Review of Blockchain Potential Applications in the Electricity Sector and Challenges for Large Scale Adoption

Nour, Morsy; Ávila, José Pablo Chaves; Sánchez-Miralles, Álvaro

doi:10.1109/access.2022.3171227

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“…1, if EV is connected to the LVDN at time instant t 0, othewise (10) The energy stored at each EV E (t,h) EV that is connected to the grid in a time instant t is calculated by (11). Where η c EV and η d EV are the EV charging and discharging efficiency, respectively.…”

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“…However, it has some limitations, such as a single point of failure, prosumers' privacy concerns, etc. [11]. To overcome these limitations, many studies proposed using distributed ledger technologies to manage P2P energy trading in a decentralized way where no central entity is required to operate the market [11], [12].…”

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“…[11]. To overcome these limitations, many studies proposed using distributed ledger technologies to manage P2P energy trading in a decentralized way where no central entity is required to operate the market [11], [12]. Ref.…”

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Impacts of Community Energy Trading on Low Voltage Distribution Networks

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The wide spread of distributed energy resources (DERs) enabled the transformation of the passive consumer to an active prosumer. One of the promising approaches for optimal management of DERs and maximizing benefits for the community and prosumers is community energy trading (CET). CET gives the prosumers the flexibility and freedom to trade electricity within the neighborhood and maximize their economic benefits besides maximizing local consumption of renewable energy sources generation. Despite the economic benefits of CET for individuals and the whole community, it could cause impacts on the low voltage distribution network (LVDN). Therefore, there is a need for a comprehensive evaluation of the potential impacts of CET on LVDN. This study compared CET with the home energy management system (HEMS) regarding community operation costs and interaction with the retailer. Furthermore, this paper focused on assessing the impacts of CET between prosumers on the phase unbalance of LVDN. Moreover, the impacts on transformer loading, lines loading, and voltage deviations are assessed. Compared to the corresponding HEMS scenarios, the results demonstrate that CET reduces the community electricity cost by up to 31%. CET resulted in better self-consumption by reducing the exports to the retailer by 93% and better self-sufficiency by covering up to 54% of energy demand by community DERs. However, CET resulted in increasing the community peak demand, accordingly, higher impacts on the LVDN. The transformer is lightly loaded in all scenarios. CET resulted in limit violations in some lines, whereas most are lightly loaded. The voltage magnitude and voltage unbalance exceeded the acceptable limits at some nodes of the LVDN.

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“…Furthermore, Jogunola et al focused on providing an extensive review regarding the potential of combining blockchain consensus algorithms with deep reinforcement learning in transactive energy systems [21]. Nour et al [22] discussed the potential of adopting blockchain in the energy sector with a focus on pilots and industrial projects. In addition, a number of recent surveys have been presented to overview blockchain-based applications with smart grids [23], [24], [25], [26].…”

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A Taxonomy and Lessons Learned From Blockchain Adoption Within the Internet of Energy Paradigm

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The concept of the internet of energy (IoE) emerged as an innovative paradigm to encompass all the complex and intertwined notions relevant to the transition of current smart grids towards more decarbonization, digitalization and decentralization. With a focus on the two last aspects, the amount of intelligent devices being connected in a scattered way to the existing power grid is ever-growing. Nevertheless, guaranteeing a cyber-secure and resilient control of these IoE components as well as a seamless and reliable delivery of electricity services, such as renewable energy exchange, electric vehicles charging, demand response, and so forth; might be the bottleneck of current power systems that are largely still functioning following a centralized approach. Thus, the future power grid would gradually incorporate a growing number of distributed-based control schemes to deal with this challenge. And many believe that blockchain could be a key-enabler in this transition, due to its consistent characteristics with multiple requirements of future power systems. In this paper, we provide an extensive state-of-the-art of blockchain-based additions to the IoE. Where, we first introduce various concepts related to blockchain and discuss the rationale behind its adoption in the context of IoE. Then, differently from the existing body of literature surveys, we do not only provide a taxonomy and evaluate a wide range of recent research outputs that integrated blockchain within modern power systems. But we also draw some valuable lessons learned for each studied category and discuss the intersection of blockchain with various emerging paradigms that have the potential of radically impacting the smart grid. In addition, we present some real-world industrial initiatives and ongoing projects built on top of blockchain, dedicated for offering diverse electricity services with a case study of a pilot project on energy trading in Amsterdam. Finally, we discuss the remaining challenges and worthwhile opportunities of deploying blockchain in this particular area, with a focus on the aspect of operational cyber-security.

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“…The electricity bill has received little attention from academics, despite its important contents. There have been efforts to encourage energy efficiency through informative strategies in bills (Bichsel et al, 2019) or to apply blockchain technology to the billing process (Nour et al, 2022 andHlaing &Nyaung, 2019). The only research on the user's comprehension of this document is focused on design and form (Subiela Hernández et al, 2019 andSubiela Hernández et al, 2022), but it does not analyse linguistic aspects.…”

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Plain language and the right to understand in the regulated electricity bill in Spain

Subiela-Hernández,

Gálvez-Vidal,

Miralles González-Conde

2023

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Según la Comisión Nacional del Mercado y la Competencia, un 40% de los usuarios domésticos no entiende su factura de la luz. Este trabajo examina si dicha factura, obligatoria por ley para todos los consumidores domésticos (consumidores con contratos por debajo de 15 kW), está redactada en lenguaje claro. El lenguaje claro es un requisito imprescindible para alcanzar el derecho a entender. Este derecho debería ser respetado y fomentado especialmente por la administración pública. La investigación se centra en el análisis de los textos del modelo de factura regulada en España desde una doble perspectiva. Primero se observa si cumple con los estándares de la textualidad procedentes de la Lingüística del texto, por medio de una aproximación cualitativa. Después, se identifica, mediante una metodología cuantitativa, si la factura cumple con las recomendaciones gramaticales del lenguaje claro. La hipótesis inicial considera que los textos de este documento no han tenido en cuenta las recomendaciones para un lenguaje claro desde el punto de vista gramatical y tampoco han observado las particularidades que implica la elaboración, recepción y comprensión de sus contenidos en un contexto pragmático determinado. Los resultados tienden a confirmar la hipótesis y se ofrecen, cuando es pertinente, formas de redacción alternativas que facilitarían una mayor comprensión de los conceptos facturados. La factura vigente en la actualidad ha sido elaborada como un documento jurídico administrativo y en su redacción no se han tenido en cuenta ni a sus receptores ni a la utilidad que debería tener para ellos este documento.

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Review of Blockchain Potential Applications in the Electricity Sector and Challenges for Large Scale Adoption

Cited by 31 publications

References 104 publications

Impacts of Community Energy Trading on Low Voltage Distribution Networks

Impacts of Community Energy Trading on Low Voltage Distribution Networks

A Taxonomy and Lessons Learned From Blockchain Adoption Within the Internet of Energy Paradigm

Plain language and the right to understand in the regulated electricity bill in Spain

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