Dear students,

In the lecture on market impacts of wind power this Friday, we will use a market simulator called ITEM-Game (developed by Jorge Sousa, Paulo Trigo and Paulo Marques) to give you some more practical ideas about our electricity market and perhaps - that depends on your investment decisions - also how large-scale wind power generation is affecting it. In ITEM-Game, each player represents a power company which tries to maximise its profits by appropriate investment and trading decisions. Then, ITEM-Game simulates the market results based on your decisions.

We will run ITEM-Game in groups of two students each; that means not everyone of you will need to bring her or his laptop.

If you can bring your laptop, do the following before the lecture:

• Make sure that you can connect to eduroam wifi because ITEM-Game needs internet access.
• Go to http://www.item-game.org/
• Register on the right hand side with your kth.se email address.
• Download ITEM-Game Player v2.4 and save it on your computer. Open the .jar file. If everything goes fine, you see a log-in window. If you instead see the .jar folder in an unzip-program, close that one and try Open with on the .jar folder. In the Open with dialogue choose Java. If this also does not work, you probably have not installed Java on your computer.
• Check your email for your ITEM-Game password.
• When you opened ITEM-Game Player v2.4, log-in on in the log-in window. Now, you should see a window with an empty list of games available (will start and appear in the lecture) and at the very bottom of the window it should be indicated that you are online.

At the beginning of the lecture:

• You form groups of two persons;
• Tell us the email-address that you registered for ITEM-Game;
• Connect to our game by choosing the one starting richard-scharff@ee.kth.se_*

Thanks & best regards,
Richard