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Title: Electricity Market Games: How Agent-Based Modeling Can Help under High Penetrations of Variable Generation

Journal Article · · Electricity Journal

Integrating increasingly high levels of variable generation in U.S. electricity markets requires addressing not only power system and grid modeling challenges but also an understanding of how market participants react and adapt to them. Key elements of current and future wholesale power markets can be modeled using an agent-based approach, which may prove to be a useful paradigm for researchers studying and planning for power systems of the future.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
NREL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD); Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1247291
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5D00-65857
Journal Information:
Electricity Journal, Vol. 29, Issue 2; Related Information: Electricity Journal; ISSN 1040-6190
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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