Privacy Preserving and Collusion Resistant Energy Sharing

Abstract

Energy has been increasingly generated or collected by different entities on the power grid (e.g., universities, hospitals and households) via solar panels, wind turbines or local generators in the past decade. With local energy, such electricity consumers can be considered as “microgrids” which can simultaneously generate and consume energy. Some microgrids may have excessive energy that can be shared to other power consumers on the grid. To this end, all the entities have to share their local private information (e.g., their local demand, local supply and power quality data) to each other or a third-party to find and implement the optimal energy sharing solution. However, such process is constrained by privacy concerns raised by the microgrids. In this paper, we propose a privacy preserving scheme for all the microgrids which can securely implement their energy sharing against both semi-honest and colluding adversaries. The proposed approach includes two secure communication protocols that can ensure quantified privacy leakage and handle collusions.