Energy is a fundamental component of modern life, driving nearly all aspects of daily activities. As such, the inability to access energy when needed is a significant issue that requires innovative solutions. In this paper, we propose ED-DAO, a novel fully transparent and community-driven decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to facilitate energy donations. We analyze the energy donation process by exploring various approaches and categorizing them based on both the source of donated energy and funding origins. We propose a novel Hybrid Energy Donation (HED) algorithm, which enables contributions from both external and internal donors. External donations are payments sourced from entities such as charities and organizations, where energy is sourced from the utility grid and prosumers. Internal donations, on the other hand, come from peer contributors with surplus energy. HED prioritizes donations in the following sequence: peer-sourced energy (P2D), utilitygrid-sourced energy (UG2D), and direct energy donations by peers (P2PD). By merging these donation approaches, the HED algorithm increases the volume of donated energy, providing a more effective means to address energy poverty. Experiments were conducted on a dataset to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results showed that HED increased the total donated energy by at least 0.43% (64 megawatts) compared to the other algorithms (UG2D, P2D, and P2PD).

翻译：能源是现代生活的基础组成部分，驱动着日常活动的几乎所有方面。因此，在需要时无法获取能源是一个需要创新解决方案的重要问题。本文提出ED-DAO，一种新颖的完全透明且社区驱动的去中心化自治组织（DAO），旨在促进能源捐赠。我们通过探索多种方法并依据捐赠能源的来源和资金起源对其进行分类，来分析能源捐赠过程。我们提出了一种新颖的混合能源捐赠（HED）算法，该算法允许外部和内部捐赠者共同贡献。外部捐赠是来自慈善机构和组织等实体的付款，其能源来自公用事业电网和产消者。而内部捐赠则来自拥有剩余能源的同行贡献者。HED按以下顺序优先处理捐赠：同行来源能源（P2D）、公用事业电网来源能源（UG2D）以及同行直接能源捐赠（P2PD）。通过融合这些捐赠方法，HED算法增加了捐赠能源的总量，为解决能源贫困问题提供了更有效的手段。我们在一个数据集上进行了实验以评估所提方法的有效性。结果表明，与其他算法（UG2D、P2D和P2PD）相比，HED使总捐赠能源至少增加了0.43%（64兆瓦）。