Multi-agent system for electricity market simulation

摘要

Electricity markets are experiencing a deep restructuring process leading, all over the world, to an open and competitive market to which electricity companies were not used. The importance of the electricity industry in nowadays society imposes this process to be taken without a decrease in power systems reliability. In this paper, the authors present the most important aspects of the electricity markets restructuring process and relate their work concerning the development of an electricity markets simulation environment. This environment is based on a multi-agent architecture, which is very suitable to this situation. The use of this tool can be of great help for all the entities acting in the electricity markets, such as producers, distributors and regulators. These entities can use this tool to evaluate the consequences of their decisions before they have to be taken in the real market.