Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will also need efficient price signals that motivate sustainable energy consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand and supply. In Power TAC, agents act as retail brokers in a local power distribution region, purchasing power from a wholesale market as well as from local sources, such as homes and businesses with solar panels, and selling power to local customers and into the wholesale market. Retail brokers must solve a supply-chain problem in which the product is infinitely perishable, and supply and demand must be exactly balanced at all times.

Our Power TAC public wiki is home to the developing game design and specification, along with a growing bibliography of background materials on the economics of electric power systems.

Game Specification 2012

You can access here The Power Trading Agent Competition-Game Specification 2012 the new game specification for the first official Power Trading Agent Competition, June 4th-8th, Valencia, Spain.