Blockchain-Based Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of a Decentralized Controller for Local Energy Communities

Marco Galici, Mario Mureddu, Emilio Ghiani () and Fabrizio Pilo
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Marco Galici: Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo, 2-09123 Cagliari, Italy
Mario Mureddu: Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo, 2-09123 Cagliari, Italy
Emilio Ghiani: Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo, 2-09123 Cagliari, Italy
Fabrizio Pilo: Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo, 2-09123 Cagliari, Italy

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-25

Abstract: The development of local energy communities observed in the last years requires the reorganization of energy consumption and production. In these newly considered energy systems, the commercial and technical decision processes should be decentralized in order to reduce their maintenance costs. This will be allowed by the progressive spreading of IoT systems capable of interacting with distributed energy resources, giving local sources the ability to be optimally coordinated in terms of network and energy management. In this context, this paper presents a decentralized controlling architecture that performs a wide spectrum of power system optimization procedures oriented to the local market management. The controller framework is based on a decentralized genetic algorithm. The manuscript describes the structure of the tool and its validation, considering an automated distributed resource scheduling for local energy markets. The simulation platform permits implementing the blockchain-based trading process and the automated distributed resource scheduling. The effectiveness of the tool proposed is discussed with a hardware-in-the-loop case study.

Keywords: energy community; local energy market; real-time simulation; Internet of Things; decentralized optimization; genetic algorithm; blockchain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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