Course 09 of 20 · Battery and Flexibility Desk Academy

Revenue Stacking & Capacity Conflicts

Stage B, Market access, dispatch and service commitments. Level 5 of 10.

Allocating one finite capacity and one state of charge across simultaneous competing service commitments, and resolving the conflicts that result.

127 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 03, Course 06, Course 07, Course 08

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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

12 modules · 127 chapters

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

M0 One Asset, Several Buyers Ch 1-10
  1. The Evening Four Buyers All Wanted
  2. The Asset Owner's Seat, and Who Reads It Backwards
  3. Two Scarce Things, Not One
  4. Why Two Commitments Are Not the Sum of Their Reservations
  5. Sold Twice: The Failure This Material Exists to Prevent
  6. Stacking Read as an Allocation Rather Than a Total
  7. What Holding Headroom for One Buyer Takes From Another
  8. Putting Energy Back Is Never Free
  9. Carried In From Courses Three, Six, Seven and Eight
  10. Four Assumptions Labelled Before They Are Used
M1 The Commitment Register Ch 11-21
  1. Every Commitment on One Sheet
  2. The Five Things a Commitment Reserves
  3. A Frequency Response Contract Entered as a Reservation
  4. A Capacity Obligation Entered as a Reservation
  5. A Day-Ahead Block Entered as a Reservation
  6. An Intraday Position Entered as a Reservation
  7. A Reserve Availability Declaration Entered as a Reservation
  8. Firm, Optional and Expected Entries
  9. The Commitment Nobody Wrote Down
  10. Putting a Response Duty and a Traded Block in the Same Units
  11. When the Register Was Last True
M2 The Power Ledger and the Energy Ledger Ch 22-32
  1. Two Ledgers Instead of One Column of Revenue
  2. Discharge Headroom in a Single Settlement Period
  3. Import Room and the Duties That Need the Asset to Absorb
  4. One Buyer Wants Export, Another Wants Import
  5. Megawatt Hours Claimed Across a Window
  6. The State of Charge Path as the Thing Being Planned
  7. Passing the Power Test and Failing the Energy One
  8. How Long a Reservation Must Be Sustainable
  9. Round Trip Loss Inside Every Reservation
  10. Splitting the Rating Between Two Duties and What Is Lost
  11. Both Ledgers Read Together Across One Delivery Day
M3 Finding a Conflict Before Anyone Calls Ch 33-43
  1. A Conflict Lives in a Period, Not in a Contract
  2. The Overlap Scan Across a Delivery Day
  3. A Power Shortfall in One Period, Diagnosed
  4. An Energy Shortfall Across a Response Window, Diagnosed
  5. The Conflict That Appears Only if Both Buyers Call
  6. Notice Periods That Do Not Line Up
  7. A Recharge Window Already Occupied
  8. Services That May Not Be Held Together At All
  9. Latent Conflict Against Live Conflict
  10. Grading a Conflict by What It Would Cost
  11. The Conflict Log and Who Has to Read It
M4 Proving a Plan Feasible Rather Than Attractive Ch 44-54
  1. Attractive and Feasible Are Different Questions
  2. What a Feasibility Statement Has to Contain
  3. The Period by Period Check Nobody May Skip
  4. Proving the Energy Balance Closes
  5. Proving the Trajectory Stays Inside Its Window
  6. The Simultaneous Call Test
  7. The Worst Credible Coincidence, Not the Worst Imaginable One
  8. Which Constraint Binds First
  9. Reading an Infeasibility Back to Its Cause
  10. How Much Slack a Feasible Plan Should Keep
  11. One Plan Proved and One Plan Refused
M5 Priority: Which Commitment Wins Ch 55-65
  1. Priority Decided Before the Call or Decided Badly
  2. Ranking by What Non-Performance Costs
  3. Ranking by Contract Length Rather Than by Price
  4. The Duty That Outranks Everything Because a Rule Says So
  5. Where Reputation Enters a Priority Order
  6. A Strict Order Against a Cost Comparison
  7. Writing the Stacking Policy Down
  8. Who May Override the Order, and on What Evidence
  9. Priority Inside the Hour Against Priority in the Plan
  10. Two Priority Orders on One Conflict
  11. When the Priority Order Is Itself the Argument
M6 The Cost of Holding and the Cost of Letting Go Ch 66-75
  1. A Reservation Priced as the Alternative Forgone
  2. What a Held Megawatt Would Have Earned Elsewhere
  3. Pricing the Stored Energy You Agreed Not to Sell
  4. The Recovery Bill After a Response Is Delivered
  5. Partial Performance and What It Saves
  6. Derating Your Own Offer to Make Room
  7. Declining a Commitment to Preserve Capability
  8. The Revenue Forgone by Declining, Stated Plainly
  9. What an Unresolved Conflict Costs
  10. Four Resolutions Costed on One Conflict
M7 Resolving It: Buy Back, Substitute or Decline Ch 76-86
  1. The Actions Available Once a Conflict Is Real
  2. Buying Back an Availability Obligation
  3. Putting Another Provider in Your Place
  4. Re-declaring Availability Downward Before the Deadline
  5. Trading Out of the Energy Side Instead
  6. Moving a Commitment to a Different Window
  7. Shortening a Duration Commitment by Agreement
  8. Negotiating the Carve-Out Before You Need It
  9. Taking the Penalty as the Cheapest Route
  10. The Resolution That Created the Next Conflict
  11. One Conflict Settled Three Ways
M8 Reserving State of Charge Across Time Ch 87-96
  1. Energy Kept for Later Is Energy Not Sold Now
  2. The Evening Reservation That Costs the Morning
  3. Choosing the Charge Level a Window Requires
  4. How Much Empty Space a Charge Duty Needs
  5. The Refill Window as a Commitment in Its Own Right
  6. When the Refill Hours Are Priced Against You
  7. Restoration Time and the Second Call
  8. A Charge Floor Written Into a Contract
  9. Carrying Charge Across the Day Boundary
  10. Two Reservation Policies Across One Week
M9 The Allowance as a Budget Several Services Spend Ch 97-106
  1. One Allowance, Several Services Spending It
  2. Attributing a Cycle to the Service That Caused It
  3. Equivalent Full Cycles as the Common Unit
  4. Spreading the Annual Allowance Across a Year
  5. The Service That Spends Allowance Without Earning Much
  6. Whether Shallow Cycling Is Actually Cheap
  7. Discovering the Allowance Overspent Halfway Through
  8. Rationing What Is Left
  9. Refusing Work Because the Budget Is Gone
  10. The Allowance Line Added to the Feasibility Proof
M10 The Plan Written Down, Approved and Kept True Ch 107-116
  1. The Revenue Plan as a Document With an Owner
  2. The Three Pages a Stacking Plan Contains
  3. The Evidence an Approver Should Demand
  4. Approving a Plan With a Known Weak Period
  5. Re-Proving After One New Sale
  6. Change Control on a Live Stack
  7. What an Optimiser May Change Without Asking
  8. Reporting the Stack Upward Without Overstating It
  9. Explaining a Declined Commitment to a Commercial Director
  10. Handing the Plan to the People Who Settle It
M11 A Worked Allocation and What It Cannot Do Ch 117-127
  1. The Asset, the Four Commitments and the Week
  2. The Worked Week, Part One: Register and Ledgers
  3. The Worked Week, Part Two: The Conflicts Found
  4. The Worked Week, Part Three: Priority Applied
  5. The Worked Week, Part Four: The Buy-Back Decided
  6. The Worked Week, Part Five: The Plan Proved
  7. The Worked Week, Part Six: How It Actually Ran
  8. The Same Week Without the Feasibility Test
  9. A Stack That Passed Every Test and Still Failed
  10. The Honest Limits of Single-Asset Allocation
  11. Where a Proved Allocation Goes Next

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