Power TAC- Power Trading Agent Competition

WILL YOUR BROKER WIN THE 2021 POWER TAC TOURNAMENT?
This year’s theme is 'the more, the merrier'! Who knows whether restrictions on large gatherings will hold throughout the year, but in the virtual world, everyone is welcome to the party.

Notices on updates to the competition will be released soon. In the meantime, spread the word about Power TAC to potential competitors far and wide and let’s make this year’s competition the biggest yet!

COMPETITION SCHEDULE 2021
Trial rounds in June, July, and August help broker developers work out communication and interaction issues:

Trial 1: June 21 – 25

Trial 2: July 26 – 30

Trial 3 : August 23 – 27

Qualifying : September 20 – October 1

Finals : October 11 – 27

Visit www.powertac.org for more info!

Home Power TAC is a retail energy trading simulation platform using AI and machine learning to predict market behaviour in the transition to renewable energy.

The 2020 tournament has finished, and we would like to congratulate the TUC TAC team for their outstanding performance! The Mertacor (2nd place) and Crocodile (3rd place) teams clearly gave them some strong competition. Congratulations are also in order to all the teams for their perseverance and hard work in building their agents and keeping them running through a long tournament schedule.

We are sure everyone will be digging into the logs to figure out how the TUC TAC team pulled it off. We hope to hear from them at the upcoming PASS workshop, and we would also like to hear from the other teams about what worked and perhaps what could be improved. We are planning a panel on the future of Power TAC at the workshop and look forward to your thoughts.

Thanks again for a great tournament and we are looking forward to hearing from you at the PASS workshop on 2-3 December.

John and Wolf

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Power TAC people - we're in the news again!

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This time in English. Thank you all for making Power TAC a growing contribution to a sustainable energy future!

Power TAC: The AI Platform Showing How a 100% Renewable Energy World Might Actually Work | Energy In theory, a world powered entirely by renewables is possible. But given the natural fluctuations of the wind, waves and sun, how can we ensure that the green energy market of the future is safe, fair and truly sustainable? An open-source project Power TAC is using machine learning simulations to he...

Power TAC people - you’re famous!

Power TAC: The AI Platform Showing How a 100% Renewable Energy World Might Actually Work | Energy In theory, a world powered entirely by renewables is possible. But given the natural fluctuations of the wind, waves and sun, how can we ensure that the green energy market of the future is safe, fair and truly sustainable? An open-source project Power TAC is using machine learning simulations to he...

We're getting famous! English version hopefully forthcoming...

PowerTAC: Eine Open-Source-Plattform zeigt, wie ein nachhaltiger Energiemarkt global funktionieren könnte | Energie Erneuerbare Energien unterliegen Schwankungen – wie bringt man trotzdem Sicherheit in den Energiemarkt? Das Kölner Open-Source-Projekt PowerTAC nutzt maschinelles Lernen für Simulationen und Prognosen und hilft so, ein besseres Verständnis für die Gestaltung des komplexen Energiemarkts zu erha...

sign up for the 2020 Power TAC tournament! Trials begin April 20th...

Tournament Power TAC tournament teams attract global digital transformation talent to build complex broker and customer models you can customize.

Great blog by Professor Wolf Ketter - did you know you can buy a tweeting fridge? But did you also know your smart meter is not quite smart enough for the transition to renewable energy?

Are our smart meters smart enough? A field study in Switzerland of blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer electricity trading reveals an obstacle to a sustainable energy future.

Congratulations to the winning teams of the PowerTAC 2019 competition: Mertacor, AgentUDE and CrocodileAgent!!! What a great competition and wonderful contributions to the PASS workshop last week!

PASS 2019 on July 25th and 26th: It's still time to join in!

PASS Workshop Dinner together with the summer school and the pass participants 18:30: Welcome and Drinks at the brewhouse „Gaffel am Dom / Domstube“ with a view of the cathedral 19:00: Opening Buffet - special hot and cold regional (vegetarian) food