Blockchain-based data management mechanism for virtual power plants

With the gradual deepening of power-related research and the expansion of power data volume, power data-oriented research and applications have fully entered the era of big data and cloud storage. The huge amount of heterogeneous data samples also bring a huge impact on traditional data processing methods. Therefore, let each virtual power plant participate in the electricity market externally as a unified power plant, and build a blockchain structure of multiple virtual power plants in the form of a slice. The structured data such as the basic information of the account is stored in the enterprise database in a relational data model and managed through an identity verification policy. The mechanism of off-chain negotiation and on-chain settlement is used to manage the transaction data. The management mechanism is further improved by combining an encryption scheme and a security evaluation method. After the practical test of the management mechanism, the time consumed for one and two parallel operations reaches 23 seconds and 8 seconds, and 4 seconds and 9 seconds or less for three and four times, respectively. In the case of nine users' data distortion, the root means the square value of the blockchain data management mechanism is only 0.82, which is significantly less than 1. It shows that the blockchain-based data management mechanism, as a new generation of power data management means, can not only effectively integrate the power grid information data and relieve the pressure of the power grid system, but also avoid data leakage and strengthen power security. © 2023 Xudong Zhang et al.;published by Sciendo.