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Challenge

Multi-Agent BESS Capacity Auction Strategy with AutoGen and Google Jules

This challenge focuses on building a multi-agent simulation to optimize bidding strategies for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in the newly established German capacity market. Using Microsoft's AutoGen framework, you will design a system of collaborating agents: a 'Market Analyst' to forecast demand and prices, a 'BESS Operator' to calculate state-of-health and discharge costs, and a 'Bid Strategist' to synthesize these inputs into a winning auction bid. The implementation must incorporate Google Jules for AI-assisted engineering and code generation of the underlying physics-based battery models. Participants will tackle the complexities of energy arbitrage and capacity availability requirements. The goal is to maximize revenue while adhering to strict market regulations (such as those recently announced in Germany and Poland). You will need to implement complex logic for state-of-charge (SOC) management and cycling constraints, ensuring that the agents communicate effectively to reach a consensus on the optimal bid price and volume for a 200MW/800MWh BESS facility.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Orchestrate a multi-agent system using AutoGen and Google Jules to simulate and optimize BESS participation in power capacity auctions.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

The system will be evaluated on its ability to generate bids that maximize revenue without violating battery health constraints over a 30-day simulated period.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

SOC Constraint Test

Ensures the battery never discharges below 10% SOC based on the bidding strategy.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

Revenue Efficiency

Ratio of achieved revenue to theoretical maximum revenue. • target: 0.85 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Master the implementation of multi-agent conversational patterns using AutoGen's AssistantAgent and UserProxyAgent

  • Apply Google Jules to generate and optimize thermodynamic battery degradation functions

  • Model energy market auction dynamics including clearing prices and capacity obligations

  • Integrate complex physical constraints (SOC, SOH, C-rate) into an AI-driven decision-making workflow

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic time-series data representing 15-minute interval electricity prices, grid demand, and battery telemetry (SOC, Voltage, Temperature) for a 12-month period.

Challenge setup

The system will be evaluated on its ability to generate bids that maximize revenue without violating battery health constraints over a 30-day simulated period.

Challenge input

JSON containing historical market prices and battery state

AutoGen

Enables multi-agent collaboration for complex bidding strategies.

Google Jules

Assists in coding the underlying physics and market models.

Evaluated output

JSON bid object

Evaluation checks
  • Ensures the battery never discharges below 10% SOC based on the bidding strategy.
  • Ratio of achieved revenue to theoretical maximum revenue. • target: 0.85 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: EnergyArbitrageBench
  • Revenue Efficiency target: 0.85
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Google · Required
  • Google Jules · Optional
  • AutoGen · Optional
Orchestration
  • Google Jules · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • SOC Constraint Test · Weight 1
  • Revenue Efficiency · Weight 1

Metrics

  • Revenue Efficiency · Target 0.85

Benchmarks

  • EnergyArbitrageBench
  • energy

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON containing historical market prices and battery state

    Output: JSON bid object

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • AutoGen · Orchestration
  • Google Jules · AI Engineering

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