Title
A Two Stage Mechanism For Selling Random Power.
Abstract
We present a two stage auction mechanism that renewable generators (or aggregators) could use to allocate renewable energy among LSEs. The auction is conducted day- ahead. LSEs submit bids specifying their valuation per unit, as well as their real-time fulfillment costs in case of shortfall in generation. We present an allocation rule and a de-allocation rule that maximizes expected social welfare. Since the LSEs are strategic and may not report their private valuations and costs truthfully, we design a two-part payment, one made in Stage 1, before renewable energy generation level W is realized, and another determined later to be paid as compensation to those LSEs that have to be de-allocated in case of a shortfall. We proposes a two-stage Stochastic VCG mechanism which we prove is incentive compatible in expectation (expected payoff maximizing bidders will bid truthfully), individually rational in expectation (expected payoff of all participants is non-negative) and is also efficient. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such two-stage mechanism for selling random goods.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Computer Science and Game Theory
Mathematical economics,Renewable energy,Incentive compatibility,Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction,Valuation (finance),Payment,Mathematics,Social Welfare,Stochastic game
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1809.09873
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nathan Dahlin100.34
Rahul Jain2656.67