Agent-Based Services for Building Markets in Distributed Energy Environments

Abstract

The safe integration of renewable energy sources requires distributed energy environments provided with reactive and  dynamic  management  systems.  To  this  end,  recent  works propose  creating  energy  micromarkets  in  which  producers  and consumers  are capable  of  negotiating  their  interests  by  using autonomous  software  entities.  Despite  intelligent  agents  are widely  accepted  as  a  suitable  technology  for  undertaking thistask,  we  point  out  that  their  adoption  entails  important  risks. Specifically,  this  paper  highlight  a  set  of  technological  and structural challenges that  implies the integration of agents  with distributed  energy  networks  and,  as  a  result, it  concludes  that new  contributions  are  necessary  in  the  modelling  field  for building  more  flexible,  reactive  and  scalable  networks.  With this  aim,  we  put  forward  a  new  agent-based  and  services-oriented   model   called   Agency   Services   that,   apart   from overcoming most   of   the   challenges   faced   by   the   current proposals, gives new capabilities.