SBIR Phase I: Determination of Optimal Bidding Strategies and Nash Equilibria in Electric Power Markets

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目解决了电力行业参与者和政府监管机构面临的一个主要问题。美国和世界大部分地区的电力工业目前正处于彻底和迅速的重组时期。大部分重组的最终目标是降低电价，这将通过发展竞争性电力市场来实现。这些变化对市场参与者和市场监管者都需要新的工具。对于参与者来说，一个这样的新工具是优化他们的市场决策以实现利润最大化的能力。对于监管机构来说，需要一种新的工具来确保市场运行，而不会出现参与者滥用市场权力的情况。正如本提案将显示的那样，参与者和监管者的软件工具需求非常相似。该项目的目标是开发这样一种工具。PowerWorld公司目前的客户包括传统公用事业公司、电力营销公司、行业顾问、几个州监管委员会以及联邦能源监管委员会。这些客户中的许多人都表达了对PowerWorld扩展其产品以包括详细的市场模拟工具的强烈愿望。随着PowerWorld模拟器的进一步发展，它具有成为未来几年最有价值的新工具之一的巨大潜力。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses a major problem faced by participants and government regulators in the electrical power industry. The electric power industry in the United States and throughout much of the world is presently in a period of radical and rapid restructuring. The ultimate goal of much of this restructuring is lower prices, to be achieved through the development of competitive markets for electricity. These changes require new tools both for the market participants and for the market regulators. For the participants one such new tool is the ability to optimize their market decisions in order to maximize profit. For the regulators a new tool is needed to insure that the market operates without undue market power abuses by the participants. As will be shown in this proposal, the software tool needs of both the participants and regulators are quite similar. The goal of this project is the development of such a tool.PowerWorld Corporation's present customers include traditional utilities, power marketers, industry consultants, several state regulatory commissions, as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Many of these customers have expressed a great desire for PowerWorld to expand its products to include a detailed market simulation tool. PowerWorld Simulator, with further development, has a tremendous potential to be one of the most valuable new tools available in the coming years.