Swiss Federal Office of Energy

DLT 4 Liberalizing Consumers

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Problem Statement

The electrical power ecosystem is going to have a fundamtental transformation. With increased renewable generation the nature of a formerly centralized power system is changing towards a more decentralized one. Hence, it appears that there is much potential for DLT matching decentralized consumers and further decentralized production, streamline inter-organization processes and automate business interfaces. This is of particular importance for an upcoming liberalization of the electricity market. Then, well known processes for supplier switching, which are carried out often manually today, need to work on a much larger scale, and most importantly integrate the small production sites of renewables (prosumers).    Obviously, the power system and the electricity market procedures are historically grown and are not easily compatible with DLT. Therefore, some analysis work has been performed in order to identify use cases that are most promising for an application with DLT. They have been listed and described in a SNV Guide (Guide 1) on DLT in power system. SNV guide 2 lays some technical fundamentals/requirements for a possible power system wide DLT solution

Obviously, the power system and the electricity market procedures are historically grown and are not easily compatible with DLT. Therefore, some analysis work has been performed in order to identify use cases that are most promising for an application with DLT. They have been listed and described in a SNV Guide (Guide 1) on DLT in power system. SNV guide 2 lays some technical fundamentals/requirements for a possible power system wide DLT solution.

Challenge

The challenge is to set a DLT POC for the supplier switching process considering but critically reflecting the SNV Guide 2 on technical requirements for a DLT solution. The DLT solution should (1) Avoid relying on any central authority; (2) Fully automate the switching process; (3) Ensure energy efficiency of the DLT solution itself (avoid proof of work); (4) set up the DLT solution as neutral as possible, i.e. no company or group of companies is in control; (5) Guarantee absolute security and reliability of the system thanks to appropriate control of participants so it can be accepted by the regulator; (6) Ensure that every market actor gets only the information that are necessary for him in the supplier switching process. Inspiration  can be found here.

 

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