Vol 4, No 1 (2019)

Integration of Block Chain and Digital Grid Routers for Load Balancing and Bidirectional Power Flow in Microgrid

Authors:-Prakash Kerur, Dr. R.L. Chakrasali
Abstract:-In response to the situation of increasing energy demand day by day it is necessary to fulfill the requirement of consumers. The power generated by the base load plants is not sufficient to meet the demand. Therefore it is necessary to introduce the distributed generation to meet the demand. The government is promoting renewable energies such as solar or wind power plant installation because of green energy. The renewable-energy penetration and controlling is challenging task in centralized power distribution. To find the solution to this problem is essential. To overcome this problem a smart grid or micro grid concept was introduced which is one of the principal concerns of the scientific community is the energy transition and energy efficiency. In micro grid the power flow and exchange is done with group of people in a particular areas. It would optimize the energy consumption by setting consumption patterns, adapted to a specific situation, taking into account different parameters like the price, the user preferences, or the parameters of the appliances of the house. Thus a numerical management is needed to load balancing and distribution of energy. A block chain is a distributed, decentralized transaction ledger, which is owned, maintained and updated by each user. It carries peer-to-peer energy exchanges among citizens of a same microgrid, without a central control body, based on smart contracts. The digital grid router solves the problems of different renewable source integration in smart grid. . The Digital Grid divides power systems when frequency is synchronized into various sizes. Each small grid is connected asynchronously with a
digital grid router (DGR). This paper focuses on load balancing with
peer to peer transactions in microgrid using block chain and
bidirectional power flow using digital grid routers.

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