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MASTER THESIS Nr. 605
VISUALIZATION MODULE FOR A
SIMULATION PLATFORM FOR
POWER TRADING
Tomislav Briševac
Zagreb, July 2013
Outline
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Electricity market
Power Trading Agent Competition (PowerTAC)
Power TAC overview
Power TAC Visualizer 2013
Conclusion and further work
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Electricity market
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electricity – a produced good which can be traded
trading takes place in an electricity market
main entities:
 producers
(generation companies)
 electricity retailers
Producers
 end customers
Retailers
End customers
 consumers
 producers
 prosumers
Wholesale market
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Retail market
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Power Trading Agent Competition
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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
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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
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6 universities
University of
Zagreb
contribution
 Power
TAC
Visualizer
 CrocodileAgent
Power TAC Visualizer 2012
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013
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architecture mostly inherited from Visualizer 2012
two modules:
 front-end
module
 back-end module
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new components:
 Metro
UI
 HighCharts
Front-end
module
JSF facelets
XHTML
JavaScript
CSS
jQuery
JSF - related
Primefaces
Back-end
module
Ajax
HighCharts
Metro UI
Spring framework
Messagess
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 design
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key performance indicators (KPIs)
 broker’s
success in different game segments
 identifying game segments in which broker’s
performance could be improved
 multiple modules
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tasks
 high
level overview
 enhanced analysis
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push mechanism
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 data
representation (1)
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spider
chart
high level
overview
of
different
game
parts
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 data
representation (2)
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multiple
level
pie chart
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013 data
representation (3)
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multiple
pane
charts
parallel
analysis
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Conclusion and further work
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Power TAC Visualizer 2013
 enhanced
game analysis
 push mechanism
 new GUI
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Further work
 more
detailed game overview
 generation companies visualization
 wholesale clearing
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