Blockchain Technology for Security and Privacy in Energy Internet

Blockchain is an emerging technology, which can solve a series of problems of the traditional energy industry and promote its development, such as peer-to-peer transaction of distributed energy, tracking carbon emissions et al. At the same time, the application of blockchain technology brings some challenges, such as regulatory difficulties and the privacy problems. In this work, the blockchain technology in the application status of Energy Internet was briefly summarized, and the security issue and the lack of privacy protection were pointed out. By analyzing the results of other industries, some methods were summarized and suggested to meet the challenge of blockchain privacy protection in the energy Internet.