MASTER THESIS Nr. 605 VISUALIZATION MODULE FOR A SIMULATION PLATFORM FOR POWER TRADING

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MASTER THESIS Nr. 605VISUALIZATION MODULE FOR A
SIMULATION PLATFORM FOR POWER TRADING

• Tomislav Briševac

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Outline

• Electricity market
• Power Trading Agent Competition (PowerTAC)
• Power TAC overview
• Power TAC Visualizer 2013
• Conclusion and further work

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Electricity market

• electricity a produced good which can be traded
• trading takes place in an electricity market
• main entities
• producers (generation companies)
• electricity retailers
• end customers
• consumers
• producers
• prosumers

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Power Trading Agent Competition

• by 2020, around 35 of the total energy demand in
  the EU will be generated by green energy
  resources
• question raised market response?
• answer Power Trading Agent Competition (Power
  TAC)
• Power TAC
• competitive simulation environment which models
  electricity market
• explores potential strategic, competitive or
  collusive behavior of market participants

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Power TAC overview

• basic time unit timeslot 1 day
• competition 1440 timeslots
• central entities brokers (intelligent agents)
• goal make highest profit

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Power TAC project

• 6 universities
• University of Zagreb contribution
• Power TAC Visualizer
• CrocodileAgent

Power TAC Visualizer 2012
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013

• architecture mostly inherited from Visualizer
  2012
• two modules
• front-end module
• back-end module
• new components
• Metro UI
• HighCharts

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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 design

• key performance indicators (KPIs)
• brokers success in different game segments
• identifying game segments in which brokers
  performance could be improved
• multiple modules
• tasks
• high level overview
• enhanced analysis
• push mechanism

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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 data representation (1)

• spider chart
• high level overview of different game parts

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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 data representation (2)

• multiple level pie chart

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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 data representation (3)

• multiple pane charts
• parallel analysis

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Conclusion and further work

• Power TAC Visualizer 2013
• enhanced game analysis
• push mechanism
• new GUI
• Further work
• more detailed game overview
• generation companies visualization
• wholesale clearing