Course 07 of 20 · Battery and Flexibility Desk Academy

Day-Ahead & Intraday Battery Trading

Stage B, Market access, dispatch and service commitments. Level 4 of 10.

Bidding and repositioning a state-of-charge constrained asset across day-ahead and intraday sessions, including re-optimisation as prices move.

118 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 05, Course 06

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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 · 118 chapters

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

M0 The Asset That Trades Its Own Capability Ch 1-11
  1. Why a Store Cannot Offer Like a Generator
  2. Charging Is Buying and Discharging Is Selling
  3. State of Charge as a Running Balance
  4. The Settlement Clock This Material Uses
  5. The Seat a Storage Trader Occupies
  6. Two Sessions Drawing on One Store
  7. Why Your Purchase and Your Sale Clear Apart
  8. Buying More Than You Will Ever Sell
  9. A Day's Throughput as a Spending Limit
  10. Plan, Position and Instruction Kept Apart
  11. What the Earlier Courses Hand This Desk
M1 Building the Feasible Day Before You Bid Ch 12-22
  1. The Opening Balance You Inherit at Midnight
  2. The Energy Band Trading Must Stay Inside
  3. Testing Feasibility at Every Period Boundary
  4. One Cycle, Two Cycles or None at All
  5. Picking the Periods You Intend to Buy In
  6. Picking the Periods You Intend to Sell In
  7. The Gap a Cycle Has to Clear to Be Worth Doing
  8. Ranking Pairs of Periods Rather Than Periods
  9. Holding Charge Back for an Expected Evening
  10. A Plan That Breaches Three Periods In
  11. A Feasible Day Built From One Opening Figure
M2 Translating the Plan Into Day-Ahead Orders Ch 23-33
  1. A Cycle Submitted as One Intention, Not Two Orders
  2. The Cut Purchase That Leaves You Half Charged
  3. Tying the Two Legs So Neither Clears Alone
  4. Selling Energy You Have Not Yet Bought
  5. Buying Charge Before the Sale Is Agreed
  6. What the Lowest Acceptable Selling Level Rests On
  7. What the Highest Acceptable Buying Level Rests On
  8. Fills That Add Up to an Impossible Schedule
  9. Leaving Periods Out of the Submission on Purpose
  10. Bidding When Tonight's Closing Balance Is Unknown
  11. An Order Set Read Back as a Charge Profile
M3 Reading the Clearing as a Changed Store Ch 34-43
  1. Rebuilding the Charge Trajectory From Your Fills
  2. Both Legs Taken and the Day Still Works
  3. Sold the Discharge, Missed the Charge
  4. Bought the Charge, Missed the Discharge
  5. A Trimmed Sale and the Charge You No Longer Need
  6. Fills That Would Push the Store Past Full
  7. Fills That Empty the Store Before the Peak
  8. The Throughput the Result Has Already Committed
  9. Two Delivery Days Sharing One Store
  10. A Result Turned Into Tomorrow's Opening Figure
M4 Revisions That Matter to a Store Ch 44-53
  1. A Store Has No Output Forecast to Revise
  2. The Shape Flattens and the Cycle Loses Its Point
  3. The Gap Widens in Periods Already Sold
  4. A New Peak Where You Hold Nothing
  5. Measured Charge Against the Figure You Assumed
  6. Auxiliary Draw and the Energy Nobody Sold
  7. A Thermal Derate That Shortens Your Duration
  8. A Fault That Caps Rate but Not Quantity
  9. What Waiting Costs a Full Store
  10. One Revision Turned Into a New Feasible Set
M5 Repositioning the Store Ch 54-65
  1. Buying Back a Discharge You Sold
  2. Selling Back Charge You Bought
  3. Shifting a Sale From One Period to Another
  4. Shifting a Purchase Earlier or Later
  5. Adding a Round Trip Inside the Day
  6. Unwinding a Round Trip and Getting the Allowance Back
  7. Selling More From Energy Already Stored
  8. Why Discharging Less Than You Sold Leaves a Short
  9. Every Repositioning Trade Moves Two Ledgers
  10. Affordable on Cash and Impossible on Charge
  11. Repositioning Trades That Depend on Each Other
  12. Three Repositioning Trades Across One Afternoon
M6 The Venue From a Store's Seat Ch 66-75
  1. A Cycle Is Two Legs in Two Books
  2. Which Leg to Fill First
  3. The Round Trip You Can Actually Transact
  4. Half Legged and Holding the Other Side
  5. A Thin Charging Window and a Busy Selling One
  6. Finer Products Against a Coarser Charge Plan
  7. A Block Product That Covers a Whole Discharge
  8. The Leg That Closes Before Its Pair
  9. Sourcing Charging Energy Directly From a Counterparty
  10. A Legged Execution Against a Closing Window
M7 Views a Store Trades On Ch 76-85
  1. A Store Trades the Difference, Not the Level
  2. The Uniform Rise That Only Hurts an Unlegged Cycle
  3. Today's Difference Against Last Night's Cleared One
  4. The Difference That Shrinks Toward Delivery
  5. Keeping Energy for a Window That May Not Come
  6. Paid to Charge and Charged to Discharge
  7. A Period Priced for Scarcity and an Empty Asset
  8. Deciding Early on a Weak Signal
  9. Writing the Spread View Down Before Acting
  10. Right About the Gap and Wrong About the Hour
M8 Constraints Binding Inside the Day Ch 86-96
  1. Rating Limits the Period, Capacity Limits the Day
  2. The Turnaround Between Buying and Selling
  3. Buying and Selling Inside the Same Period
  4. An Export Cap Over a Sale Already Made
  5. An Import Cap Over a Purchase Already Made
  6. Reaching the Lower Limit Before the Last Sale
  7. Spending the Day's Allowance Before Lunch
  8. Charging Across a Network Charging Band
  9. Capacity You Have Already Promised Elsewhere
  10. Two Limits Binding in the Same Period
  11. A Day Where Stored Quantity Was the Binding Limit
M9 Control, Record and Authority Ch 97-106
  1. A Trading Limit Written in Stored Energy
  2. The Floor Below Which the Desk May Not Sell
  3. Reserving Charge by Rule Rather Than Judgement
  4. Who May Reopen the Charge Plan Mid-Day
  5. Recording Why the Store Was Left Empty
  6. Trading on What Only You Know About the Store
  7. A Live Order After the Charge Was Spent
  8. Reconciling the Traded Book Against the Metered Store
  9. Handing Over a Store in Mid-Cycle
  10. One Repositioning Error and What It Cost
M10 Two Worked Days and the Limits Ch 107-118
  1. The Worked Day, Part One: Opening Charge and Submitted Orders
  2. The Worked Day, Part Two: A Clearing That Took One Leg
  3. The Worked Day, Part Three: Buying the Missing Charge
  4. The Worked Day, Part Four: The Gap Moves and the Plan Reopens
  5. The Worked Day, Part Five: The Last Tradeable Period
  6. The Worked Day Reviewed Against the Charge It Spent
  7. A Second Day on Which the Store Should Not Have Cycled
  8. A Day of Two Round Trips With a Narrow Join
  9. Scoring a Day Without Flattering the Trades You Made
  10. What Trading a Store This Way Cannot Fix
  11. Where These Threads Are Picked Up Later
  12. The Capability a Storage Trader Now Holds

The brochure gives each of these 118 chapters a paragraph on what it covers and what you can do once you have worked through it.

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