blockchain technologies in the energy system · – bad: performance, any program logic beyond icos...

Blockchain Technologies in the Energy System

Michael Merz

On behalf of the EDA Project

What Type of Blockchain?

1. Crypto Currencies– Good: transfer and storage of value (Bitcoin, Dash, Zcash, …)

– Bad: any other application

2. Smart Contracts– Good: Crowdfunding, Co-Finance, ICOs (Ethereum)

– Bad: performance, any program logic beyond ICOs

3. Blockchains for B2B Integration– Good: Communication, data storage, integrity, consensus (HyperLedger, Tendermint,

BigChainDB, …)

– Bad: low level of application support

4. IoT Blockchains– Good: Connect a huge numbers of devices, less consensus, less integrity (IOTA, …)

– Bad: only available for a few months

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Gridchain - Austria

Participating regions

• DSO / TSO Harmonisation

• Balancing Process• Congestion

Management

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GridChain –TSO / DSO Process Synchronisation

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TSO

DSO DSO DSO DSO

Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen.

Aggregator

TSO requests balancing power from aggregators, which in turn activate load at local generators. DSOs are informed after the fact.

CHP Gen.Gen.

50 MW

5 MW

AvailableCapacity: 2 MW

5 MW

2 MW

Supplier

BGR

BGR

GridChain –TSO / DSO Process Synchronisation with Blockchain

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TSO

DSO DSO DSO DSO

Gen-2 Gen-3 Gen-4 Gen-5 Gen.-6 Gen-7 Gen-8

Aggregator

CHPGen.Gen-1

. . .

50 MW

Kapa: 2 MW Kapa: 5 MW Kapa: 6 MW

5 MW – Gen-15 MW

5 MW5 MW5 MW

Sperr-Flag!

5 MW – Gen8

OK!

OK!

The Enerchain Project„The world‘s first commodity trading platform over the blockchain“

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Challenges:- Technology- Governance- Regulation (MTF? OTF?, …)

Enerchain – 43 Participants

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„Enerchain is probably the mostinnovative project in the world ofenergy“

Ernesto Ciorra, Head of Innovation, ENEL

„Der Großhandel von Strom und Gas bietet einen klaren Anwendungsfall,

um konkrete, praktische Erfahrungen mit dieser Technologie zu sammeln“

Kilian Leykam, Vattenfall

“The possibilities with the Enerchainare endless: over-the-counter trading, balance group management, wholesale trading and much more.

Solarplaza Guide to Companies involved in Blockchain & Energy

Residual Load Supplier

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P2P Trading betweenProsumers and Consumers

• Challenges:– GDPR / Data protection

– Energy Law (EnBW, …)

– Business model

Thank you!More Information on Enerchain & Gridchain: http://enerchain.ponton.deMichael Merz merz@ponton.de

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