Figure 2.

A model for a P2P electricity trading market, in which each peer of the network is connected to one another through a cloud P2P platform provided by a third party

Although all the financial settlements and negotiations are conducted in the virtual layer (P2P platform), the actual transfer of electricity between prosumers is done through the physical layer of the network, that is, the distribution network. All the images used in this figure have been taken from royalty free image Website: https://pixabay.com/.