Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):
A. Goranovic, M. Meisel, L. Fotiadis, S. Wilker, A. Treytl, T. Sauter:
"Blockchain Applications In Microgrids - An overview of current projects and concepts";
Talk: 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2017,
Bejing, China;
2017-10-29
- 2017-11-01; in: "Proceedings of the 43rd annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial electronics Society IECON 2017",
IEEE INdustrial Electronics Society,
Bejing China
(2017),
ISBN: 978-1-5386-1128-9;
Paper ID PID4990565,
6 pages.
English abstract:
Since the release of Bitcoins as crypto currency, Bitcoin has played a prominent part in the media. However, not Bitcoin but the underlying technology blockchain offers the possibility to innovatively change industries. The decentralized structure of the blockchain is particularly suitable for implementing control and business processes in microgrids, using smart contracts and decentralized applications. This paper provides a state of the art survey overview of current blockchain technology based projects with the potential to revolutionize microgrids and provides a first attempt to technically characterize different start-up approaches. The most promising use case from the microgrid perspective is peer-to-peer trading, where energy is exchanged and traded locally between consumers and prosumers. An application concept for distributed PV generation is provided in this promising area.
Keywords:
Blockchain, Microgrid, P2P, Smart Contract
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2017.8217069
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_265619.pdf
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