Decentralized Demand Response in Energy Communities Using Blockchain

Cioara, Tudor; Toderean, Liana; Mitrea, Dan; Chifu, Viorica Rozina; Antal, Marcel; Anghel, Ionut; Croce, Vincenzo; Bertoncini, Massimo; Nucci, Francesco

doi:10.1109/blorin54731.2022.10028148

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“…The prosumers may live within a well-defined geographic boundary such as a district (i.e., local energy community) or not. The prosumers can be aggregated virtually using different criteria, such as their willingness to purchase green energy (i.e., renewable energy cooperatives) [5], [6]. Despite potential of energy communities, the research and operational efforts have focused so far on financial incentives for prosumers to use their flexibility and energy security while neglecting the environmental or the sustainability preferences [7].…”

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Self-sufficient energy communities using cooperative games over blockchain and smart contracts

Toderean¹,

chifu²,

Cioara³

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<p>The small-scale prosumers' decentralized cooperation and aggregation in energy communities are essential to increase renewable energy penetration and to ensure a successful energy transition. Despite their potential small-scale prosumers are not motivated to participate in local energy value chains due to a lack of trust and decentralized cooperation models for capturing local sustainability preferences, most innovation efforts are focused on financial incentives that are anyway very low. In this paper, we propose a solution for prosumers’ decentralized coordination using a cooperative game on top of a blockchain overlay by considering their complementary energy-related features and flexibility for self-sufficient energy communities. We define a governance model based on cooperative games and blockchain-sharing mechanisms reinforce the prosumers' trust to support the decentralized self-organization in coalitions to balance the renewable generation and demand. Self-enforcing smart contracts are used for the blockchain integration of the governance model to allow the decentralized creation and management of prosumers’ coalitions for optimized payoff distribution towards self-sufficiency and using tokens capturing the beyond-financial community level exchanges. The evaluation results show our solution's effectiveness in enabling prosumers to cooperate and create self-sufficient coalitions in a decentralized fashion with low gas consumption and transactional time overhead. </p>

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confidence: 99%