Build an application using www.D3A.io to simulate the bottom-up energy market of the future. Enable consumers to become active market prosumers, and find the new technical, regulatory and business roles of energy companies, DSOs, TSOs and regulators.

Check out the special deck for this track including the potential contract to win.

Watch the challenge deep dive video 1: https://youtu.be/uY5ACRjwY_E

Watch the challenge deep dive video 2: https://youtu.be/GCRcP5pc_UI

The energy market is transforming at an ever-increasing speed. It is decentralizing because the market is at the parity point, where generation behind the consumer’s meter is competitive to the legacy system. 

The current energy grid was not designed for the energy going two ways. It’is monopolistic, top-down and the final consumers are not considered as active market players. 

Regulators are drafting new opportunities that will enable prosumers to actively participate in the market. This transformation creates very large technical, regulatory and business challenges for all stakeholders in the market: energy companies, DSOs, TSOs, final consumers and regulators.

In this track, all stakeholders come to the table to experiment and immediately validate new ideas and solutions.

The Energy Singularity track has two bounties, for teams to choose one or two. The cash rewards of this track will be split between these 2 bounties.

Bounty 1

DSOs and utilities want to establish and participate in local, decentralized energy communities (markets): source flexibilities, ancillary services, congestion and granular grid accounting. On the market maker side, connecting the wholesale markets to a market with much smaller products and creating liquidity is the goal.

Bounty 2

On the consumer side, we see a plethora of new degrees of freedom and interaction for the final consumer/prosumer, because energy is the underlying essence that connects all businesses in society, but which has not yet been harnessed like a social network.