Author(s): Praça, Isabel ; Andrade, André ; Morais, H. ; Cardoso, Marilio ; Ramos, Carlos ; Vale, Zita
Date: 2008
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/1362
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Subject(s): Intelligent Agents; Simulation; Negotiation; Decision-making; Intelligent Agents; Intelligent Agents; Simulation; Simulation; Negotiation; Negotiation; Decision-making; Decision-making
All over the world Distributed Generation is seen as a valuable help to get cleaner and more efficient electricity. To get negotiation power and advantages of scale economy, distributed producers can be aggregated giving place to a new concept: the Virtual Power Producer. Virtual Power Producers are multitechnology and multi-site heterogeneous entities. Virtual Power Producers should adopt organization and management methodologies so that they can make Distributed Generation a really profitable activity, able to participate in the market. In this paper we address the development of a multi-agent market simulator – MASCEM – able to study alternative coalitions of distributed producers in order to identify promising Virtual Power Producers in an electricity market.
