Virtual Power Plant (VPP) provides a value-based power exchange for the independent power producers who operate decentralized, medium-scale power generating units (PGU) such as wind farms, solar parks, and combined heat and power units. To achieve an optimized monetization, a storage system, called Battery Bank, is used to save the extra power generated by flexible renewable energy. This talk will introduce a blockchain-based edge-computing framework to build an intelligent and trusted battery bank for VPP managers, aiming to distinguish evil PGU and dispatch power smartly.

Dr. Xiaoyi Fan is the CTO of Jiangxing Intelligence Inc, an edge computing startup, which has raised Series A funding, with venture investiment from Sequoia China, Baidu Ventures and Green Pine Capital Partners. He is an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia. He received B.Eng. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2013, and Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in 2018. He is a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-finance Students Abroad (2017) and the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019). His works have been published in ACM Ubicomp, e-Energy, IEEE TMC, IEEE/ACM ToN, etc. His research interests include the Internet of Things, edge computing, and deep learning.