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

Grant Johnson; D. Jonathan Sebastian-Cardenas; Sivasathya Pradha Balamurugan; Nor Harun; Monish Mukherjee; Michael Blonsky; Tony Markel; Beverly Johnson

doi:10.1109/TESC53336.2022.9917254

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

Grant Johnson, D. Jonathan Sebastian-Cardenas, Sivasathya Pradha Balamurugan, Nor Harun, Monish Mukherjee, Michael Blonsky, Tony Markel, Beverly Johnson

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Abstract

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 decentralized fashion. However, technical barriers to evaluate and adopt this type of technology within the electrical domain still exist. To facilitate this task, Blockchain for Optimized Security and Energy Management (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. The UTP is intended to serve as a 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 functionality while at the same time abstracting the connectivity and performance measurement tasks. The versatility of UTP is further demonstrated by integrating two use cases to validate the feasibility of implementing these applications as blockchain-based solutions while also demonstrating the UTP features.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TESC53336.2022.9917254 https://doi.org/10.1109/TESC53336.2022.9917254
State	Published - 2022
Event	2022 IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference, TESC 2022 - Portland, United States Duration: 2 May 2022 → 6 May 2022

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Conference	2022 IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference, TESC 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	2/05/22 → 6/05/22

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5R00-82350 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5R00-84962

Keywords

Blockchain co-simulation
Blockchain for TES applications
FERC order 2222

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Johnson, G., Sebastian-Cardenas, D. J., Balamurugan, S. P., Harun, N., Mukherjee, M., Blonsky, M., Markel, T., & Johnson, B. (2022). A Unified Testing Platform to Mature Blockchain Applications for Grid Emulation Environments. Paper presented at 2022 IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference, TESC 2022, Portland, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TESC53336.2022.9917254, https://doi.org/10.1109/TESC53336.2022.9917254

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