On-line reinforcement learning for optimization of real-life energy trading strategy

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Main Authors: Lepak, Łukasz, Wawrzyński, Paweł
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Published: 2023
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author Lepak, Łukasz
Wawrzyński, Paweł
author_facet Lepak, Łukasz
Wawrzyński, Paweł
contents An increasing share of energy is produced from renewable sources by many small producers. The efficiency of those sources is volatile and, to some extent, random, exacerbating the problem of energy market balancing. In many countries, this balancing is done on the day-ahead (DA) energy markets. This paper considers automated trading on the DA energy market by a medium-sized prosumer. We model this activity as a Markov Decision Process and formalize a framework in which an applicable in real-life strategy can be optimized with off-line data. We design a trading strategy that is fed with the available environmental information that can impact future prices, including weather forecasts. We use state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to optimize this strategy. For comparison, we also synthesize simple parametric trading strategies and optimize them with an evolutionary algorithm. Results show that our RL-based strategy generates the highest market profits.
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spellingShingle On-line reinforcement learning for optimization of real-life energy trading strategy
Lepak, Łukasz
Wawrzyński, Paweł
Machine Learning
Trading and Market Microstructure
An increasing share of energy is produced from renewable sources by many small producers. The efficiency of those sources is volatile and, to some extent, random, exacerbating the problem of energy market balancing. In many countries, this balancing is done on the day-ahead (DA) energy markets. This paper considers automated trading on the DA energy market by a medium-sized prosumer. We model this activity as a Markov Decision Process and formalize a framework in which an applicable in real-life strategy can be optimized with off-line data. We design a trading strategy that is fed with the available environmental information that can impact future prices, including weather forecasts. We use state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to optimize this strategy. For comparison, we also synthesize simple parametric trading strategies and optimize them with an evolutionary algorithm. Results show that our RL-based strategy generates the highest market profits.
title On-line reinforcement learning for optimization of real-life energy trading strategy
topic Machine Learning
Trading and Market Microstructure
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16266