Trustworthy Campus Energy Trading System [信頼できるキャンパス エネルギー取引システム]

Energy trading policies are revolutionizing the efforts and policies geared toward addressing global carbon emissions and protecting the environment. Smart grids and electric vehicles (EVs) are energy-saving tools for efficient power management. Although EVs can act as both energy consumers and suppliers, the effort required to balance the energy supply and demand in typical centralized trading systems inevitably reduces trading reliability. Another challenge is distributing EVs’ energy rationally to achieve better demand response and energy utilization. This project investigates a secure block-chain-based energy trading system using the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network. The system combines a blockchain of energy exch
anges and a blockchain of EVs with the distinct transmission of energy requests and offers.

  • Y. Liang, Z. Wang and A. Ben Abdallah, "Robust Vehicle-to-Grid Energy Trading Method Based on Smart Forecast and Multi-Blockchain Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 8135-8153, 2024, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3352631
    In the present era, energy issues are a significant concern, and the energy trading market is the crucial sector to facilitate supply-demand balance and sustainable development. For better demand response and grid balancing, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology is rapidly gaining importance in energy markets. To narrow the gap between ideal V2G goals and actual applications needs, energy trading system has to overcome the challenges of over-centralized structure, inflexible timeline adaptation, limited market scale and energy efficiency, excessive feedback time costs, and low rate of economic return. To address these issues and ensure a secure energy market, we propose a decentralized intelligent V2G system called V2G Forecasting and Trading Network (V2GFTN) to achieve efficient and robust energy trading in campus EV networks. A multiple blockchain structure is proposed in V2GFTN to ensure trading security and data privacy between energy requests and offers. V2GFTN also integrates energy forecasting functions for EVs with a smart energy trading and EV allocation mechanism called SRET so that the EVs with driving tasks can supply their extra power back to the grid and achieve higher energy efficiency and economic profit. Through rigorous experimentation and compared with equivalent studies, V2GFTN system has demonstrated higher economic profit and energy demand fill rate by up to 1.6 times and 1.9 times than the state-of-the-art V2G approaches.
  • Y. Liang, Z. Wang and A. Ben Abdallah, "V2GNet: Robust Blockchain-Based Energy Trading Method and Implementation in Vehicle-to-Grid Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 131442-131455, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3229432.
    Nowadays, energy trading policies are revolutionizing the efforts and policies geared toward addressing global carbon emissions and protecting the environment. Smart grids and electric vehicles (EVs) are energy-saving tools for efficient power management. Although EVs can act as both energy consumers and suppliers, the effort required to balance the energy supply and demand in typical centralized trading systems inevitably reduces trading reliability. Another challenge is distributing EVs’ energy rationally to achieve better demand response and energy utilization. To manage the market securely and efficiently, we propose V2GNet, a blockchain-based energy trading system using the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network. The system combines a blockchain of energy exchanges (BoE) and a blockchain of EVs (BoEV), with the distinct transmission of energy requests and offers. Furthermore, to consider energy management from an economic viewpoint, we address the attack issue by proposing a robust energy trading (RET) algorithm. The proposed system demonstrates high robustness to malicious attacks. Our experimental results show that the RET reduces 30% energy loss when 20% of consumers are attacked. Moreover, malicious exchanges are excluded progressively from the trading market during each trading round. Also, the RET algorithm achieves better energy fulfillment and higher profit compared to state-of-the-art approaches.


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