Title
SynergyGrids: blockchain-supported distributed microgrid energy trading
Abstract
Growing intelligent cities is witnessing an increasing amount of local energy generation through renewable energy resources. Energy trade among the local energy generators (aka prosumers) and consumers can reduce the energy consumption cost and also reduce the dependency on conventional energy resources, not to mention the environmental, economic, and societal benefits. However, these local energy sources might not be enough to fulfill energy consumption demands. A hybrid approach, where consumers can buy energy from both prosumers (that generate energy) and also from prosumer of other locations, is essential. A centralized system can be used to manage this energy trading that faces several security issues and increase centralized development cost. In this paper, a hybrid energy trading system coupled with a smart contract named SynergyGrids has been proposed as a solution, that reduces the average cost of energy and load over the utility grids. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first attempt to create a hybrid energy trading platform over the smart contract for energy demand prediction. An hourly energy data set has been utilized for testing and validation purposes. The trading system shows 17.8% decrease in energy cost for consumers and 76.4% decrease in load over utility grids when compared with its counterparts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s12083-021-01199-y
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Blockchain, Distributed energy trading, Microgrids, Smart contracts, Energy as a service
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1936-6442
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Moayad Aloqaily100.68
Ouns Bouachir281.87
Oznur Ozkasap300.68
Faizan Safdar Ali481.48