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A Technical Approach to the Energy Blockchain in Microgrids
Mariano Giuseppe IppolitoEleonora Riva SanseverinoGaetano ZizzoMaria Luisa Di SilvestrePierluigi Gallosubject
Settore ING-INF/03 - TelecomunicazioniComputer science020209 energy02 engineering and technologyAC powerBlockchain energy blockchain micro-grids peer-to-peer (P2P) power losses reactive power transactive energyComputer Science ApplicationsReliability engineeringPower (physics)Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaGenerator (circuit theory)Control and Systems Engineering0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringRemunerationNode (circuits)Resource managementMicrogridElectrical and Electronic EngineeringInformation SystemsVoltagedescription
The present paper considers some technical issues related to the “energy blockchain” paradigm applied to microgrids. In particular, what appears from the study is that the superposition of energy transactions in a microgrid creates a variation of the power losses in all the branches of the microgrid. Traditional power losses allocation in distribution systems takes into account only generators while, in this paper, a real-time attribution of power losses to each transaction involving one generator and one load node is done by defining some suitable indices. Besides, the presence of P–V nodes increases the level of reactive flows and provides a more complex technical perspective. For this reason, reactive power generation for voltage support at P–V nodes poses a further problem of reactive power flow exchange, which is worth of investigation in future works in order to define a possible way of remuneration. The experimental section of the paper considers a medium voltage microgrid and two different operational scenarios.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-01 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics |