“…Smart meters are at their core: they monitor consumption in real time and transmit data to the supplier to help make decisions about infrastructure optimization, and thus manage energy consumption [Waite et al, 2017;Ketter et al, 2018]. Smart devices also include sensors for monitoring the electricity quality [Bagdadee et al, 2020], power transmission losses [Song et al, 2017], the state of underground infrastructure [Rodríguez et al, 2020], automating system management [Wertani et al, 2020], monitoring the condition of equipment [Dileep, 2020], and so on. Blockchain technologies are finding wide application in creating secure digital environments [Carvalho, 2015;Adeyemi et al, 2020;Zhu et al, 2020].…”