%0 Generic
%A De Diego, Santiago
%A Seco, Inaki
%A Escalante, Marisa
%A Vakakis, Nikolaos
%A Alexandros, Schoinas
%A Drosou, Anastasis
%A Tzovaras, Dimitrios
%A Votis, Konstantinos
%A Thomas, Thomman
%A Colet, Alba
%A Paradell, Pol
%T A peer-to-peer verifiable and secure energy trading framework based on blockchain technology
%J Proceedings of the 2021 5th World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability, WorldS4 2021
%D 2021
%U https://hdl.handle.net/11556/5181
%X Blockchain technology is currently being adopted in several domains and applications, including the energy domain and specifically in smart grids. One of the principal applications of blockchain technology is peer-to-peer energy trading among stakeholders of smart grids, providing trusted transactions without the need of third parties. Also, e-auctions are rapidly growing as a mean of e-commerce that allows direct product bidding through the internet. One of the major issues of e-auctions is the reliance on a third-party to host the e-auction platform which not only induces extra cost and complexity of transactions, but also the third-party should be trusted by buyers and sellers, as it handles all the e-auction processes. In addition, trust may also be undermined by potential malicious sellers or buyers. This paper introduces a blockchain-based energy trading framework based on a sealed bid auction type to offer a safe, trusted and privacy preserving energy exchange mechanism between EPES stakeholders of an islanded part of the grid that constitute an energy community, developed in context of the SDN-microSENSE. Furthermore, this framework utilises blockchain solutions for monitoring the security status of smart grid devices in order to confront any transactions involving malicious parties or parties with compromised equipment.
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