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Title Peer to Peer Business Model Approach for Renewable Energy Cooperatives
ID_Doc 74770
Authors Denktas, B; Pekdemir, S; Soykan, G
Title Peer to Peer Business Model Approach for Renewable Energy Cooperatives
Year 2018
Published
DOI
Abstract Power and energy systems are undergoing unprecedented change driven by many factors like global warming, digitalization, new sorts of renewable energy sources (RESs). Many countries incentivize the installation of RESs with subsidies and programs like a high rate of feed-in tariffs. However, these promotions are not sustainable. Some countries started to decrease the feed-in tariffs due to the cost of RESs are in decline. Since they want to reduce the volatility risk of small-scale RESs, they also don't give capacity for unlicensed plants. Renewable energy cooperatives (RECs) emerge as an alternative to encourage the installation of unlicensed RESs. They can be defined as prosumers in the system. Also, a peer to peer energy trading between cooperatives within the local community might increase the profit of cooperative in the same region. Because of this, the peer to peer business model approach is proposed in this study. The smart contract by using blockchain technology is used in this proposed approach due to making transactions faster, and to provide a dynamic market and blockchain is used to make transactions data secure.
Author Keywords Blockchain; renewable energy cooperative; peer to peer trading; smart contracts
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
EID WOS:000457681100219
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Energy & Fuels; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Energy & Fuels; Engineering
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