Balancing Usage Profiles and Benefitting End Users through Blockchain Based Local Energy Trading: A German Case Study

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The electricity market has increasingly played a significant role in ensuring the smooth operation of the power grid. The latest incarnation of the electricity market follows a bottom-up paradigm, rather than a top-down one, and aims to provide flexibility services to the power grid. The blockchain-based local energy market (LEM) is one such bottom-up market paradigm. It essentially enables consumers and prosumers (those who can generate power locally) within a defined power network topology to trade renewable energy amongst each other in a peer-to-peer (P2P) fashion using blockchain technology. This paper presents the development of such a P2P trading-facilitated LEM and the analysis of the proposed blockchain-based LEM by means of a case study using actual German residential customer data. The performance of the proposed LEM is also compared with that of BAU, in which power is traded via time-of-use (ToU) and feed-in-tariff (FiT) rates. The comparative results demonstrate: (1) the participants’ bill savings; (2) mitigation of the power grid’s export and import; (3) no/minimal variations in the margins of energy suppliers and system operators; and (4) cost comparison of Ethereum versus Polygon blockchain, thus emphasising the domineering performance of the developed P2P trading-based LEM mechanism.

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Ali, L., Azim, M. I., Ojha, N. B., Peters, J., Bhandari, V., Menon, A., … Muyeen, S. M. (2023). Balancing Usage Profiles and Benefitting End Users through Blockchain Based Local Energy Trading: A German Case Study. Energies, 16(17). https://doi.org/10.3390/en16176315

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