Stochastic Market Auction Redesigned Trading System (SMARTS)
Technology Description:
The Energy Trading Analytics team will redesign a novel, state-of-the-art stochastic market tool to restructure wholesale real-time energy and reserve markets for improved information aggregation, reliability and security, and consumer choice. The design will be coupled with intelligent energy-portfolio risk management tools that enable consumers to prioritize flexible demand assets (e.g., air conditioners, water heaters, energy storage) to offer flexibility into markets as reliable resources. This project will evaluate the risk and performance of the proposed market trading system and conduct simulation and pre-pilot tests to demonstrate the approach in the PJM Interconnection, the world’s largest wholesale electricity market. The redesigned market trading system will advance price-responsive risk management, foster robust decentralized decision making for real-time operations and operational planning under uncertainty, and attract innovation and investment opportunities. The proposed approach will result in the evolution toward an innovative market trading platform supported by intelligent energy-portfolio risk management tools, leveraging emerging distributed resources, storage, and smart grid technologies for meeting the needs of tomorrow’s grid.
Potential Impact:
PERFORM projects will design methods and risk scores to clearly communicate the physical delivery risk of an energy asset’s offer and design grid management systems that organically capture uncertainty. These management systems will evaluate and hedge the system risk position to meet or exceed a baseline system risk index. This pursuit will achieve the following area impacts:
Security:
Optimal utilization of renewable and clean resources for all grid services improves grid reliability, reduces energy imports, and provides a sustainable path to energy independence.
Environment:
When low- or zero-emission assets provide all grid products and services, grid operations are no longer reliant on legacy, carbon-heavy centralized generation assets, which enables the grid to absorb more clean resources.
Economy:
Innovation in grid management will reduce consumer costs, increase the value of emerging technologies, and help achieve a clean and sustainable electric power sector. Merging risk techniques in power systems with those from finance and actuarial science enables further economic growth and redefines the role of electric power sector entities.
Contact
ARPA-E Program Director:
Dr. Jonathan Glass
Project Contact:
Dr. Hung-po Chao
Press and General Inquiries Email:
ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov
Project Contact Email:
hungpo.chao@et-analytics.com
Partners
Zome Energy Networks
Pennsylvania State University
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Release Date:
09/19/2019