Hybrid Game Trading Mechanism for Virtual Power Plant Based on Main-Side Consortium Blockchains

Abstract

With the rapid development and technological innovation in the energy market, peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading, as a decentralised and efficient trading model, has been widely studied and practically applied. However, in P2P energy transactions involving multiple prosumers, there are challenges such as information asymmetry, trust issues, and transaction transparency. To address these challenges, blockchain technology, as a distributed ledger technology, provides solutions. In this paper, we propose a blockchain technology-based prosumer–virtual power plant (VPP) two-tier interactive energy management framework to assist P2P energy transactions between multiple prosumers. In this framework, the virtual power plant acts as a leader and sets differentiated tariffs for different prosumers to equal the distribution of social welfare. The various prosumers act as followers and respond to the leader’s decisions in a cooperative manner. Blockchain’s immutability and transparency enable prosumers to participate in P2P energy trading with greater trust, share idle energy, and share revenues based on contribution. In addition, given the uncertainty of renewable energy, this paper employs a stochastic planning approach with conditional value at risk (CVaR) to describe the expected loss of VPP. Ultimately, as verified by the arithmetic simulation, the blockchain co-governance transaction model effectively supports energy coordination and optimization of complementarities while ensuring the utility of each transaction node. This model promotes the application of renewable energy in local consumption, while facilitating the innovation and sustainable development of the energy market.