Some of you know my name from earlier ventures. You may have read the headlines. You may have formed an opinion.

I have had a company fail. I have been the subject of accusations and commentary. I have been scrutinised publicly and judged quietly. Some of that was justified. Some was not. All of it shaped what happens next.

But I did not disappear. I stayed. I listened. I accepted what was mine to carry. I took responsibility for structural flaws, governance gaps, and decisions that, in hindsight, could and should have been better. I also learned how fragile systems can become when they rely on personal trust rather than institutional discipline.

What I build now is a direct response to that fragility.

The Negawatt Economy is a protocol for conservation. It measures the energy we never needed to use. It verifies restraint. It turns avoided demand into a real, auditable asset.

It is not a carbon offset. It is proof of conservation. It is not a tokenised hope. It is trust infrastructure for the energy we do not use, designed to replace assumptions with verification (and faith with architecture).

The idea was born from years of frustration: watching meaningful efficiency go unrewarded, watching conservation disappear from balance sheets, watching load reductions quietly save systems, but never earn recognition.

The term “negawatt,” coined by Amory Lovins, gave language to the concept. The protocol gives it structure.

This is not a redemption arc. It is not a rebrand. It is a system-level response to a broken paradigm.

To those who supported me in previous ventures (particularly those holding Redeemable Preference Shares in Onism), I have not forgotten. You remain front and centre in my thinking. I built this next step knowing what was promised and what was lost.

The lessons of that collapse live in every layer of the new system. Governance is transparent. Incentives are aligned. Misconduct has consequences. Capital is traceable. Protocols are slashing-enabled and structurally trust-minimised.

No one is asked to believe in me. They are invited to test the system.

On 30 June 2025, the white paper for the Negawatt Economy will be published. It outlines the architecture, governance, validator framework, and the philosophical logic that underpins the protocol.

If you believe conservation should be rewarded (not as virtue, but as performance), then you may find something here worth building with.

This is Day One.

– Nigel Grier