Privacy and Auditability in the Local Energy Market of an Energy Community with Homomorphic Encryption

【Author】 Strepparava, Davide; Rosato, Federico; Nespoli, Lorenzo; Medici, Vasco

【Source】ENERGIES

【影响因子】3.252

【Abstract】The world of electrical distribution is rapidly changing and is seeing more and more distributed production and steerable flexibilities. Energy communities are seen as an important innovation for the optimization of electrical consumption at a local level. A central need of the local energy markets inside energy communities is the exchange and circulation of production and consumption data, and therefore the problem of the potential leak of sensitive data must be addressed. In this paper, the context of the Lugaggia Innovation Community, a Self Consumption Community pilot project in southern Switzerland, is introduced together with the blockchain framework that was created for its internal market interaction and the rules designed for its local energy market. A cryptographic protocol from the literature, based on homomorphic encryption, is then proposed for the anonymous aggregation of production and consumption data of the individual households at a resolution of 15 min. The computational overhead associated with the protocol is then experimented and analyzed.

【Keywords】energy community; smart grid; local energy markets; homomorphic encryption

【发表时间】2022 AUG

【收录时间】2022-08-28

【文献类型】理论模型

【主题类别】

区块链技术-核心技术-加密算法