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An Energy Blockchain, a Use Case on Tendermint
Giuseppe SciumèM. L. Di SilvestrePierluigi GalloMariano Giuseppe IppolitoGaetano ZizzoE. Riva Sanseverincsubject
blockchainBlockchaintransactive energyEnvironmental EngineeringComputer science020209 energyEnergy Engineering and Power Technology02 engineering and technologyPeer-to-peercomputer.software_genreEnergy storageIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineeringenergy market0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringEnergy marketElectrical and Electronic Engineeringpeer to peerSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniFocus (computing)business.industryRenewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment020208 electrical & electronic engineeringData structureSettore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiamicrogridHardware and ArchitectureDistributed generationbusinesscomputerEnergy (signal processing)Computer networkdescription
The recent advances in distributed energy systems require new models for exchanging energy among prosumers in microgrids. The blockchain technology promises to solve the digital issues related to distributed systems without a trusted authority and to allow quick and secure energy transactions, which are verified and cryptographically protected. Transactions are approved and subsequently recorded on all the machines participating in the blockchain. This work demonstrates how users, which are nodes of the energy and digital networks, exchange energy supported by a customized blockchain based on Tendermint. We focus on the procedures for generating blocks and defining data structures for storing energy transactions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 |