Unification of Edge Energy Grids for Empowering Small Energy Producers

The current energy landscape is largely comprised of big stakeholders, who are often the monopolistic drivers of their local market. This fact does not leave any room for smaller players to participate in this procedure by contributing their part in the energy pool. Moreover, the dynamic demand for...

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Published in:Sustainability 2021-08, Vol.13 (15), p.8487
Main Authors: Markakis, Evangelos K., Nikoloudakis, Yannis, Lapidaki, Kalliopi, Fiorentzis, Konstantinos, Karapidakis, Emmanuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blockchain
Cold
Consumption
Demand
Electric power distribution
Electric power grids
Empowerment
Energy
Intelligence
Internet of Things
Optimization
Power
Power failures
Sensors
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Solar energy
Solar panels
Supervisors
Sustainability
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Summary:The current energy landscape is largely comprised of big stakeholders, who are often the monopolistic drivers of their local market. This fact does not leave any room for smaller players to participate in this procedure by contributing their part in the energy pool. Moreover, the dynamic demand for power along with the current power production rate are not corelated, rendering the power distribution grid, a best effort network, prone to power failures, due to the inevitable irregularities in demand. This paper introduces a novel concept that allows small energy producers, such as solar panel grids, to offer their production excess through an intelligent energy brokerage blockchain-based framework. The proposed framework ingests the vast amounts of bigdata stemming from the distributed smart energy grids smart metering and allows for automatic commercial transactions of power between the participants of a dedicated marketplace. Values dynamically fluctuate depending on the real-time offer and demand and the grid’s state. Thus, all partaking stakeholders are able to take the most out of their product by leveraging the intelligence provided by the energy marketplace, and contribute to the overall stabilization of the energy grid.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su13158487