Title
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Bidding in Electricity Markets
Abstract
Bi-level optimization and reinforcement learning (RL) constitute the state-of-the-art frameworks for modeling strategic bidding decisions in deregulated electricity markets. However, the former neglects the market participants’ physical non-convex operating characteristics, while conventional RL methods require discretization of state and/or action spaces and thus suffer from the curse of dimensionality. This paper proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methodology, combining a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) method with a prioritized experience replay (PER) strategy. This approach sets up the problem in multi-dimensional continuous state and action spaces, enabling market participants to receive accurate feedback regarding the impact of their bidding decisions on the market clearing outcome, and devise more profitable bidding decisions by exploiting the entire action domain, also accounting for the effect of non-convex operating characteristics. Case studies demonstrate that the proposed methodology achieves a significantly higher profit than the alternative state-of-the-art methods, and exhibits a more favourable computational performance than benchmark RL methods due to the employment of the PER strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TSG.2019.2936142
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bi-level optimization,deep neural networks,deep reinforcement learning,electricity markets,strategic bidding,unit commitment
Electricity,Strategic bidding,Control engineering,Engineering,Industrial organization,Reinforcement learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
2
1949-3053
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.64
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yujian Ye1172.86
Dawei Qiu2133.09
Mingyang Sun380.64
Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos4101.39
Goran Strbac57519.95