Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the blockchain technology, and many
blockchain-based applications have been developed to take advantage of its
decentralization, transparency, fault tolerance, and strong security. In the field of smart grids,
a plethora of proposals have emerged to utilize blockchain for augmenting intelligent energy
management, energy trading, security and privacy protection, microgrid management, and
energy vehicles. Compared with traditional centralized approaches, blockchain-based …