Energy Blockchain for Public Energy Communities

This paper suggests an application of blockchain as an energy open data ledger, designed to save and track data regarding the energy footprint of public buildings and public energy communities. The developed platform permits writing energy production and consumption of public buildings using blockch...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2021-04, Vol.11 (8), p.3457
Main Authors: Galici, Marco, Mureddu, Mario, Ghiani, Emilio, Celli, Gianni, Pilo, Fabrizio, Porcu, Paolo, Canetto, Beatrice
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blockchain
energy analytics
energy communities
Energy consumption
Energy industry
Energy management
energy open data
Experimentation
Internet of Things
Open data
Privacy
Public buildings
Public domain
Public sector
Sustainability
sustainability KPIs
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Summary:This paper suggests an application of blockchain as an energy open data ledger, designed to save and track data regarding the energy footprint of public buildings and public energy communities. The developed platform permits writing energy production and consumption of public buildings using blockchain-enabled smart meters. Once authenticated on the blockchain, this data can be made available to the public domain for techno-economic analyses for either research studies and internal or third parties audits, increasing, in this way, the perceived transparency of the public institutions. A further feature of the platform, starting on the previously disclosed raw data, allows calculating, validating, and sharing sustainability indicators of public buildings and facilities, allowing the tracking of their improvements in sustainability goals. The paper also provides the preliminary results of a field-test experimentation of the proposed platform on a group of public buildings, highlighting the possible benefits of its widespread exploitation.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app11083457