| Title | A permissioned blockchain system to reduce peak demand in residential communities via energy trading: a real-world case study |
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| Author | Saxena, S; Farag, H E Z; Brookson, A; Turesson, H; Kim, H |
| Source | IEEE Access vol. 9, 2020 p. 5517-5530, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3047885  Open Access |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; digital; on-line |
| Related | This publication is related to the following publications |
| File format | pdf; html |
| Province | Ontario |
| NTS | 30; 31; 32; 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 52; 53; 54 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -95.2500 -74.2500 57.0000 41.5000 |
| Subjects | Science and Technology; Economics and Industry; energy; Climate change; Adaptation measures and options; cumulative effects |
| Illustrations | tables; schematic diagrams; schematic representations; plots; flow diagrams; bar graphs; time series; phorographs |
| Program | Climate Change Impacts and
Adaptation |
| Program | Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Climate Change Adaptation Program |
| Released | 2020 12 30 |
| Abstract | Residential energy trading systems (RETS) enable homeowners with distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in virtualized energy markets that have the potential to reduce the peak demand of
residential communities. Blockchains are key enablers of RETS, by virtue of providing a decentralized, self-governed network that mitigates concerns regarding privacy and transparency. However, more real-world case studies are needed to evaluate the
techno-economic viability of blockchain-based RETS to improve their positive uptake. Thus, this article develops a permissioned blockchain-based RETS, which enables homeowners to select bidding strategies that consider the individual preferences of
their DERs, and further evaluates the impact of the bidding strategies on reducing the peak demand of the community. The proposed system is implemented on the permissioned Hyperledger Fabric platform, where a decentralized ledger is used to store all
energy bids, and a smart contract is used to execute a double auction mechanism and dispatch the homeowner DERs. The proposed system is validated by conducting simulations on a 8-home community using real-world data, and also by deploying the system
to a Canadian microgrid, where the smart contract execution time is benchmarked. Simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed system by achieving a peak demand reduction of up to 48 kW (62%), which leads to an average savings of $1.02
M for the distribution system operator by avoiding transformer upgrades. Also, the simulation results show that the execution time of the proposed smart contract is 17.12 seconds across 12 nodes, which is sufficient for RETS. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This article develops a permissioned blockchain-based residential energy trading system (RETS), which enables homeowners to select bidding strategies
that consider the individual preferences of their DERs, and further evaluates the impact of the bidding strategies on reducing the peak demand of the community. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 330262 |
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