Game Bidding and Benefit Allocation Strategies for Virtual Power Plants With Multiple New Market Entities Based on Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
At present,there are numerous but small-scaled new market entities.In order to improve the competitiveness,these market entities usually form alliances to participate in market games in the form of virtual power plants.A fair benefit distribution is the foundation for maintaining the stability of the alliances.Therefore,this article proposes a virtual power plant with multi-new market entity game bidding and the benefit allocation strategies.First,considering that the virtual power plants with multi-new market entity and the traditional units are both price influencers,a trading model of the joint energy and reserve auxiliary service market is constructed,and the multi-agent reinforcement learning(MADDPG)algorithm is used to solve the model in an incomplete information market environment.Secondly,the distributed alliance construction method is used to obtain the optimal multi-new market entity alliance structure.To solve the dimensionality disaster in the benefit allocation,the Monte Carlo approximation of the Sharpley value is introduced to reasonably allocate the excess returns of various new market entities within the virtual power plant.Finally,the example analysis shows that the proposed method gives the optimal alliance structure and the bidding strategies for the virtual power plants with multi-new market entity to participate in the joint energy and ancillary services market.It improves the calculation speed of excess return distribution under the premise of ensuring the accuracy,and improves the returns of all new market entities.
virtual power plantjoint energy and auxiliary services marketmulti-agent reinforcement learningoptimal alliance structureShapley value