As more consumers become ‘prosumers,’ balancing supply and demand grows increasingly complex. Through real-time electricity trading and advanced digital systems, we demonstrate how renewables can be seamlessly integrated into profitable markets. Addressing these challenges requires collaboration across academia, industry, and government to create sustainable and efficient energy solutions.

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Power TAC: A competitive economic simulation of the smart grid

Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will also need efficient price signals that motivate sustainable energy consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand and supply. The Power Trading Agent Competition (Power TAC) is a rich competitive simulation of future retail power markets. This…

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A Multiagent Competitive Gaming Platform to Address Societal Challenges

The shift toward sustainable electricity systems is one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. Decentralized production from renewable sources, electric mobility, and related advances are at odds with traditional power systems where central, large-scale generation of electricity follows inelastic consumer demand. Information systems innovations can enable new forms of dynamic electricity trading that…

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Competitive Benchmarking: An Information Systems Research Approach to Address Wicked Problems with Big Data and Analytics

Wicked problems like sustainable energy and financial market stability are societal challenges that arise from complex sociotechnical systems in which numerous social, economic, political, and technical factors interact. Understanding and mitigating these problems requires research methods that scale beyond the traditional areas of inquiry of information systems (IS) individuals, organizations, and markets and that deliver…