Course 01 · Online professional learning
Electricity Systems, Markets & Energy Business
A complete path from electricity fundamentals to grids, markets, project development, finance, M&A and the energy transition.
What will you learn in this energy course?
Understand the physical system, interpret commercial signals and make defensible professional decisions.
Connect electricity fundamentals, generation, grid operation and market prices with renewable technologies, project development, contracts, financing and transactions. The course provides a shared working model for professionals moving across technical and commercial disciplines.
Who is this course for?
Energy professionals, investors, advisers and newcomers who need to understand how the physical electricity system connects to business decisions. The opening modules establish the foundations without assuming an engineering degree.
Explore the 21-module curriculum
Each module contains four lessons, guided learning steps, assessments and a professional exercise. The outline below describes the learning path; full learning activities remain inside the learner experience.
Energy Basics
Electricity is an energy carrier, power measures the rate at which energy is transferred, and energy measures the accumulated quantity over time. Reliable reasoning requires the correct unit, time basis, system boundary and operating condition.
How Electricity Is Generated
Every power plant sells the same commodity, electrical energy, but uses a different conversion chain, has different operating constraints, and produces each additional MWh at a different cost.
The Electricity Grid
The grid is the infrastructure that moves electricity. It must be continuously operated and developed within real limits: current, voltage, temperature, fault level, stability, topology and equipment ratings.
Who Does What in Electricity?
Generation and electricity sales are competitive activities; transmission and distribution are regulated infrastructure monopolies.
Keeping the Grid in Balance
The electricity system must be balanced in real time; electricity cannot be produced today and simply left in the grid for tomorrow.
Why Electricity Needs a Market
The contractual flow of electricity and the physical flow through the grid are different things.
How Electricity Prices Are Formed
In a marginal market, price is not determined by the average cost of all power plants but by the marginal unit needed to satisfy demand.
Day-Ahead, Intraday & Balancing Markets
As delivery approaches, forecasts are progressively replaced by more accurate information.
The European Electricity Market
Prices converge when sufficient transmission capacity is available and diverge when the network becomes congested.
Economics of a Power Plant
Economically, a power plant is a large investment today in exchange for MWh and cash flows over the next 20-30 years.
Solar & Wind Economics
Installed MW do not determine value. Actual MWh multiplied by the achieved capture price creates revenue.
Battery Energy Storage Systems
MW tells us how fast a battery can charge or discharge; MWh tells us how long it can sustain that power.
PPAs, CfDs & Hedging
A PPA does not eliminate risk; it changes the combination of risks borne by the producer and buyer.
European Energy Regulation
The market is competitive, but infrastructure and the rules of the game are heavily regulated.
Grid Connection
Land and technology do not create an energy project; grid connection can determine whether the project exists economically.
Developing an Energy Project
An energy project is not a power plant; it is a coordinated bundle of rights, land, grid, permits, contracts, equipment and capital.
Energy Trading & Portfolio Management
Trading value comes from managing a measured portfolio position and its optionality; every apparent opportunity consumes risk, liquidity or physical flexibility.
Project Finance for Energy
Project finance lends against controlled future project cash flows and enforceable rights, not against an attractive technology or headline IRR alone.
Energy M&A
An energy transaction transfers a changing bundle of rights, obligations, cash flows and risks; price only makes sense after the perimeter, project stage and risk allocation are understood.
Energy Policy & the Energy Transition
The transition is not one policy or one technology; it is a coordinated but contested redesign of emissions, investment, markets, infrastructure, security and distribution.
Beyond Electricity
Electricity becomes the coordinating carrier of a low-carbon system, but efficient integration depends on heat, molecules, mobility, storage, networks and flexible demand, not electrification at any cost.
Access and completion
Individual access costs €175 per course for 12 months from confirmed payment, with no automatic renewal. Company quantity discounts are described on the pricing page. Completion leads to a non-accredited attendance certificate; the course does not confer a regulated qualification or guarantee professional outcomes.
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