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Evaluating Government's Policies on Promoting Smart Metering in Retail Electricity Markets via Agent Based Simulation

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  • Tao Zhang

    (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

  • William J. Nuttall

    (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

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In this paper, we develop an agent-based model of a market game in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the UK government’s 2008-2010 policy on promoting smart metering. We also consider possible supplementary strategies. With the model, we test the effectiveness of four possible strategy options and suggest their policy implications. The context of the paper is a practical application of agent-based simulation to the retail electricity market in Britain. The contribution of the research are both in the areas of policy making for electricity markets and in the methodological use of agent-based simulation for studying social complex systems involving human behaviour.
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  • Tao Zhang & William J. Nuttall, 2008. "Evaluating Government's Policies on Promoting Smart Metering in Retail Electricity Markets via Agent Based Simulation," Working Papers EPRG 0822, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
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    Keywords

    agent-based simulation; smart metering technology; the Theory of Planned Behaviour; retail electricity market;
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    JEL classification:

    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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