Energy + blockchain sparks new sparks and brings light to the global energy Internet

China Energy Storage Network News: Recently, the Energy + Blockchain project initiated by Yunnan Power Grid announced its latest cooperative research results. It is understood that this cooperative project is " Research on Blockchain Platform and Application Scenarios for Power Grid Enterprises ", which is committed to exploring how to connect the value chains of various industries and build a new energy ecosystem through the world's leading blockchain technology in the future energy Internet.

With the release of Document No. 9 on electricity reform and the release of a series of related policy signals, "liberalizing both ends" has gradually become the basic idea for the construction of China's electricity market trading system: the electricity sales end will be fully market-oriented, the number of participating entities will increase, and both power generation companies and power equipment companies will have the ability and possibility to extend the industrial chain; the biggest change on the power generation side is bidding for access to the grid, and the marginal cost advantages of enterprises will be fully demonstrated; the future energy Internet will also show a "seven-change" trend, namely, diversification of trading entities, diversification of trading commodities, decentralization of trading decisions, transparency of trading information, timeliness of trading time, marketization of trading management, and hierarchical trading constraints.

It is precisely because of the "seven trends" of energy Internet transactions that some potential problems will be induced, such as the diversification of subjects and commodities, which will form massive data and information, and bring about the problem of insufficient information transmission and processing capabilities; decentralized decision-making models and information transparency are prone to cause the dilemma of subject self-discipline and a crisis of trust; with the increase of subsystems, the programmed processing mechanism of the trading platform leads to long transaction time, the instant feature is concealed, and the transaction response speed lags behind market demand; the value units of various industries are different, and the market-oriented management leads to the subsystem energy circle "going its own way", and multi-energy interaction is hindered.

Compared with traditional technology systems, blockchain has three comparative advantages : First, it is relatively safe . Blockchain can ensure that transactions cannot be forged, false transactions cannot be recorded, and historical transactions cannot be modified; second, it is relatively transparent . In order to reduce the friction caused by trust, blockchain provides transparent and non-repudiated distributed data ledgers for all parties to the transaction. Compared with the traditional data being controlled by a single party in the business network, transparency is improved; third, it is relatively efficient . The smart contract of blockchain can reduce the turnover of funds and the manual reconciliation process, and the efficiency of business settlement and liquidation can be improved. And because of the exchange and circulation of data in the business network ecosystem, it provides the possibility for business innovation and innovation in the business network of the ecosystem.

Zhang Jianwen, deputy chief engineer of Yunnan Power Grid Information Center, believes that "in the energy Internet system, transactions will be diversified, decentralized and instant. In order to make transactions more convenient and low-cost, one of the future trends of energy Internet transaction models will be flat and "decentralized". From this point of view, the intersection of blockchain and energy Internet is: energy blockchain. Energy blockchain aims to interconnect a large number of energy nodes such as new power networks, oil networks, and natural gas networks composed of distributed energy collection devices , distributed energy storage devices and various types of loads. With the power system as the link, the Internet thinking and technology are used to transform the energy industry, thereby building a new energy supply and use system with horizontal multi-complementarity, vertical source-grid-load-storage coordination, and high integration of energy and information. "

Energy Internet and Energy Blockchain choose and merge with each other: Energy Internet provides a market for Energy Blockchain, realizes technical value, and Energy Blockchain promotes the upgrading of Energy Internet industry. The data and networking of information in Energy Blockchain facilitate centralized transmission and processing, and improve the system processing capacity; the encryption technology such as public and private keys of Energy Blockchain can prevent false transactions and record tampering, and facilitate the formation of transaction subject self-discipline and system credit system; the "decentralization" of blockchain can effectively improve transaction efficiency and reduce transaction costs; the main chain in the blockchain connects the value chains of various industries in series to build a new energy ecosystem.

At present, my country's power system reform is in-depth, and the main players in the power market are showing diversified development. The market system of "laws to rely on, separation of government and enterprises, standardized entities, fair transactions, reasonable prices, and effective supervision" is gradually being established. In this environment, conducting research on the blockchain platform and application scenarios of power grid enterprises will help Yunnan Power Grid to grasp the direction and stabilize the scale of capital flow in the power market environment with the power grid as the settlement subject: the clarification of the status of the settlement subject and the establishment of settlement rights can stabilize the direction and scale of capital flow from the policy level, and then grasp the business process and circulation time from the construction of settlement rules; ensure the stable operation of the power trading market and consolidate the settlement rights: unified construction Establishing a settlement system will help promote the safe, stable and rapid development of settlement business in the power trading market from an institutional perspective, clarify the status of settlement entities, and ensure the stable operation of the power trading market; fully grasp the differences in market-oriented power trading business: Under the current situation, the business development of power sales companies presents a diversified and differentiated situation. A single power sales company cannot cover all businesses, and a credible organization is needed to uniformly manage the construction of the settlement system; coordinate the rational allocation of social resources to avoid duplication of construction: The power market is in the early stages of construction, business development has yet to be improved, and there is uncertainty in settlement rules. Unified construction of the settlement system can concentrate resources and avoid internal friction caused by repeated investment of social resources.

Through the research on the power grid blockchain platform, and then focusing on the intersection of blockchain technology and energy Internet, the research on blockchain + energy Internet, namely "energy blockchain", with the power system as the link, can be said to have taken the first step in the research of the "energy blockchain" platform. Its research conclusions have guiding significance for the feasibility of "energy blockchain". At the same time, it can also lay a solid foundation for Yunnan Power Grid to carry out distributed power grid-connected transactions, power sales business with separation of transmission and distribution, and other power sales business in the future, as well as energy trading smart contracts, energy supply chain finance and other applications.

Business process optimization and business model innovation inspired by blockchain technology can help promote the transformation of organizational management science, deepen mutual trust among all parties, and build a new economic model for wealth creation. Assets such as cars, real estate, equity, property rights, copyrights, insurance policies, artworks, and even parts of our personal identity (such as health records and tax records) can be registered, traded, shared or transferred on blockchain platforms with extremely high efficiency and greatly reduced risks. Freed from the obstacles under traditional transactions, companies that were once bound by business complexity can now move forward without obstacles, and can achieve vertical or horizontal integration in business networks and / or ecosystems. As blockchain technology removes obstacles, the economic landscape will also change, and we will be able to reshape the future at a whole new speed.

Blockchain technology brings new hope for energy supply structure reform

The Global Energy Internet is a clean and efficient way of utilizing energy based on the development of Internet technology applications. While alleviating environmental pollution, it can improve resource utilization efficiency and resource integration and reorganization, and help effectively carry out energy supply-side reforms. The inherent decentralization and decentralization of blockchain can build a decentralized energy system with the following three advantages: ( 1 ) building a distributed energy trading and supply system, ( 2 ) formulating blockchain smart contracts for energy management departments, and ( 3 ) securely storing energy trading data.