Exploring the Blockchain Technology in Electricity Trading

探索电力交易中的区块链技术

• 批准号: 523527-2018
• 负责人: Youssef, Amr
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=669403
• 关键词: Exploring; Blockchain; Technology; Electricity; Trading

The salient features of the emerging smart grid electricity systems and energy markets include bidirectional**flow of energy, information, and money to and from the consumer/prosumer premises and across the**distribution grid. This requires new paradigms to accommodate multi-lateral transactive exchanges at**wholesale and retail levels. Blockchain is an emerging technology for peer-to-peer transaction platforms that**uses decentralised storage to record all transaction data. Recently, a large number of new applications have**been emerging that add to the technology's core functionality, i.e., the decentralised storage of transaction data,**by integrating mechanisms that allow for the actual transactions to be effected on a decentralised basis. These**mechanisms, called "smart contracts", operate on the basis of individually defined rules, e.g. specifications as**to quantity, quality, price, that enable an autonomous matching of distributed providers and their prospective**customers. The Grid Solutions Department at SNC-Lavalin is interested in investigating the applications of**blockchain and smart contract technologies in the area of peer-to-peer electricity trading. Throughout this**project we will investigate the potential use of blockchain technologies and smart contracts in electricity**peer-to-peer trading sector and to explore what opportunities these technologies may hold for energy customers**and energy consumers/prosumers. Consequently, throughout this research project, we plan to investigate**different use-cases in which blockchain and smart contracts technologies can be used in the electricity trading**industry. In particular, our objective is to investigate how blockchain and smart contract technologies can**enable establishing a fully decentralised energy system in which energy supply contracts are made directly**between energy producers and energy consumers, without involving a third-party intermediary, and carried out**automatically.

新兴的智能电网电力系统和能源市场的显著特征包括能源、信息和资金在消费者/产消者场所和配电网之间的双向流动。这需要新的模式来适应批发和零售层面的多边交易交换。区块链是一种用于点对点交易平台的新兴技术，** 使用分散存储来记录所有交易数据。最近，大量新的应用程序已经出现，增加了该技术的核心功能，即，交易数据的分散存储，** 通过整合机制，允许在分散的基础上进行实际交易。这些被称为“智能合约”的机制基于单独定义的规则运行，例如对数量，质量，价格的规范，使分布式供应商及其潜在客户能够自主匹配。SNC-Lavalin的电网解决方案部门有兴趣调查 ** 区块链和智能合约技术在点对点电力交易领域的应用。在整个项目中，我们将研究区块链技术和智能合约在电力点对点交易领域的潜在用途，并探索这些技术可能为能源客户和能源消费者/产消者带来的机会。因此，在整个研究项目中，我们计划调查区块链和智能合约技术可用于电力交易行业的不同用例。特别是，我们的目标是调查区块链和智能合约技术如何能够 ** 建立一个完全分散的能源系统，在该系统中，能源供应合同直接 ** 在能源生产者和能源消费者之间签订，而不涉及第三方中介，并自动执行。