TariffAnalysis 2018Finals Game102

In Game 102, the competitors were AgentUDE, Bunnie, COLDPower18, and EWIIS3. COLDPower did not issue any tariffs, but did make some money trading in the wholesale market. Bunnie won by a large margin, although AgentUDE was far ahead in the first hours. I used the new |TariffAnalysis log analyzer to understand what happened. The report shows several things, some of which appear to be the result of misunderstanding how brokers should interact with the server.

Then in timeslot 364 (the simulation starts at timeslot 360) it issues a new set with much higher prices of 0.3/kWh. It also re-issues a new set of identical tariffs every few timeslots, paying the publication fee for each one, and without revoking the earlier ones. It gets a few subscriptions, but the only one that appears to earn a profit is the CONSUMPTION tariff from the first set. See the Game Totals at the end of the file for the summaries.
 * 1) EWI's initial tariffs all have the same fixed price of 0.18/kWh, and all of them charge a fixed 0.95/day to all subscribers regardless of energy use. It does not offer production tariffs.
 * 1) Agent UDE offers a Time-Of-Use CONSUMPTION tariff at the start, with prices varying by hour. It gets some subscriptions early on, but then loses them. This appears to be because it issues a new TOU CONSUMPTION tariff in timeslot 402 and then revokes its original CONSUMPTION tariff in timeslot 403. At this point, virtually all the customers switch over to Bunnie's simpler TOU CONSUMPTION tariff and stay there.
 * 2) Agent UDE also offers a STORAGE tariff and gets a couple of subscriptions. It also submits BalancingOrders against this tariff, which does some regulation, and at the end of the game it has earned more than its initial publication cost.
 * 3) Bunnie offers a suite of simple tariffs at the start of the game, and then leaves them alone. Its CONSUMPTION tariff accounts for most of its total earnings. Its STORAGE tariffs don't attract many subscribers, and it fails to include regulation rates or issue balancing orders against this tariff. Its SOLAR_PRODUCTION and WIND_PRODUCTION tariffs attract a good fraction of the customer population. It's hard to see the profitability of these tariffs without seeing what they earned by selling this energy in the wholesale market.