Designing microgrid energy markets A case study: The Brooklyn Microgrid
Designing microgrid energy markets A case study: The Brooklyn Microgrid
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10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.054
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发表时间：
2018-01-15
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11.2
通讯作者：
Weinhardt, Christof
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作者：
Mengelkamp, Esther;Gaerttner, Johannes;Weinhardt, Christof
分布式可再生能源的发电量不断增加。由于其波动性，这种不可控发电的整合对当前的能源系统提出了严峻的挑战。因此，确保能源生产和消耗的可靠平衡变得越来越重要。在我们应对这些挑战的方法中，我们建议消费者和产消者可以在微电网能源市场上以点对点的方式交易自产能源。因此，消费者和产消者可以将能源交易的利润留在自己的社区内。这为可再生能源发电厂的投资和当地供需平衡提供了激励。因此，为整合和扩大当地生产的可再生能源提供了财政和社会经济激励措施。这些微网能源市场的高效运营需要创新的信息系统，以用户友好且全面的方式整合市场参与者。为此，我们提出了基于区块链的微电网能源市场的概念，而无需中央中介机构。我们推导出七个市场组成部分作为建立高效微电网能源市场的框架。然后，我们评估布鲁克林微电网项目作为这样一个市场的案例研究，根据所需的组件。我们表明，布鲁克林微电网完全满足三个和部分完全填充的七个组件中的另外三个。此外，该案例研究表明，区块链是一种运营分散式微电网能源市场的合格技术。然而，在大多数国家，目前的法规不允许运行本地对等能源市场，因此，第七个组成部分尚不能满足。(C)2017爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有
Generation from distributed renewable energy sources is constantly increasing. Due to its volatility, the integration of this non-controllable generation poses severe challenges to the current energy system. Thus, ensuring a reliable balance of energy generation and consumption becomes increasingly demanding. In our approach to tackle these challenges, we suggest that consumers and prosumers can trade self produced energy in a peer-to-peer fashion on microgrid energy markets. Thus, consumers and prosumers can keep profits from energy trading within their community. This provides incentives for investments in renewable generation plants and for locally balancing supply and demand. Hence, both financial as well as socio-economic incentives for the integration and expansion of locally produced renewable energy are provided. The efficient operation of these microgrid energy markets requires innovative information systems for integrating the market participants in a user-friendly and comprehensive way. To this end, we present the concept of a blockchain-based microgrid energy market without the need for central intermediaries. We derive seven market components as a framework for building efficient microgrid energy markets. Then, we evaluate the Brooklyn Microgrid project as a case study of such a market according to the required components. We show that the Brooklyn Microgrid fully satisfies three and partially ful-fills an additional three of the seven components. Furthermore, the case study demonstrates that block chains are an eligible technology to operate decentralized microgrid energy markets. However, current regulation does not allow to run local peer-to-peer energy markets in most countries and, hence, the seventh component cannot be satisfied yet. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.