Integrating Virtual Power Producers into MASCEM Simulator

摘要

The future vision of the sector considers many decentralized players. Distributed energy resources will provide a significant amount of the electricity generation and will be a normal profitable business, without the need of government incentives and subsidies. In the new decentralized grid, customers will be among the many decentralized players and may even help to co-produce the required energy services such as demand-side management and load shedding. Customers will have a choice to select and collaborate with their preferred supplier. So, they will gain the opportunity to be more active market players. In this paper we propose the improvement of MASCEM, a multi-agent simulation tool to study negotiations in electricity spot markets based on different market mechanisms and behavior strategies, in order to take account of decentralized players such as distributed energy resources. With this improvement other features, such as local producers' agreements, coalitions formation and its effects on the market, may also be analyzed.