EURO 2025 Leeds
Abstract Submission

2252. Betting vs. Trading: Learning a Linear Decision Policy for Selling Wind Power and Hydrogen

Invited abstract in session TA-46: Optimization and learning in energy and transport, stream Energy Economics & Management.

Tuesday, 8:30-10:00
Room: Newlyn 1.07

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Farzaneh Pourahmadi
Technical University of Denmark

Abstract

In this work, we develop a bidding strategy for a hybrid power plant combining co-located wind turbines and an electrolyzer, constructing a price-quantity bidding curve for the day-ahead electricity market while optimally scheduling hydrogen production. Without risk management, single imbalance pricing leads to an all-or-nothing trading strategy, which we term “betting”. To address this, we propose a data-driven, pragmatic approach that leverages contextual information to train linear decision policies for both power bidding and hydrogen scheduling. By introducing explicit risk constraints to limit imbalances, we move from the all-or-nothing approach to a “trading” strategy, where the plant diversifies its power trading decisions. We evaluate the model under three scenarios: when the plant is either conditionally allowed, always allowed, or not allowed to buy power from the grid, which impacts the green certification of the hydrogen produced. Comparing our data-driven strategy with an oracle model that has perfect foresight, we show that the risk-constrained, data-driven approach delivers satisfactory performance.

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Status: accepted


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