Peer-to-Peer EnergyTrade: A Distributed Private Energy Trading Platform
This addresses privacy and efficiency issues in peer-to-peer energy trading for smart grid users, but it is incremental as it builds on prior work.
The paper presents a proof-of-concept implementation of a Secure Private Blockchain-based framework (SPB) for energy trading on an Ethereum private network, showing that SPB reduces overheads and monetary costs for users compared to existing solutions.
Blockchain is increasingly being used as a distributed, anonymous, trustless framework for energy trading in smart grids. However, most of the existing solutions suffer from reliance on Trusted Third Parties (TTP), lack of privacy, and traffic and processing overheads. In our previous work, we have proposed a Secure Private Blockchain-based framework (SPB) for energy trading to address the aforementioned challenges. In this paper, we present a proof-on-concept implementation of SPB on the Ethereum private network to demonstrates SPB's applicability for energy trading. We benchmark SPB's performance against the relevant state-of-the-art. The implementation results demonstrate that SPB incurs lower overheads and monetary cost for end users to trade energy compared to existing solutions.