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A Unified Testing Platform to Mature Blockchain Applications for Grid Emulation Environments

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Blockchain technology is a relatively novel technology that can be used to develop more decentralized, autonomous and tamper-evident solutions. A feature that can aid Transactive Energy Systems to reach their goals by enabling individual actors to communicate and reach consensus with other participants in a more decentralized fashion. However, technical barriers to evaluate and adopt this type of technology within the electrical domain still exist. To facilitate this task, BLOSEM Unified Testing Platform (UTP), a DOE-sponsored, multi-lab effort intends to accelerate the development of solutions by offering a common set of reusable services that can be used to interconnect existent grid tools with blockchain services. UTP is intended to serve as development platform that can provide application engineers with the technical means to evaluate potential blockchain solutions, by enabling them to concentrate on the actual application functionalities while at the same time abstracting the connectivity and performance measurement tasks. The use of BLOSEM UTP is further demonstrated by implementing two potential use cases that are intended to validate both the feasibility of implementing these applications as blockchain-based solutions while also demonstrating the features provided by UTP.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); USDOE Office of Electricity; USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1908710
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5R00-84962; MainId:85735; UUID:0a838c91-d3a2-4811-b386-c134e6d3889d; MainAdminID:68426
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at the 2022 IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference (TESC), 2-6 May 2022, Portland, Oregon; Related Information: 82350
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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