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/56997 Published: 2026-11-13T20:05:14.000Z Updated: 2026-11-13T20:05:14.000Z Section: Technology > The initiative targets transaction processing and charge settlement. A separate XRP Ledger snapshot valued JMWH at $2.229 billion. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is developing blockchain applications on the XRP Ledger for electricity and other energy trades, adding digital settlement infrastructure to a federal energy-market project. The project is intended to make transaction processing and the settlement of related charges more efficient. Its scope includes electricity and other energy trades. The work centers on trade and settlement infrastructure, while other XRP Ledger projects have represented energy assets as tokens. An earlier [snapshot of real-world assets represented on the XRP Ledger]() valued JMWH, offered by Justoken and representing one megawatt-hour, at $2.229 billion. It accounted for about 49% of represented value in that snapshot. The figures describe different activity: the snapshot measures assets represented on the network, while the DOE project concerns infrastructure for conducting and settling energy trades. The JMWH valuation does not measure DOE trade volume or quantify XRP used in the project. ## Links in this article - [snapshot of real-world assets represented on the XRP Ledger](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/34122)