Comparative analysis of P2P architectures for energy trading and sharing

Jogunola, O; Ikpehai, A; Anoh, K; Adebisi, B; Hammoudeh, M; Gacanin, H; Harris, GD

Abstract

Rising awareness and emergence of smart technologies have inspired new thinking in energy system management. Whilst integration of distributed energy resources in micro-grids (MGs) has become the technique of choice for consumers to generate their energy, it also provides a unique opportunity to explore energy trading and sharing amongst them. This paper investigates peer-to-peer (P2P) communication architectures for prosumers’ energy trading and sharing. The performances of common P2P protocols are evaluated under the stringent communication requirements of energy networks defined in IEEE 1547.3-2007. Simulation results show that the structured P2P protocol exhibits a reliability of 99.997% in peer discovery and message delivery whilst the unstructured P2P protocol yields 98%, both of which are consistent with the requirements of MG applications. These two architectures exhibit high scalability with a latency of 0.5 s at a relatively low bandwidth consumption, thus, showing promising potential in their adoption for prosumer to prosumer communication.

Citation

Jogunola, O., Ikpehai, A., Anoh, K., Adebisi, B., Hammoudeh, M., Gacanin, H., & Harris, G. (2018). Comparative analysis of P2P architectures for energy trading and sharing. Energies, 11(1), 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11010062

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 26, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Dec 29, 2017
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 14, 2020
• Journal: Energies
• Publisher: MDPI
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 62
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en11010062
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/en11010062
• Related Public URLs: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies
• Additional Information: Funders : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Projects : Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Sharing—3M (Multi-times, Multi-scales, Multi-qualities); Grant Number: EP/N03466X/1