Complete Course 01 curriculum
From electricity fundamentals to energy business judgment.
Twenty one connected modules turn the physical system, markets, projects, finance, regulation and transactions into one coherent professional learning path.
- 21
- connected modules
- 6
- progressive levels
- 63+
- hours of guided learning
Level 1
Level 1
Build the physical vocabulary of electricity, generation and networks.
Energy Basics
How should we reason about electricity, power and energy?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 150
- minutes
How Electricity Is Generated
How do we transform different energy sources into electricity?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 150
- minutes
The Electricity Grid
How does electricity travel from a power plant to a consumer?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 155
- minutes
Level 2
How the Electricity System Works
Understand the actors and real time operation that keep the system secure.
Level 3
Electricity Markets
Follow electricity through trading timeframes, price formation and European market coupling.
Why Electricity Needs a Market
Why do we need an electricity market, and what is actually traded?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 160
- minutes
How Electricity Prices Are Formed
Why does electricity cost EUR 20/MWh in one hour and EUR 200/MWh in another?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 165
- minutes
Day-Ahead, Intraday & Balancing Markets
How is electricity bought and sold before the moment of delivery?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 165
- minutes
The European Electricity Market
How can 27 national systems function as a European market?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 170
- minutes
Level 4
Energy Technologies & Economics
Compare technologies through production, flexibility, cost, revenue and system value.
Economics of a Power Plant
How does a power plant make money?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 175
- minutes
Solar & Wind Economics
Why can two 100 MW projects have completely different values?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 180
- minutes
Battery Energy Storage Systems
What does a battery actually do in the electricity system, and how does it earn money?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 185
- minutes
PPAs, CfDs & Hedging
How do generators manage electricity price risk?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 180
- minutes
Level 5
Regulation, Grid & Project Development
Move an asset through regulation, grid connection and the project development chain.
European Energy Regulation
Who sets the rules, and how do EU rules affect a specific power plant?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 190
- minutes
Grid Connection
How does a project obtain the real right and capability to connect to the electricity grid?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 195
- minutes
Developing an Energy Project
How do we transform a site into an operating energy asset?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 220
- minutes
Level 6
Energy Business Masterclass
Integrate trading, finance, transactions, policy and the wider energy transition.
Energy Trading & Portfolio Management
How do traders transform market volatility into opportunity while controlling risk?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 200
- minutes
Project Finance for Energy
How does a bank decide whether it can finance an energy project?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 205
- minutes
Energy M&A
How is an energy project bought and sold?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 210
- minutes
Energy Policy & the Energy Transition
Why is the European energy system changing so fast?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 205
- minutes
Beyond Electricity
How does electricity connect to the entire energy system?
- 4
- lessons
- 8
- guided steps
- 210
- minutes
Move beyond the preview
Learn the concept, apply it and defend the decision.
The learner experience adds guided decisions, explanatory feedback, a mastery assessment and a professional challenge to every module.