Massimo Bertoncini

TL;DR: The results show that the blockchain based distributed demand side management can be used for matching energy demand and production at smart grid level, the demand response signal being followed with high accuracy, while the amount of energy flexibility needed for convergence is reduced.

TL;DR: A scalable second tier solution which combines the blockchain ledger with distributed queuing systems and NoSQL databases to allow the registration of energy transactions less frequently on the chain without losing the tamper-evident benefits brought by the blockchain technology is proposed.

TL;DR: An energy flexibility token is defined for digitizing the flexibility of prosumers allowing to be traded on the market as an asset and self-enforcing smart contracts for decentralized market operation including functions such as the placement of flexibility bids/offers, trading session management, or energy and financial settlement of energy flexibility transactions.

TL;DR: The results show that DCs have a significant amount of energy flexibility which may be shifted and traded to interested stakeholders thus allowing them to gain new revenue streams not foreseen before.

TL;DR: Numerical simulations results considering traces of an operational DC indicate the great potential of the proposed technique for supporting DCs participation in Smart Demand Response programs.