A Coexistence Analysis of Blockchain, SCADA Systems, and OpenADR for Energy Services Provision Project Synopsis
Abstract:
Blockchain technology lets end-users regulate the power grid and create new electricity market business models. Blockchain technology’s distributed nature could help balance renewable energy penetration by implementing a Demand-Response platform. Demand-Response lets consumers respond to market signals by increasing or decreasing energy consumption, improving grid flexibility, stability, and energy resource efficiency. SCADA-controlled aggregates of loads, storage, and generating units perform Demand-Response. Regulatory changes and the spread of renewable sources are smart-gridding the entire electricity system. The Internet of Things, the modern equivalent of SCADA, can be applied to distributed and diversified assets to achieve smartness for end-user participation in regulation services. Thus, Internet of Things and blockchain, two emerging energy paradigms, have been studied for their interoperability and coexistence. SCADA system-blockchain integration literature is scarce. Indeed, studying how blockchain could coexist with legacy industrial technologies like OpenADR or SCADA could make power system blockchain adoption easier and faster. Europe uses the latter technology. This paper discusses blockchain technology and SCADA systems coexistence. To evaluate Demand-Response energy resource aggregation and relevant measured data, Hyperledger Fabric blockchain and SCADA systems are considered together. First, the two paradigms—centralized data acquisition in trusted environments and analysis via OpenADR and SCADA, and global, distributed, and secured with the blockchain—are presented. Next, an architecture for integrating SCADA and blockchain technology is proposed, along with the challenges of implementing innovative technologies DR programs.
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