The impact of blockchain technology on the role of consumers in the electricity system in the electricity legal system of Iran and the European Union

One of the most important legal issues in the electricity supply chain is how to activate consumers who start producing electricity in the electricity market. At the time of writing, the presence and activity of electricity consumers in the Iranian electricity market has been very passive. Because their role as independent market participants has been flawed or not facilitated. How Blockchain technology can help customers in the lowest position in the electricity supply chain in Iran to have an active presence in the electricity sector as independent market participants? What legal and political consequences will follow the application of blockchain technology in the electricity industry in the country?

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Using emerging technologies such as Blockchain, which uses a peer-to-peer trading method, in addition to activating consumers in the electricity market, the idea of creating an electricity market with the presence of consumers can be pursued. Transactions are now facilitated by third parties, suppliers, and system operators whose primary task is to collect and centralize information about cargo and the production and contracting of supply and distribution services. Instead, blockchain technology provides new ways to organize decentralized people without the immediate need for an intermediary. The use of this technology requires legislative policy in order to validate these technologies, legislative policy in order to implement emerging technologies and implementation policy in order to install and use these technologies by executive agencies.