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

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  • Liaqat Ali

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • M. Imran Azim

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • Nabin B. Ojha

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • Jan Peters

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • Vivek Bhandari

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • Anand Menon

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • Vinod Tiwari

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • Jemma Green

    (Powerledger, Level 2, The Palace, 108 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA-6000, Australia)

  • S.M. Muyeen

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar)

Abstract

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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  • Liaqat Ali & M. Imran Azim & Nabin B. Ojha & Jan Peters & Vivek Bhandari & Anand Menon & Vinod Tiwari & Jemma Green & S.M. Muyeen, 2023. "Balancing Usage Profiles and Benefitting End Users through Blockchain Based Local Energy Trading: A German Case Study," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(17), pages 1-18, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:17:p:6315-:d:1229392
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