Shamsi, MahdiehMahdiehShamsiCuffe, PaulPaulCuffe2020-11-242020-11-242020 IEEE2020-10-01978-1-7281-2956-3http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11730The 6th IEEE International Energy Conference (EnergyCon 2020), Gammarth, Tunisia (held online due to coronavirus outbreak), 28 September - 1 October 2020This paper proposes and discusses the idea of using nascent blockchain hosted prediction markets as a decentralised crowd sourcing method for renewable energy forecasting. This method is further used as a risk management and hedging tool against volatility in weather variables they depend on. While existing approaches have been centralised by nature, with limited sources of input data and models, prediction markets allow anyone to participate in forecasting by betting on an outcome and earning profits for correct results. Since they have mercenary motivations, these participants are most likely to provide reliable and accurate information. Moreover, renewable energy producers can participate in these prediction markets to hedge against low-income periods due to poor weather conditions. This paper delivers a conceptual framework to exploit prediction markets in a blockchain platform with the aim of forecasting and hedging of renewable energy sources. The potential financial gain from applying this approach has been demonstrated through a case study for a typical small wind power producer.en© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Renewable energyBlockchainPrediction marketsConference Publication10.1109/energycon48941.2020.92364672020-11-0218/RDD/373https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/