This thesis explores the potential of introducing peer-to-peer energy trading markets. Peer-to-peer energy trading is a relatively new idea, which has become possible only with an appropriate level of development in information and communication technologies. As the idea is still at a very early stage of implementation, I have primarily been researching the economic benefits of users, which would justify the existence of a peer-to-peer energy trading market.
The first part of the thesis describes the current projects with peer-to-peer energy trading markets using various information and communication technologies. Emphasis is given to the latest blockchain technology, with its main advantage being a decentralized structure that, from the economic point of view, is the biggest threat to the existence of classical energy providers.
The second part of the thesis presents the idea of the peer-to-peer energy trading market and the design of the simulation. It also contains results of the simulation, which shows the movement of the price of electricity in the peer-to-peer market in various previously defined market conditions.
The results show a positive economic benefit for both the consumer and the producer of electrical energy. By gaining a positive economic benefit of peer-to-peer energy trading, I am convinced that this relatively new method of trading electrical energy is crucial for further development of the electrical grid, based on distributed energy generation.
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