Artículo de revista
Blockchain for distributed energy resources management and integration
Fecha
2022-06Registro en:
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Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
Repositorio Educativo Digital UAO
Autor
Cantillo Luna, Sergio
Moreno Chuquen, Ricardo
Chamorro, Harold R.
Sood, Vijay K.
Badsha, Shahriar
Konstantinou, Charalambos
Institución
Resumen
Power grids all over the world are transitioning towards a decentralized structure. Under
such a transition, blockchain technology is emerging as a potential solution for technical, deployment
and decentralization issues, given its security, integrity, decentralized nature and required infrastructure.
Moreover, blockchain technology offers excellent features like non-repudiation and immutability which
makes it a promising application for DER integration and management on reliability factors. In this paper,
a comprehensive review of blockchain applications for DER management and integration is presented. First,
a blockchain-based literature review of research activities in the DER integration area and related tasks
including entrepreneurial efforts is carried out. Next, the different opportunities and challenges of DER
integration and management in power grids, i.e., centralization, regulatory support, development costs are
discussed. Finally, some key research challenges and opportunities of including blockchain technology to
DER integration and management issues are presented.