Course 05 of 20 · Battery and Flexibility Desk Academy

Revenue Streams & Market Access

Stage B, Market access, dispatch and service commitments. Level 3 of 10.

The catalogue of flexibility revenue streams and the market access, registration and qualification route to each one.

120 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 01, Course 02, Course 04

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

11 modules · 120 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 A Catalogue of Streams and the Routes Into Them Ch 1-10
  1. What Makes a Payment a Revenue Stream
  2. The Seat Every Screen in This Catalogue Sits In
  3. Why the Catalogue Comes After the Operating Limits
  4. A Stream, a Route and a Gate Are Three Things
  5. Every Service Named Here Belongs to a Named Market
  6. Products Get Renamed, Merged and Withdrawn
  7. Eligible, Qualified and Contracted Are Not the Same
  8. The Vocabulary Market Access Runs On
  9. What a Catalogue of Streams Cannot Tell You
  10. Reading an Asset Sheet for Eligibility Facts
M1 The Legal Identity a Flexibility Asset Needs Ch 11-21
  1. Generator, Consumer or Something Else Entirely
  2. Energy Storage as a Defined Category in European Law
  3. Licensing a Storage Asset in Great Britain
  4. The Order That Forced Storage Participation Models in the United States
  5. Small Resources Reaching a Wholesale Market
  6. Participant Categories in the Australian Market
  7. Storage in India's Regulatory Classification
  8. Who Is Allowed to Own the Asset at All
  9. Connected to the Transmission System or the Distribution System
  10. In Front of the Meter or Behind It
  11. The Classification of the Energy You Import
M2 Registering for Market Access Ch 22-33
  1. Acceding to the Rulebooks Before Anything Else
  2. Becoming a Recognised Party in a Market
  3. The Identifiers a Market Issues You
  4. How a Storage Asset Becomes a Registered Resource
  5. Charge and Discharge: One Registration or Two
  6. Metering the Market Will Accept Data From
  7. The Control Link an Operator Instructs You Through
  8. The Witnessed Test That Converts Capability Into Qualification
  9. Credit Cover Lodged Before You May Transact
  10. Exchange and Clearing Membership as a Separate Door
  11. The Registration Calendar and the Lead Times On It
  12. Registering Yourself or Going Through Another Party
M3 Wholesale Energy Streams Ch 34-44
  1. Buying Cheap and Selling Dear as a Named Stream
  2. The Day-Ahead Auction as a Point of Sale
  3. Continuous Trading Through the Delivery Day
  4. Selling Flexibility Into a Balancing Market
  5. Imbalance Responsibility Arrives With the Access
  6. Being Paid to Charge When Prices Go Below Zero
  7. Payments for Not Exporting
  8. A Fixed Price for Flexibility Sold Bilaterally
  9. Which Wholesale Products a Short-Duration Asset Can Reach
  10. Reaching a Coupled Market Across a Border
  11. Assembling the Access Pack for Wholesale Streams
M4 Frequency Streams and Whether an Asset Qualifies Ch 45-56
  1. Why Frequency Products Suit a Storage Asset
  2. The Fast Frequency Family, Market by Market
  3. Frequency Containment, Restoration and Replacement in Europe
  4. Prequalifying for German Balancing Tenders
  5. Regulation Service in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Market
  6. Frequency Control Ancillary Services in the National Electricity Market
  7. Reserve Services in the Texas Market
  8. Offering One Direction or Both
  9. The Stored Energy a Frequency Contract Obliges You to Reserve
  10. Minimum Bid Size, Divisibility and Pooling
  11. The Response Market Saturation Argument and Its Assumptions
  12. Screening One Asset Against Four Frequency Products
M5 Reserve, Restoration and Stand-By Streams Ch 57-67
  1. Reserve Products Ask More of Duration Than of Speed
  2. Manual and Replacement Reserve Access in Europe
  3. Reserve Products Written Around Spinning Plant
  4. Quick and Slow Reserve Procurement in Great Britain
  5. Energy-Limited Resources and How Operators Treat Them
  6. Standing Reserve and the Stream That Is Rarely Called
  7. Can a Battery Qualify to Restart a Grid
  8. Inertia, Fast Response and Grid-Forming Capability
  9. Reactive Power and Voltage Support From an Inverter
  10. Qualifying for Two Reserve Tiers at Once
  11. Mapping Reserve Streams Against a Four-Hour Asset
M6 Capacity and Reliability Streams Ch 68-77
  1. A Payment for Being There in a Future Year
  2. What a Duration-Limited Asset Is Credited With
  3. The Capacity Market Entry Route in Great Britain
  4. Reliability Accreditation in United States Capacity Constructs
  5. Agreement Length and the Door a New Project Uses
  6. Support Schemes Aimed at Long-Duration Storage
  7. Out-of-Market Reserve Contracts and Who May Hold One
  8. Reliability Streams Where No Capacity Market Exists
  9. The Duration Derating Argument and Its Assumptions
  10. Deciding Whether to Enter a Capacity Auction at All
M7 Network and Local Flexibility Streams Ch 78-89
  1. The Network Company as a Buyer in Its Own Right
  2. Distribution Flexibility Services in Great Britain
  3. Marketplaces That Sit Between Asset and Network
  4. Italy's Dispatching Services Market and Mixed Virtual Units
  5. Being Paid to Sit on the Right Side of a Constraint
  6. A Curtailable Connection Is Access, Not Revenue
  7. Deferred Reinforcement and the Buyer's Real Motive
  8. Why Local Value Stays Where the Network Needs It
  9. Avoiding a Network Charge as a Stream
  10. How Local Flexibility Is Actually Procured
  11. Qualifying for a Local Flexibility Tender
  12. Screening a Distribution-Connected Asset for Local Streams
M8 Streams From the Site and the Customer Behind It Ch 90-99
  1. A Bill Is the Buyer When There Is No Market
  2. Managing a Demand Charge at an Industrial Site
  3. Resilience and Backup Sold as a Service
  4. Storing Co-Located Output for a Better Hour
  5. Does an Attribute Certificate Survive Being Stored
  6. A Stream Created by an Export Limit
  7. Bidirectional Vehicles and Depot Assets
  8. Supplying a Defined Area From Storage
  9. Which Site Streams Still Need Market Registration
  10. Screening One Industrial Site for Behind-the-Meter Streams
M9 Qualifying One Asset Against the Whole Catalogue Ch 100-110
  1. Building an Eligibility Matrix
  2. The Illustrative Assets This Screen Uses
  3. Screening the Short-Duration Transmission-Connected Asset
  4. Screening the Long-Duration Asset
  5. Screening the Asset Behind a Constrained Substation
  6. When the Matrix Answers Maybe
  7. The Registration Critical Path
  8. The Gate Everybody Underestimates
  9. Costing the Route In Rather Than the Stream
  10. The Stream Shortlist Document
  11. Presenting a Shortlist Without Overclaiming
M10 Reform, Durability and the Limits of a Catalogue Ch 111-120
  1. Extracting the Eligibility Test From a New Product Document
  2. A Product Family Rewritten Between Procurement Rounds
  3. When a Stream You Qualified For Disappears
  4. Two Assets Registered a Year Apart Under Different Rules
  5. The Stream Register and the Date Written On It
  6. The Revenue Durability Argument and Its Assumptions
  7. Charging and Levy Reform as an Access Risk
  8. What Eligibility Does Not Guarantee
  9. Three Questions Before Entering an Unfamiliar Market
  10. What This Catalogue Hands to the Courses After It

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