Esther Mengelkamp

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the concept of a blockchain-based microgrid energy market without the need for central intermediaries, where consumers and prosumers can trade self-produced energy in a peer-to-peer fashion.

TL;DR: This work provides energy prosumers and consumers with a decentralized market platform for trading local energy generation without the need of a central intermediary and presents a preliminary economic evaluation of the market mechanism and a research agenda for the technological evaluation of blockchain technology as the local energy market’s main information and communication technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a local electricity market on which prosumers and consumers of a community are able to trade electricity directly amongst each other, which facilitates a local balance of energy supply and demand and hence reduces the need for extensive electricity transmission.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the importance of design parameters for local energy markets with an adaptive choice-based conjoint study from a customer perspective and found that economic design parameters (monthly cost and investments) are most important for German households to participate in LEMs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce demand response into local energy markets (LEMs) as a means of flexibility in residential demand that can be used to increase local self-sufficiency, decrease residual demand power peaks, facilitate local energy balances and reduce the cost of energy supply.