LAPSE:2023.10825
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LAPSE:2023.10825
Privacy and Auditability in the Local Energy Market of an Energy Community with Homomorphic Encryption
February 27, 2023
The world of electrical distribution is rapidly changing and is seeing more and more distributed production and steerable flexibilities. Energy communities are seen as an important innovation for the optimization of electrical consumption at a local level. A central need of the local energy markets inside energy communities is the exchange and circulation of production and consumption data, and therefore the problem of the potential leak of sensitive data must be addressed. In this paper, the context of the Lugaggia Innovation Community, a Self Consumption Community pilot project in southern Switzerland, is introduced together with the blockchain framework that was created for its internal market interaction and the rules designed for its local energy market. A cryptographic protocol from the literature, based on homomorphic encryption, is then proposed for the anonymous aggregation of production and consumption data of the individual households at a resolution of 15 min. The computational overhead associated with the protocol is then experimented and analyzed.
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energy community, homomorphic encryption, local energy markets, smart grid
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Strepparava D, Rosato F, Nespoli L, Medici V. Privacy and Auditability in the Local Energy Market of an Energy Community with Homomorphic Encryption. (2023). LAPSE:2023.10825
Author Affiliations
Strepparava D: Department of Environment Construction and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland [ORCID]
Rosato F: Department of Environment Construction and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland; Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy [ORCID]
Nespoli L: Department of Environment Construction and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland [ORCID]
Medici V: Department of Environment Construction and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland [ORCID]
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Energies
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15
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15
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5386
Year
2022
Publication Date
2022-07-26
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1996-1073
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PII: en15155386, Publication Type: Journal Article
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