Smart Computer Coordinated Markets for Planning and Supply in Electrical Power Networks

世界经济替代市场的总趋势， 经济监管的竞争，以及 国际节能意识 利用率促使这项研究的技术和经济 解除对电力传输网络管制的可行性。 该项目的重点是开发计算机协调 生产和传输的市场机制 电能和建设和交换能力 电力网络中的权利。 以前的相关工作 调查人员引起了各国政府的注意， 新西兰、英国、法国、波兰、挪威、匈牙利的代理机构 和美国 这项补助金的一个有用的副产品是 用于实验室实践演示的计算机软件 实验，以更好地告知非技术决策者， 体制改革的潜在优势。 确定结构和产权的方法 在这个行业的放松管制的形式是基于两个 放松管制的核心基本概念 场景 一是中央经济调度（区域或 国家）的管道或传输网络中的能源。 一个 经济调度中心使用优化算法， 计算价格和分配，使系统剩余最大化 正如所有分散的具体地点的投标所揭示的那样， 剂. 这个想法是联合收割机的协调优势， 集中化与分散化的信息优势 所有制 权力下放本身不能很好地满足 市场竞争具有复杂的相互依赖性， 电力网络的特征。 第二个核心概念 一个重组是共同租赁或共同拥有的能力 权利的“自然垄断”的网络元素， 机会交换这些权利作为代理人的情况 变化 研究方法是控制的 实验室实验 该实验室被用作试验台， 研究价格的性能和均衡特性- 分配机制太难正式建模， 非合作博弈

The general trend in the world economy to substitute markets and competition for economic regulation, and the heightened international consciousness for energy efficient resource utilization motivate this study of the technical and economic feasibility of deregulating electric power transmission networks. The project focuses on the development of computer coordinated market mechanisms for the generation and transmission of electrical energy and for the building and exchange of capacity rights in the power network. Previous related work by the investigators has attracted the attention of various government agencies in New Zealand, England, France, Poland, Norway, Hungary and the United States. A useful byproduct of this grant is computer software for hands-on laboratory demonstration experiment to better inform non-technical decision makers of the potential advantages of institutional reform. The approach taken to defining the structure and property rights in the deregulated form of this industry is based on two fundamental concepts that are at the core of a deregulation scenario. The first is central economic dispatch (regional or national) of energy in pipeline or transmission networks. An economic dispatch center uses optimization algorithms that compute prices and allocations so as to maximize system surplus as revealed in the dispersed location-specific bids of all agents. The idea is to combine the coordination advantages of centralization with the informational advantages of decentralized ownership. Decentralization cannot alone serve well the needs of competition in markets that have the complex interdependencies that characterize power networks. The second concept at the core of a restructure is cotenancy or joint ownership of capacity rights to "natural monopoly" elements of the network, and the opportunity to exchange these rights as agents' circumstances change. The research methodology is that of the controlled laboratory experiment. The laboratory is used as a test bed to examine the performance and equilibrium properties of price- allocation mechanisms far too difficult to model formally as noncooperative games.