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Cooperative energy management of a community of smart-buildings: A Blockchain approach

Van Cutsem, Olivier  
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Dac, David Ho
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Boudou, Pol
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May 1, 2020
International Journal Of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

Demand Response (DR) is progressively moving from a centralized, unidirectional structure to a set of advanced decentralized mechanisms that better balance distributed supply and demand. This paper presents a decentralized cooperative DR framework to manage the daily energy exchanges within a community of Smart-Buildings, in the presence of local Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The proposed algorithm taps into the flexibility of the participants to let them decide of a day-ahead community power profile, and subsequently ensures the forecast tracking during the next day. In practice, the algorithm is fully decentralized by the Blockchain technology, that enables a trusted communication medium among the participants and enforces autonomous monitoring and billing via Smart-Contracts. With such an energy management framework, participating Smart-Buildings can together aim at a common objective, such as carbon-free resources usage or aggregated grid services, without depending on a centralized aggregator/utility. Simulations on realistic Swiss building models demonstrate that nearly all the renewable production resources could be harnessed locally through the presented framework, compared to selfish individual optimization. Under a quadratic cost of grid electricity, the considered community profile could dramatically be flattened, hence avoiding costly peaks at the grid interface. A scalability analysis shows that, considering the current public Ethereum Blockchain, the framework could handle a community size of up to 100 Smart-Buildings.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.ijepes.2019.105643
Web of Science ID

WOS:000510527500072

Author(s)
Van Cutsem, Olivier  
Dac, David Ho
Boudou, Pol
Kayal, Maher  
Date Issued

2020-05-01

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD

Published in
International Journal Of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
Volume

117

Article Number

105643

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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cooperative energy management

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smart-buildings

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smart-community

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blockchain

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demand response

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smart-contract

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linear optimization

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decentralized algorithm

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demand-side management

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optimization

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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GR-KA  
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March 3, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/166628
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