Capacity withholding in restructured wholesale power markets: An agent-based test bed study

2009 IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Li, Hongyan ^a   Tesfatsion, Leigh ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed; Capacity withholding; Demand bid price sensititivy; Dynamic 5 bus test case; Locational marginal pricing; Multi agent stochastic reinforcement learning; Restructured wholesale power markets

Indexed keywords

AMES WHOLESALE POWER MARKET TEST BED; CAPACITY WITHHOLDING; DEMAND-BID PRICE SENSITITIVY; LOCATIONAL MARGINAL PRICING; MULTI-AGENT STOCHASTIC REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; RESTRUCTURED WHOLESALE POWER MARKETS;

BUSES; COSTS; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPERATING COSTS; POWER TRANSMISSION; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; TEST FACILITIES;

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EID: 70349180695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2009.4839993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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