Transaction-Based Peer-to-Peer Energy Management Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 8801
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Renewable energy technologies; Energy management; Energy storage; Electric vehicles; Simulation and modelling; High-temperature superconductivity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Power systems are undergoing a fundamental transition due to the rapid adoption of distributed energy resources, including photovoltaic generation, electric vehicles, home batteries, and heat pumps. When combined with consumer-level communications and control, these resources allow previously passive consumers to become ‘prosumers’—consumers who can proactively manage their consumption, production, and storage of energy.
Recently, there has been significant interest in the potential for new transaction-based peer-to-peer energy management systems to integrate prosumer flexibility into power system operations. These systems offer advantages in terms of openness, transparency, and autonomy. At the same time, they introduce new challenges, particularly for managing uncertainty and network constraints, which have traditionally required aggregation and centralised coordination.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the art research, solutions, and analysis in the field of transaction-based peer-to-peer energy management systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Communication architectures
- Computational complexity and scalability
- Coordination between energy trading platforms
- Data privacy and security
- Electricity market regulations
- Energy access and distributional issues
- Energy reliability
- Game-theoretic analysis
- Market mechanism design
- Microgrid trading platforms
- Modelling distributed energy resource flexibility
- Modelling prosumer preferences and behaviours
- Network costs and externalities
- New business models
- New energy and/or flexibility products
- Pilot programs and field tests
- Uncertainty and network constraints
Prof. Malcolm D McCulloch
Dr. Thomas Morstyn
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Blockchain
- Energy trading
- Flexibility
- Game theory
- Market design
- Multi-sided platforms
- Peer-to-peer
- Prosumer
- Smart grid
- Transactive energy
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