👋 Welcome to NeurIPS 2022: CityLearn Challenge

:deciduous_tree: Hello Participant,

Welcome to NeurIPS 2022: CityLearn Challenge. In this challenge, participants have to coordinate the energy consumed by each of the buildings within a simulated micro-grid.

The CityLearn Challenge 2022 provides an avenue to address energy problems by leveraging CityLearn, an OpenAI Gym environment for the implementation of AI agents for demand response. In this challenge, participants must coordinate the energy consumed by each of the buildings within a simulated micro-grid.

The challenge utilizes 1 year of operational electricity demand and generation time-series data from 20 single-family buildings that were studied for Grid integration of zero net energy communities.

This challenge is part of the NeurIPS 2022 Competition Track.


:trophy: Challenge Prizes

:medal_military: Leaderboard Prize
This challenge has a total prize pool of USD 15,000 for the third phase of the challenge.

:1st_place_medal: 1st on the leaderboard USD 8,000
:2nd_place_medal:2nd on the leaderboard USD 5,000
:3rd_place_medal:3rd on the leaderboard USD 2,000

:scientist: NeurIPS 2022 Conference

This challenge is part of the NeurIPS 2022 Competition Track.

The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems fosters the exchange of research on neural information processing systems. It is a coveted interdisciplinary conference that brings together top researchers from various domains.

The top 3 participants will present at the NeurIPS competition track workshop virtually. They will also get a chance to author a joint research paper for NeurIPS 2022 Competition Workshop.

:1st_place_medal: Community Contribution Prize

SIGEnergy is sponsoring three travel grants to ACM BuildSys or ACM e-Energy.


The CityLearn Challenge is an opportunity for researchers from multi-disciplinary fields to investigate the potential of artificial intelligence and distributed control systems to tackle multiple problems within the energy domain.

:notebook: Learn about the Community Contribution Prize
:people_holding_hands: Looking for teammates
:speech_balloon: Join the discord channel to meet other challenge participants like you.

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