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On the Stability, Economic Efficiency, and Incentive Compatibility of Electricity Market Dynamics

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Title: On the Stability, Economic Efficiency, and Incentive Compatibility of Electricity Market Dynamics
Authors: Pengcheng You, Yan Jiang, Enoch Yeung, Dennice F. Gayme, Enrique Mallada
Source: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 70:6815-6830
Publication Status: Preprint
Publisher Information: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: FOS: Economics and business, 0209 industrial biotechnology, General Economics (econ.GN), Optimization and Control (math.OC), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, FOS: Mathematics, 02 engineering and technology, 16. Peace & justice, Mathematics - Optimization and Control, Economics - General Economics
Description: This paper focuses on the operation of an electricity market that accounts for participants that bid at a sub-minute timescale. To that end, we model the market-clearing process as a dynamical system, called market dynamics, which is temporally coupled with the grid frequency dynamics and is thus required to guarantee system-wide stability while meeting the system operational constraints. We characterize participants as price-takers who rationally update their bids to maximize their utility in response to real-time schedules of prices and dispatch. For two common bidding mechanisms, based on quantity and price, we identify a notion of alignment between participants' behavior and planners' goals that leads to a saddle-based design of the market that guarantees convergence to a point meeting all operational constraints. We further explore cases where this alignment property does not hold and observe that misaligned participants' bidding can destabilize the closed-loop system. We thus design a regularized version of the market dynamics that recovers all the desirable stability and steady-state performance guarantees. Numerical tests validate our results on the IEEE 39-bus system.
Document Type: Article
ISSN: 2334-3303
0018-9286
DOI: 10.1109/tac.2025.3589447
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.05811
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05811
Rights: IEEE Copyright
arXiv Non-Exclusive Distribution
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....0c48b3fdfa74ee841d46256d7f82e675
Database: OpenAIRE
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ISSN:23343303
00189286
DOI:10.1109/tac.2025.3589447