Automated Bilateral Trading of Energy by Alliances in Multi-Agent Electricity Markets

In liberalized markets, consumers can choose their electricity suppliers or be part of an energy community. The problem with communities is that they may not have enough weight to trade in which overcome by forming coalitions. Electricity traded spot markets through bilateral contracts involving and suppliers. This paper devoted contracting, modeled as a negotiation process iterative exchange offers counter-offers. It focuses on coalitions communities. Specifically, it presents team single-agent models, where each consumer has strategies, tactics, decision models. Coalition agents are equipped intra-team strategies protocols. also describes study seller agent coalition By allying into coalition, members reduced average costs for between 2% (large consumers) 64% (small according consumption. Their levelized cost reduction was 19%. results demonstrate the power when negotiating benefit low-consumption alliance larger players.