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Tools for Assessment of Bidding into Electricity Auctions


Steven Puller and Ross Baldick
We have developed a public domain academic grade tool to
assess the competitiveness of offers into electricity auctions.
The prototype is written in the Java language, and is released
as open-source software under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (GPL). It considers transmission constraints.
To obtain the zipped tool and example file, download:
Offer_Tool_zip
To run the tool, follow these instructions:
1. Install JRE or JDK. This is available from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
2. Unzip the zip file to directory /bidTool_0_1.
3. Go to directory /bidTool_0_1.
4. In command line mode, run "java -jar DCOPF.jar ercotCase20080402Demo", which runs
the case ercotCase20080402Demo.txt located in /bidTool_0_1/DATA. If you do not specify
the case name by running "java -jar DCOPF", this will run the testCase.txt by default.
5. The output report is generated in /bidTool_0_1/DATA/ercotCase20080402Demo_output.txt,
and the data for plotting is stored in /bidTool_0_1/DATA/plotData.txt.
6. Open /bidTool_0_1BRPlot.html, which will plot the marginal cost and ex-post best offer
curves specified in /bidTool_0_1/DATA/plotData.txt.

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