ADAPT

Adaptive AI-supported Simulation Toolbox for Energy Markets Design

Period	Sep 2025 – Aug 2028
Funding	Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Project partners	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geotechnologies IEG University of Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences Aachen

The goal of the ADAPT project is to develop a powerful yet user-friendly simulation platform to design and analyze the electricity markets of the future. The project builds upon the established ASSUME framework and extends it with several crucial elements:

Adaptive market agent: An intelligent agent that assumes the role of the regulator and can autonomously optimize market rules to increase the security of supply and efficiency.
Simulation of distribution grids: New tools for the detailed modeling of local energy systems to investigate the role of distribution system operators (DSOs) and local flexibilities.
Modeling of sector coupling: The integration of the heating and transportation sectors into the simulations.
High user-friendliness: A key focus is on making the platform accessible to researchers with limited programming skills.

The developed tools will be tested using three central use cases:

Dynamic grid charges
Capacity mechanisms
A potential split of the German bidding zone

The close involvement of stakeholders ensures that the platform is developed to be practical and tailored to user needs.

People

Gunter Grimm

Project manager

Further information

Project description at EnArgus: https://www.enargus.de/pub/bscw.cgi/?op=enargus.eps2&q=i-autonomous&v=10&s=14&id=477163365

Website of related previous project: https://assume-project.de/