Evaluating Government’s Policies on Promoting Smart Metering Diffusion in Retail Electricity Markets via Agent-Based Simulation

Evaluating Government’s Policies on Promoting Smart Metering Diffusion in Retail Electricity Markets via Agent-Based Simulation / Tao Zhang and William J. Nuttall, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Volume 28, Issue 2, pp. 169-186. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5885.2011.00790.x/pdf In this paper, we develop an agent-based model of a market game in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the U.K. government’s 2008–2010 policy on promoting smart metering in the U.K. r...